The Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager is one of the most published secrets I have finally come across. This is one of the most useful tools I have found in a long time, and it has been available for years. Perhaps you have already found it; but I have introduced it to a few people already the last couple of weeks who had not seen it before, and they all had the same experience as I did: COOL!
So, what is this Remote Desktop Manger, and what does it do? Remote desktop manager is a self organized tree structure of remote desktop connections. You can define your remote servers in any hierarchical structure that make sense for you. When you click on a container it shows all servers in a large content pane. Connecting to a server opens a connection to that server, and shows it in the content pane. You can expand or shrink it.
This is great from people like me who work with multiple servers throughout the day. I’m able to open my Remote Desktop Manager and see my servers, connect to them, and move back and forth from server to server by selecting it in the tree as my workflow demands.
This tool has saved a great amount of time when working across multiple servers concurrently. You can find Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101. The tool is in already in version 2.2 and has been stable for me these last two weeks.
Check out Stuart Leeks blog for more details and some screen shots.
Cheers,
Ben