Remote Desktop Manager: Oldie Goldie

I am deeply dependent on having a decent remote desktop connection tool, that allows to organize and save machine into groups, as well as store corresponding usernames. Learning today that mRemote is being discontinued, I was concerned and researched the Web for an alternative. The first one was of course the open source spin-off project from mRemote called mRemoteNG (next generation). But it’s not appealing because of the simple chance of that project also ending and having to go through the motions of migrating all catalogued machines to yet another manager.

There was the possibility of using the RoyalTS manager, but on it’s shareware version it only supports up to 10 connections. It’s not nearly enough for my needs. So I got back to basics and found a pearl from back in 2010: Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager.

It’s a full fledged remote desktop connection manager with a tree organization interface, desktop thumbnail previews and some other very interesting features. For a full review on this tool, you might want to check out this post.