Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 Beta Available Now

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tim braun — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:02:02 GMT

is there a tool available to connect from a xp client to mac also ?

thanx alot

tim braun

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David Liu — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:33:55 GMT

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

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John — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:40:29 GMT

How can I use TS Gateway settings for this version on a Mac? I do not see anything for setting this up in preferences. Thanks.

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maczter — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:56:22 GMT

@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.

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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:14:02 GMT

@tim try logmein free, I use it to connect from mac to pc, and pc to mac. The mac client is a beta but works like a champ

https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/

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上海翻译 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:01:12 GMT

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

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Lyn Taylor — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:18:36 GMT

Does this version work at all with Windows XP or Vista Home versions?

Lyn

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deetle — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:07:22 GMT

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.

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Denton — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:07:10 GMT

installing Terminal Services Client 6.0 update on your xp machine appears to break the Mac remote desktop client.... I can still connect to the XP machine via RDC from an XP or Server 2003 machine but no longer from my Mac. I now have to Remote into my server then from there remote to my XP.

Same thing happened when I updated to Terminal Services Client 6.0 on the server.

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JZSlenker — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:26:47 GMT

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.

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termserv — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:20:38 GMT

@JZSlenker: You'll probably have better luck asking on the microsoft.public.mac.rdc newsgroup.

See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.mac.rdc&cat=en_us_e9fbf464-08b5-4583-960b-d457dd96374b&lang=en&cr=us

Rob

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Geekster — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:24:51 GMT

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?

Security settings in RDC 2.0beta

Philip Legge — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:46:55 GMT

Very nice upgrade!

I would like to be able to use it in my work environment, but am unlikely to get the new version approved for use without being able to get technical confirmation of the security settings the app uses - I presume like the Windows equivalent, it would be using 128-bit RC4 encryption? Would it be possible to use SSL tunnelling to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks?

Also, as a matter of curiosity, what was the most recent version available before the current beta, and is it still available for download somewhere on the MS site? (e.g. I still have a copy of version 1.0.1 (build 030206) but it might have been surpassed because of security issues or something similar)

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TomZ — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:52:50 GMT

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?

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Alex — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:55:42 GMT

Hi there, nice update, but the hangings/locks while using VPN are very annoying. Making this tool unusable to me.

Cheers, Alex

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Keith Esau — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:19:02 GMT

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.)

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Alex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:40:50 GMT

Forgot to mention that the VPN freezes are only happening with Vista as remote client. W2K3, W2K and XP working fine via VPN tunnel. Too bad if your main workstation runs a Vista..

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FrustratedWindowsUser — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:59:23 GMT

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.

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Elton Saul — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:37:15 GMT

Sorry to hear about the difficulties you have been experiencing. The shared clipboard has been a source of frustration over the years. Take a look at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/tags/Clipboard/default.aspx

This posting explains why the system clipboard chain (which it the mechanism through which TS components are notified of clipboard updates) breaks so easily and what has been done in Vista and later to resolve this issue.

Can I use Timbuktu without TS?

Nick Lightbody — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:17:27 GMT

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.

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Amanda — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:57:08 GMT

Please help! I'm trying to connect to Windows Server 2003 through my MacBook Pro 10.5.2 and I always get this error.

The mac cannot connect to the Windows-based computer. The problem might be temporary. Try connecting to the windows-based computer again, or contact your administrator.

It works fine when I try and connect from a windows computer to the server but I can't get it to work on my mac.

Help!

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Bart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:25:39 GMT

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

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Alex — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:17:44 GMT

Does the mac 2.0 Beta client support "Start a program" like the windows remote desktop connection? I am trying to publish a application instead of the desktop. In the windows remote desktop connection (mstsc), this featuture can be found under the "Options" tab and then selecting "Programs"

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Tim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:57:03 GMT

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

Beta Expired :-(

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:08:15 GMT

The Beta is telling me to download the Final version -- but there doesn't appear to be a Final version...

Beta Expired... any word on update?

Chris — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:48:04 GMT

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...".)

The beta is expiring, but don't panic

David Liu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:33:52 GMT

Folks, I posted about the beta2 expiration on Mac Mojo blog. Please take a look of it at http://www.officeformac.com/blog/. Or here is the direct link: http://www.officeformac.com/blog/RDC-Beta-Users--Beta2-is-Expiring--But-DonAt-Panic

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Daniel VanWinkle — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:28 GMT

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.

