I have had a wide screen laptop for some time. One major issue I had with it when using RDP to connect to a remote machine was when I would go from full screen mode to windowed mode and then tried to go back to full screen mode it would chop off the sides like a wide screen TV without a wide screen signal, very very annoying. The way around it was to close the client out and restart the connection to the remote machine but before connecting you have to go into the options and adjust the screen size again.
The new RDP client doesn’t do it and I was shocked when I stumbled upon it. Quite nice.
I suppose there is a reason to praise Microsoft. What I’d rather though, is that they not have the problem in the first place, but I’m dreaming.
How’s things, Joe?
LOL.
The last paragraph that was initially in that post was…
I really wish I wasn’t impressed by this as it should have worked right in the first place, wide screen monitors are not all that new and even still, the system knows the dimensions of the screen and if you say full screen, it should know how to do it properly. The fact that I am impressed shows that my expectations are being lowered when at a time they should be getting raised as we get better and better at this stuff.
But I chopped it as it seemed a little grumpy and could have been reflecting my general grumpiness lately from working too much and having to deal with folks who are supposed to be level 3 that absolutely are not level 3. Whoever thought you could do L3 out of Bangalore in a low cost center needs to be smacked.
It’s slower to use from a end user perspective – the providing authentication data ahead of time, waiting, then accepting the security warning, then typing auth data in again for win2k servers.
Be sure to run /? and check out the new /span switch.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2006/11/10/multi-monitor-support-in-the-vista-ts-client.aspx
Have any of you used the RDP client from Visionapp.com (http://www.visionapp.com/111.0.html)?
It doesn’t support the security features provided by the new RDP client, nor does it support going from fullscreen mode to windowed-mode without restarting the session.
However, it does support tabs which makes it a really nice client if you have to support a lot of servers on a daily basis. Think of it as the Firefox of RDP clients.
The reason I started using this application was because of the new Windows RDP client requiring me to enter my authentication data twice every time I connected to a server.
Thankfully, you can override all those settings to get it back to the way it was. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=895433 talks about setting the AuthenticationLevelOverride in your client registry to 0. So I’m at least back to a point where I only get prompted for credentials by the RDP client once for the first time I connect to a server I haven’t TSed into before. I have it save the credentials with a valid username but blank password, so the next time I TS to that same box I end up directly at the TS logon prompt, without any RDP client prompts.
Good find, Dave. However, I’m really liking this visionapp client so I’ll probably stick with it. Oh yeah, another reason I like it is because it gives me a list of clients I can connect to on the left. Before I had a separate shortcut for each server in a drop down menu on my task bar.