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Welcome to PureRDS.org! This site is dedicated to the admins in the trenches who maintain pure Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Windows Virtual Desktop deployments, with few to little third-party add-ons. While Citrix often gets all the press for its XenApp / XenDesktop offerings, there is an ever growing community of small to medium sized shops who run Microsoft RDS only.

From your Windows PC, access the Microsoft Remote Desktop assistant to configure it for remote access from another device using the Remote Desktop apps for Windows, macOS, iOS or Android. Email myself a link to the Microsoft Remote Desktop Assistant. We're increasing our investments in virtualization and remote desktops, such as Windows Virtual Desktop and RDS on Microsoft Azure. RDCMan is a client that is widely used to manage multiple remote desktop connections because it's a convenient option. However, RDCMan has not kept pace with the level of advanced technology that we're pursuing. Dec 09, 2020 Microsoft Remote Desktop Free utility provided by Microsoft that enables remote desktop access to devices running Windows. Remmina Completely free for individuals and businesses – this is an open-source project and Linux users’ favorite. Remote Desktop Console & Agent Remote desktop software has two components.

Windows Server 2012 introduced radical changes to Remote Desktop Services, so now more than ever Remote Desktop admins need an abundance of help with RDS and WVD, including the latest PowerShell scripts, hacks, management tools, and tricks to keep their farms up and running. Use the navigation menus up above and to your left to start leveraging all the resources this site has to offer.

What is PureRDS.org?

PureRDS.org is the brainchild of Andy Milford, CEO and Founder of RDPSoft, an independent software vendor (ISV) dedicated to building highly-affordable Citrix/RDS monitoring and management tools for small and mid-sized organizations. Andy is a Microsoft MVP in the Enterprise Mobility – Remote Desktop Services area, who speaks and blogs frequently on Remote Desktop Services and emerging technologies in the EUC (End User Computing) space. PureRDS.org is his primary portal for technical community outreach in the spirit of the Microsoft MVP award. All opinions expressed here are exclusively his own.

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The Remote tool, Remote.exe, is a command-line tool that lets you run and control any console program from a remote computer.

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Where to get the Remote tool

Remote.exe is included in Debugging Tools for Windows.

Remote tool components

The Remote tool includes the following components:

A server application that starts a console program and opens a named pipe for client connections.
A client application that establishes a connection to a server. Commands typed on the client computer are sent to the console application on the server, and the remote client displays the output from the server's console window.
A query feature that lists the remote sessions running on a server computer.

With the Remote tool, you can start multiple server sessions on a single computer where multiple clients can connect to each session. The sessions are limited only by the computer's resources.

This is an older tool that has been eclipsed by more sophisticated tools, primarily Remote Desktop. However, because it is simple and uses very few resources, it is still widely used, typically for remote debugging.

The Remote tool requires that commands be submitted on both the local and remote computers. As such, to use this tool on a computer without a local user, you must develop an alternate way to submit the commands and to restart the computer, if necessary.