{"id":1896,"date":"2018-04-22T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activedirectorypro.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:09:55","slug":"rdp-connection-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activedirectorypro.com\/rdp-connection-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Best Remote Desktop Connection Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you looking for the best remote desktop connection manager?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you’re in the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a System Administrator, it is common to establish multiple RDP connections on a day to day basis. You may also make other daily connections like SSH or telnet to manage and troubleshoot network equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To manually establish these connections over and over again is a major pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many times a day do you enter in your credentials? Somedays I could end up making 50+ connections a day. That’s 50+ times I manually enter in my credentials to make a remote connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why I started using a remote desktop connection manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It saves me time and is much more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of RDP Connection Managers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a look at some of the best remote connection managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. mRemoteNG<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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mRemoteNG is a multi tab remote connection manager. Just like RDCman it is a centralized tool that manages connections to remote systems. mRemoteNG has many features that RDCman does not have such as the ability to manage different connection types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to RDP, it supports VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin and Http\/S protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tab feature comes in handy when you open multiple sessions and need to jump back and forth between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More features include, easy to organize and maintain a list of connections, store credentials for auto logons, importing from Active Directory, fullscreen mode, allows for grouping and nesting folders, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really like this tool, it is easy to use and has a clean interface. I can group together all server connections and create separate groups for all other types of connections like SSH. MRemoteNG is also a very popular Windows SSH client<\/a> and has a tabbed interface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. DameWare Mini Remote Control<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Damware<\/a> is a tool primarily used by help desk staff and support technicians to easily establish connections with end user devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main difference between this and an RDP connection manager is it allows the screen to be shared. With RDP the remote system will log off so you can’t share the screen with the end user. That’s why RDP managers are best for servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damware is supported on multiple platforms and allows remote control of Windows, Linux, and Mac computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional Features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n