deadlydog

Any updates on this item? This is very inconvenient as we typically organize our servers into a Developmnet, Test, RC, Prod structure, but now all of those VMs are mixed in with one another, making it more error-prone to opening the wrong VM. Are there any plans to restore the tree-structure view functionality for Favorites? Thanks.

Hey guys, maybe this is already possible and I just don't know about it, but it would be awesome if I could rename our entries just for myself. The problem is that we typically give our entries a name that matches the computer name, so RCApp211 for example. It would be awesome if I could also give it a local friendly name, such as "RC Scheduled Tasks Server" I would want this to only show up for myself though, and not everyone. Then in the Navigation pane it could maybe show up as "RCApp211 (RC Scheduled Tasks Server)", with the "(RC Scheduled Tasks Server)" portion in a faded out grey color so we know it's the friendly part. I guess it wouldn't even be a big deal if it showed up for everyone, as long as the friendly name portion was a different color so everyone knew that was the friendly name portion. So maybe you want to have both a global and local friendly name, where the local one replaces the global one if the local one is defined. I still think the local friendly name is valuable for if 2 people use the same server for 2 different purposes, they can give it their own friendly name. Is this "friendly name" feature already possible today? It would make navigating our 200+ servers much easier and would prevent constantly logging into the wrong servers, so it would be a big productivity booster too. Thanks.

Awesome, thanks so much Jean-François. It was the Edit Sessions (Session Type Settings) part that I was missing. :)

Every time I (and my colleges) open Remote Desktop Manager, the first thing we do is go to Navigation -> Favorites to open a session to the PC that we want to remote on to. It would be a nice time saver if the Favorites list was simply shown in another column on the Dashboard, since the dashboard is always displayed when the program is launched. This is a small change, but would save us lots of clicks every day. Thanks.

Thanks Maurice, I found that screen by right-clicking one of my entries in the Navigation pane and choosing Properties. This works, but I can't find the corresponding batch edit property to modify. I tried right-clicking a higher level node in the tree -> Batch edit -> Edit Session (Local machine specific settings) -> Settings tab -> Override keyboard, but that didn't work. Where is the corresponding setting for batch editing? Sorry to be such a pain, I'm new to the software, but hopefully other users will find this useful tool

Thanks for the clarification Maurice. My problem is that I can't find the "Local resources" section. Where is it? Is it in one of the File|Home|Actions|Edit|View|Administration|Refactoring|Tools|Window|Help menus? I've also looked in File -> Options and can't find it there either. Maybe I'm just blind.... Also, I'm using version 9.2.5.0 if that helps.

P.S. These forums have a bad user experience where if I'm on a thread already (like this one) and then use the OpenID button to sign in, it takes me to the forums homepage instead of back to the thread I was on. Not sure if you guys can fix that or not.

edited by deadlydog on 5/8/2014

Looks like my comment above only works for the current session. When you close and open Remote Desktop Manager again that option is reset. Where exactly can I change this setting so that it persists? I've looked for a "local resources tab", but can't find it.

For anybody else wondering where this is on newer versions, it's in the "Actions" ribbon and is called "Windows Key on the Remote Computer".