Thumbnails for RDP Connections?

Hi,

I'm aware of this feature and it's great. The problem is the way it's implemented. It's a not a thumbnail, it's the ActiveX reduced to seems like a thumbnail. There is many problem related to that in RDM:

- We support multiple mode for the ActiveX (smart size for example) and some of them might add scrollbar when it's resized

- We support mstsc.exe in external and it's not easy to generate the thumbnail.

- We support many other type of session and I sure that adding a thumbnail for some of them, will generate many request for the other one.

For these reasons, I postponed this feature. I hope to get a nice solution and I will see what I can do in the future.

Thank you for your suggestion and don't worry I kept this feature in mind.

was just wondering what the benefit of this feature would be? I am sorry if I am a little daft

This is a "cool" feature, but there is not much benefit. The only think I can see that might be nice, it's if the thumbnail is updated frequently, you can monitor multiple server at the same time. Maybe someone has more usage than what I see, let me know?

I use this during patching. I may be patching and monitoring 5-20 servers an hour and it is nice to have the thumbnail view to monitor the progress from a single view. I would love this feature in RDM!

I use this during patching. I may be patching and monitoring 5-20 servers an hour and it is nice to have the thumbnail view to monitor the progress from a single view. I would love this feature in RDM!

That's exactly why I wanted it.

EDIT: That's why I am using Microsoft RDCMAN and not Devolutions product

edited by luddy on 4/9/2012

Did thumbnail views ever become a feature?

I use that all the time with RDCMan to monitor the progress of various things on multiple computers at the same time. If RDM can't do it I will have to continue using RDCMan regularly.

It's still not possible with our current architecture. You have to know that RDCMan does not create a thumbnail. Actually it resize the actual connection to make it look like a thumbnail and unfortunately it's not something that we can do.

Hi,

is this already possible now?

That would be really helpful for me too.

I'm switching back and forth between Royla TS and RDM but looking at Royal, this feature has been added more than 2 years ago and is called "overview":

http://blog.royalapplications.com/2015/06/07/new-windows-feature-overview/

Admittedly, Royal Tx is not as feature rich as RDM but being more "lightweight" is sometimes quite nice, plus features like the overview push me more and more into using Royal Ts....

It's not possible for now but it's on our todo list. We have changed some internals in RDM 13 (coming soon) and we are confident that we will be able to add this feature eventually.

Regards

Totally dig this feature in RDCMan. Incredibly useful for installing stuff on multiple servers at the same time. Not just thumbnails, but the live interaction with them all. useful; for installs of software where next needs to be clicked etc on all of them.

This would be great, if you add this Feature soon!!! For updating several servers this is a very helpfull tool. You have all servers in in the category in an overview and can control the servers in thumbnail for needed interactions. Verry Helpfull!!

This feature sounds really awesome for patch purposes. Would like to see it eventually :)

Hi David,

Please let me know any update on this in the new Release 13.5.0.0 as I have installed new version but I am not seeing any progress in the servers only I can see the servers.