Remote Desktop Client for Mac that works with Terminal Server 08

Sar — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:40:37 GMT

Any plans or ideas on when there will be a RDC for Mac that can connect to a Terminal Server 08? I just tried ver.2 Beta 3 with no luck.

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Nelly Porter (MS) — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:57:39 GMT

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

virtual channels?

Alex — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:33:05 GMT

Does Mac RDC client support Terminal Services virtual channels like Windows RDC.

I want to port my Windows channel plugin for MAC also. How to do it?

Thanks.

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Cory West — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:27:18 GMT

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?

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Rohini Kumar BRP — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:09:07 GMT

Does this client support connecting via TSG using smart card?

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Tom Benedict — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:22:55 GMT

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.

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Tom — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:03:42 GMT

Glyph and bitmap caching in Mac Remote Desktop doesn't seem to work as well as in the Windows client. Remote Desktop is much less responsive overall.

Clipboard issues in the Mac version makes one wonder how clipboard is handled in Mac OS X. There are a lot of areas where Mac OS X falls short, could this be one of them? As the linked post indicates, this was a shortcoming in XP that was fixed in Vista.

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Michael A. Nolte — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:47:53 GMT

Why no support for TS Gateway in the new RDP client

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Ross — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:27:29 GMT

Yes, the TSGateway support for Mac client is an obvious omission from the v6.1 implementation of the RDP client. I know this was intentional but would be interested to know if this is on the roadmap or a piece of functionality MS doesnt intend to include.

Thanks!

Ross

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Tzur Sayag — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:12:28 GMT

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

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Kris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:32:34 GMT

I've been using the RDCv2 for the last few months.. I recently started having problems with my printer (HP laserjet p2015d). It prints word documents but leaves out the main part of the material i'm trying to print. I get headers and footers, but no content. Any suggestions

Thanks!

Kris

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Dennis Forsman — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:42:20 GMT

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.

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Corbett Enders — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:49:02 GMT

If you are planning to deploy TS Gateway, then currently there is no Mac support. If you will publish TCP 3389 directly from the Internet to a TS server, then the MAC will have no trouble connecting.

I believe Easy Print will not work on a mac currently.

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John Walker — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:09:32 GMT

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

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Brandon Stocks — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:12:32 GMT

It would be very nice if the RDP client for Mac 2.0, It kind of defeats the purpose of the additional security that the TS Gateway provides, if we have to open port 3389 back up.

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Robert Lusby — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:37:05 GMT

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

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Benjamin Barnes-Thomas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:25:15 GMT

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

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Anders Palm — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:06:06 GMT

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

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Simon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:02:01 GMT

Me too on support for TS Gateway. RDC for Mac is worthless to us without it.

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David Walker — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:34:12 GMT

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!

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Mark jenkins — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:46:40 GMT

Lots of people wanting ts gateway support but no responses! Does anybody know whether there are plans to include this. We have just launched ts gateway for 2200 users and the mac users want to know when they will be able to access

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brian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:37:52 GMT

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

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David wolf — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:10:30 GMT

Please provide support for TS Gateway.

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Derren Gillam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:25:41 GMT

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

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asheikh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:58:12 GMT

Please provide support for TS Gateway. I have to run vmware fusion just to run the windows Rdp client for ts gateway....

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Duane Martin, DDS — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:27:14 GMT

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.

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Jack Williams — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44:33 GMT

We really need support for TS Gateway on MAC. Please build it!

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tc — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:41 GMT

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

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Kenny — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:27:34 GMT

Please add TS Gateway support a.s.a.p.

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AS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:44:35 GMT

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.

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Charles Hartley — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:39:13 GMT

Pretty disappointed with the lack of a TS Gateway option for the Mac RDP Client. This, with the obvious lack of support for non IE browsers through TS Web Access makes this product a poor solution when compared to others in the market.

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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:55:41 GMT

Please add support for RD Gateway on the Mac RDP client. We are now looking at a non-microsoft solution to solve remote access needs for our users.

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Arjen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:13:06 GMT

I need the TS Gateway support too for our MAC computers. We don't want to open 389 ports to the internet, but are almost forced into it now... :( Is there any development going on on this?

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Pete — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:28:14 GMT

Please add TS Gateway option on the Mac RDC!!!