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Multiple RDP Consoles — Who Knew ?

January 29, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments 

I have been work­ing with Windows folks for a long time, and I have not seen this tool used before. As a net­work­ing guy maybe I missed it.

I often deploy a num­ber of Windows serv­ers to mon­itor and man­age net­works (typ­ic­ally with open source and Ciscoworks). I recently dis­covered the MMC Snap-​​in for Remote Desktops which makes my life sim­pler by let­ting you switch between many con­soles at once on a Windows desktop. This is a quick over­view on how to con­fig­ure this for yourself.

First you need to have the Windows Server Administration Tools installed onto your desktop, and you can down­load them with the foll­wing URLs:

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools Pack for x86 edi­tions

Windows Server 2003 Server ADmin SP1

To add the Remote Desktops snap-​​in
1. Run MMC by doing one of the following:

  • Click Start, click Run, type mmc, and then click OK.
  • At a com­mand prompt, type mmc, and then press ENTER

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2. On the Console menu, click File, and then click Add/​Remove Snap-​​in.

3. In the dia­log box that opens, click Add. In the Available Standalone Snap-​​ins list, click Remote Desktops.

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4. Click Add, and then click Close.

5. Click OK to close the Add/​Remove Snap-​​in dia­log box

Note
• You can also open the Remote Desktops snap-​​in from the Administrative Tools folder in Control Panel. To open Remote Desktops, click Start, click Control Panel, double-​​click Administrative Tools, and then double-​​click Remote Desktops.

Now we need to con­fig­ure a desktop ses­sion, a couple of quick screen­shots for you to see

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and now we have mul­tiple ses­sions, and the abil­ity to switch between each ses­sions without exit­ing and restarting

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Please com­ment if this art­icle was use­ful. I would like to hear from you.

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4 Responses to “Multiple RDP Consoles — Who Knew ?”
  1. Christian says:
    8 March 2008 at 19:22

    Here’s an even cooler one that one of our win­dows engin­eers showed me

    http://​www​.vis​ionapp​.com/​141.0.html?

    vis­ionapp remote desktop

    Reply
  2. Jeremy L. Gaddis says:
    21 March 2009 at 00:23

    I’m a big fan of “Royal TS”, myself.

    Reply
  3. Ivan Brunello says:
    25 January 2010 at 12:41

    If you have .net already installed, ter­min­als is also a good program.

    From the MS-​​related open­source (!) repository

    http://​www​.code​plex​.com/Terminals

    Reply

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