Viewing Articles with the tag: remote-desktop
Terminals: A Quick Look
11.Jun.08 | 5 Comments
Last summer I discovered Royal TS, a slick utility to manage multiple Remote Desktop connections to multiple machines. Ever since then it has been been almost a daily player in my typical day’s toolbox.
Somewhere along the line I also learned about Terminals which, at first glance, appears pretty similar to Royal TS in an ugly [...]
XP Service Pack 3 — Remote Desktop Change
13.May.08 | 1 Comment
If you’re an XP user used to using the /console switch to manage your servers, be aware that going to Service Pack 3 will alter your Remote Desktop options a bit.
Specifically, you’ll now need to use the /admin switch instead.
This makes it very similar to using Remote Desktop with Vista, as I discovered earlier this [...]
Microsoft Mesh Beta: First Look
26.Apr.08 | 5 Comments
Last Monday the Mesh Team blog announced the “Technology Preview” for Windows Live Mesh.
What’s Mesh? Well think of it as a combination of FolderShare, Hamachi, Remote Desktop or LogMeIn and any number of web based desktops and storage systems (remember SkyDrive?). The post announcing it has an apt paragraph summing it up:
I don’t know [...]
In Which I Confess to Duncity
25.Apr.08 | 5 Comments
Is duncity a word? The act of being a dunce?
Today I learned something new!
For as long as I’ve been connecting to WinXP machines with Remote Desktop, I’ve been whining about a pain in the butt it is to remotely reboot an XP box. I mean seriously, here’s the start menu options when in a remote [...]
I’m InTouch - Remote Access - A Quick Look
13.Apr.08 | Leave a Comment
Several months ago I wrote an article on Mobile Management and listed out some of the services or apps I’d been using to manage machines from my HTC Mogul phone. At the time, I was definitely a fan of LogMeIn’s service.
In fact, I still am. I don’t use it all the time, but when I [...]
