Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog

Tim, there is currently no tools for connecting to a Mac desktop.

@tim - if you need to connect to a Mac from a PC, Timbuktu works nicely, though it's not free. VNC is also an option, though not as versatile as Timbuktu.

That will be a very useful tool for me. Thanks.

If you realy want feed back on the beta , make it simple.  You should not force people to get threw several levels of web pages , ask them to read how to file good bug reports , and then ask to sighn up for live , and so on.    

The way it is:

Help->Send Feedback-> popup with pointer to web page ->

  ( https://connect.microsoft.com/macrdc ) - > Get Live Id  or read fileing bug reports , click on left to leave feedback.  

This actualy doens't exist.

It should be:

Help -> Page with 2 fields and send buton (  email address + comment for me to fill out) .   If you don't get my feedback you can send me mail to ask for detailes.

I wanted to leave feedback , but all this crap made me change my mind.    

Any idea why I can not get to my local mac hard drive.  Any other drive connect to my macbook shows up fine (USB-flash drive, or CD).  Is it a possible conflict with parallels or 10.5??  It's quite frustrating.  I've also tried going back to RDC1.0  It doesn't seem to be a sharing issue either.

Nice upgrade.  I have one question - when I connect from my Mac with a 30" screen (2560x1600), I can't get better than 8-bit color depth if I choose "full screen".  If I choose "1440x1050" then I get 24-bit color.  I'm connecting to 2003 server.

Is this a TS or RDC limitation, or is it possible   that the server has a cheapo video card in it somehow influences the capabilities of TS sessions?

When connecting to a Windows 2003 Terminal Server from my iMac running OSX 10.5.1 with the RDC 2.0 for Mac, the time on the Terminal Server is 1 hour behind my local machine (both the server and the iMac are in the same time zone +1 GMT)- any known work around?

Where do I get the needed TS CAL?! (And don't tell me to ask my networking guy internally, they do not support the Mac.)

I use Windows Vista (and before that, XP) to administer more than 100 Windows 2003 servers in various data centers.  One problem that has plagged me for almost 8 years is that copy/paste intermittently stops working between my local workstation and the remote machine.  Access to the clipboard is definitely enabled, and it works briefly but then stops.  I've researched it more than a dozen times, and it doesn't seem to be caused by software locking, then failing to unlock, the clipboard.  It seems to happen most often when I'm copying from Office or pasting to Office on the local machine, but does affect Notepad and all other apps.  I just did a clean rebuild of Vista Business + Office 2007 Ent + McAfee + Windows Updates with NO OTHER SOFTWARE installed, and I had 10 joyous hours of productivity before copy/paste stopped working (2 hours after starting my machine up this morning).  I'm at my wit's end and frankly feel like dumping Windows.

Can I use Terminal Services to install Timbuktu then use Timbuktu on its own later?

It appears that if TS is disconnected it stops Timbuktu from sharing the screen although the file exchange still functions.

Can anybody clarify this?

I need to be able to run Tmbktu w/o TS on occasions in order to run single copy of Filemaker Pro.

Fix the black and white printing!; why are we still unable to print in color from a remote session?

The Beta expires on March 31st which is 3 days from now. Will there be an update before then?

So... today is March 31st. The beta "expires" today, and I can't seem to find any word on when (or if) the final version will be ready. Anyone able to find it?

(When I first got the message the beta was "expiring", and the page the link took me to didn't have what it said it was supposed to have, the fist thought that popped into my head was "How very Microsoft...".)

I really like LogMeIn (http://www.logmein.com) to go from windows to my Mac... The nice thing is that it is accessible either through your LAN or even over the net.

Are you connecting directly to WS2008 server and have issues with it, or attempting to connect via TSG?

Copy/Paste within the client stops working CONSTANTLY.  The only solution seems to be to exit and re-launch.

I don't care about integration with the Mac clipboard if it comes at the expense of mostly not being able to use copy/paste within the Windows client.  Is there some way to turn off the native clipboard integration so this doesn't happen anymore?

Any news on TS Gateway support for Mac RDC 2.0? Our company is moving away from Cisco VPN and will use TS Gateway exclusively. MacOS users will no longer be able to connect remotely.

Why no support for TS Gateway in the new RDP client

I use the mac client 2.0 build 80530 to connect to a vista home machine. It works find. But recently I get frozen screen on the client, then after a while it tells me the remote computer has disconnected and asks me to reconects again. the reconnect works but after 10 minutes this happens again and again in an endless cycle.

I have no idea what bothers it.

Any log file? something that can hint about the nature of the problem?

thanx,

--tzurs

I am in the process of evaluating Windows 2008 TS versus Citrix.  One of the requirements from senior partners is that their Mac's be able to connect from home.  Can you believe that the entire decision on a platform is related to if a Mac can connect from home?  Microsoft really needs to ramp the support for Mac and the home user.  The entire office is Windows OS but there are a few Mac's at home for some staff members.  Any comments about the latest Mac RDC and Windows 2008 TS would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Another vote for TS Gateway support!  Please don't make us give Citrix more money just for a handful of Mac users!

I would also like to request that the next version of RDC for the Mac include support for a TSGateway.

I want support for TSGateway. It's pretty useless for me without it.

Another BIG vote for TS Gateway with RDC for Mac.  I can't move our farm completely over to 2008 via TSG until we get it!

what's up with limiting printing to black and white?

Another vote for TS Gateway here, please incorporate this functionality.

Our local hospital just launched EPIC via TS Gateway and several Drs. need access via Mac. RDC 2.0 needs to support TS Gateway connections. Please.

yes,i need it also, n i'm not alone...

The lack of RD Gateway support forces us to offer VPN for MAC clients. We also need MAC support for RemoteApp. This truly hurts our ability to deploy a MS based remote access solution. It is important that this becomes a feature. Face it... Macs are out there and we can't control our employees' personal computer preferences.