How to customize the session name

How to customize the session name

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Good afternoon! We are trying out Remote Desktop Manager and are very impressed. I have a question, though: Is there a way to show the description from Active Directory in the session name? We put the name of the user currently assigned to a particular computer in the Active Directory computer description and would like to automatically display it alongside the session name. For example:

Session name: Computer1 - John Doe

I know we can add them manually, but since the names are already in Active Directory, we'd rather not do so. I've tried adding the (locally) logged-on user name to the session name field by using the %USERNAME% variable, but it just always shows up as "%USERNAME%". It doesn't work in any of the other fields I've tried either.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated!

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Hi,
This seems to be a good idea, but I really don't know how we could achieve that without compromising the performance. The application would have to query the AD for every machine at every refresh? Do you have an idea?

David Hervieux

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How often does it refresh the data?

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For some data source, you can set an auto refresh. We also update the data just before opening or editing a session to ensure that the data is up to date.

David Hervieux