Editor's review
A remote desktop manager to manage many different types of remote connections.
Features: As its self descriptive name suggest Remote Desktop Manager is tool to manage all Remote Desktop connections. In fact, Remote Desktop Manager goes beyond its name because it provides a centralized location for managing any kind of remote connection including command line Telnet style connections, shells and of course graphical Remote Desktops or X-Window-Servers. It has in-built support for Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, LogMeIn, Team Viewer, FTP (including FTP explorer, FileZilla, and WinSCP), the X-Window system, Putty (SSH, Telnet, RAW, and rLogin), Dameware Mini Remote Control, Radmin Viewer, Citrix XenApp, Symantec PC Anywhere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual PC, VMWARE player, and Microsoft Terminal Services. It automatically connects to a Microsoft or Cisco based VPN.
Other features include: support for dual desktop; the ability to share settings between users; automatic updates; search filtering; a number of basic network management functions (PING, Traceroute, Wake on LAN); Quick-connect options; the ability to add a name and image to a particular configuration to make it easily distinguishable; Importing, exporting, dragging and dropping of remote desktop files (.rdp) and logmein shortcuts; program automatically starts up on Windows startup; Opened sessions view as well as most recently used view; and external, embedded, MDI or tabbed sessions.
The interface is really nice providing a nice logical view of all the connections that you have made (and which have been saved) categorized by domain, by place, by geographical location and more. Clicking on a given connection brings up the details for that particular connection on a right side pane.
Overall: This is an excellent tool for managing remote connections of all kinds. It is compatible with a wide variety of standard remote connection protocols, standards and applications, and it provides a centralized location from where one can access each of those remote connection technologies as well as store all the required information for future use. There is no longer any need to rely on a bevy of solutions, instead just rely on Remote Desktop Manager and it will take care of the appropriate underlying technology. Plus, it has a nice logical and attractive interface. All in all, a wonderful tool.
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