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Introducing the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Mac – Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/11

During the last update of Microsoft Remote Desktop for my Mac, I noticed there is a beta available with a feature very familiar for users of visionapp – ASG-Remote Desktop: it allows you to manage common credentials.

Note the uncommon URLs of both the beta page redirect and the download:

In the mean time, I learned that “Microsoft has acquired HockeyApp. This is a tremendous opportunity to continue to provide developers with the best app development tools and users with the best app experiences.”, but the aka.ms is new to me. Anyone knows what it is about? A successor of go.microsoft.com/fwlink redirects?

New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.

New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.

I’m keeping an eye on this, as future features interest me much: Multiple monitors, Clipboard redirection, Remote Desktop Gateway, Remote Resources (RemoteApp and Desktop Connections), and Azure RemoteApp preview.

BTW: I wasn’t aware Remote Desktop made it this many platforms yet, as I’m mainly a Windows 8.x/7, Mac and Android user, but here you go:

  1. Windows 10 Universal Windows platform (Preview).
  2. Windows 8.1.
  3. Windows Phone.
  4. iOS.
  5. Mac OS X.
  6. Android.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows | 1 Comment »

ICA client keyboard shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/07

Too bad the Citrix Receiver remaps the keyboard shortcuts in a way that keyboards without a numeric keypad is a pain.

First of all, it was a bit tough to find the shortcuts, and I have not found a way to modify them.

Here is what I did find:

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Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Breaking Out of Citrix and other Restricted Desktop Environments Pen Test Partners

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/04

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Breaking Out of Citrix and other Restricted Desktop Environments Pen Test Partners.

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MSTSC/Remote Desktop Connection .RDP and Registry Settings links

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/24

Before I forget:

Got there because I lost the “Connection Bar” of MSTSC, and this solved it:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client
"PinConnectionBar" = REG_DWORD:1

Will make the connection bar pinned.

–jeroen

via: Connection bar stay pinned.

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Fixing Inverted Caps Lock on VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/10

Every now and then my Mac RDP program will suddenly turn on the CAPS LOCK on the connected Windows terminal.

It happens on different OS X versions, and different Windows versions. I haven’t figured out the steps to reproduce yet. I will amend this post when I have (:

I also have it occasionally fail when I RDP from a physical Windows system to another Windows system, but far less than from Mac OS X.

You work around it using the On Screen Keyboard tool in Windows like Josh Adams explains:

  • launch the On-screen Keyboard application (generally this can be done by choosing Start ==> All Programs ==> Accessories ==> Accessibility ==> On-screen Keyboard; as noted by DrFooMod2 in a comment below, you can also bring up the On-screen Keyboard by typing “osk” without the quotes in the Windows Run… box) and
  • toggle Caps Lock by clicking on the virtual “lock” button in the application.
  • The On-screen Keyboard application shows–and can change–the state of Caps Lock

The easiest way to start the On Screen Keyboard is to create a shortcut to this:

%windir%\system32\osk.exe

–jeroen

via: Josh Adams’s Blog: Fixing Inverted Caps Lock on VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Remote Desktop.

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows | 1 Comment »

Mac function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop (Windows RDP/MSTSC) – MacRumors Forums

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/24

The F keys on a Mac still perform the Mac OS X specific function, even in a full screen RDP session, but you can get their Windows functionality back with ease as MacRumors user blindzombie shows:

I got it to work with fn – command – F9

or just command – F9 if you set your keyboard preferences to use F1, F2, etc as standard function key

–jeroen

via function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop – MacRumors Forums.

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Know your enemy: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03

All software and protocols has weak points, so it is good to know about the weak points on MSTSC and the RDP protocol: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit.

–jeroen

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rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client (open source, runs on X, hosted on sf.net)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/02

Very interesting, especially since rdesktop.org works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 as well, and is stable on x64.

It provides three tools: rdesktop, rdpproxy and seamlessrdp.

Researching this, I also found about TSWindowClipper which allows you to seamlessly integrates remote apps on your client by integrating a DLL inside the MSTSC software using the official virtual channels.

Back to rdesktop: I really wish the documentation was better, but it contains some very interesting source code.

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.

rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), version 3. Please send feedback, bug reports and patches to the appropriate mailing list. Patches can also be submitted to the SF patch tracker.

rdesktop is a project. See the Sourceforge rdesktop project info and the Wiki for more information.

Status

The latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.7.1 (edit: this was at the time of writing, for the current latest, check here). This versions solves major issues with 64bit version and smartcard support among a few minor fixes.

–jeroen

via rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.

Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

performance – How is TeamViewer so fast? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/07

Interesting Q/A thread because it mentions quite a few alternatives next to the well known TeamViewer, RDP, VNC combo.

--jeroen

via:  performance – How is TeamViewer so fast? – Stack Overflow.

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Enable Remote Desktop Connection on Vista Home Premium | frans goes blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/24

Enable Remote Desktop Connection on Vista Home Premium | frans goes blog.

Great as it has steps both for Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, and steps for Vista RTM.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »

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