In response to,.One tool I decided to learn more about is. The current version of visionapp Remote Desktop was born through the combination of the open source tool and the then current version of visionapp Remote Desktop.
Since this conglomeration, the open source mRemote is no longer under development; all development activity is now focused squarely on the commercial visionapp Remote Desktop tool.Available in free and pay editions, visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 enables admins to connect to servers using these connection methods: RDP, ICA, VNC, SSH, HTTP, and Telnet. If you ever identify a need for an additional protocol, visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 can be extended to support that new service, too.What sets visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 apart from some other tools is its ability to share connections between many desktops; it can also save all connection information into a database so that many people in the department can reuse the connection.
With this feature, connections only need to be set up one time. The sharing feature is available only in the product's pay edition. The free edition can be used by individual users in a standalone way and can manage up to three concurrent connections. This makes it somewhat limited but still useful.In this tutorial, I will walk you through the process of installing and configuring visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2. I am working with a trial version of the product's pay edition. Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 starts at $99 and goes down in price as you add more administrators.
This blog post is also available as. Installation and initial configurationTo start the installation process, double-click Remote Desktop 2010 R22010R2withSqlExprinclPatch3.exe. You will get an installation screen like the one in Figure A. (I don't display every program installation screen, since they're all pretty much like any other installation.)Note: If you prefer to install the product without shared database support, install using the Remote Desktop 2010 R22010R2inclPatch3.exe executable instead.
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Bear in mind that this installs the program in a single-user mode that doesn't allow connections.Figure A. The Remote Desktop 2010 R2 setup wizardDuring the installation process, you're asked to provide some user information and to decide where you'd like to install the program ( Figure B).Figure BChoose an installation locationOnce installation is complete, execute Remote Desktop 2010 R2 by going to Start All Programs visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2.
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Upon this initial execution, you will see a screen that indicates there are no environments configured for the client ( Figure C). This is the first place where it becomes evident that the program's dialog boxes have been translated from another language, as the grammar leaves something to be desired. That said, the program functionality is fantastic.Figure CMore configuration steps are requiredTo add a new environment to visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2, click the Add button and, from the shortcut menu, choose Database. The database houses all of the details for an environment ( Figure D) and allows visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 environments and connections to be shared by multiple users.
You can use the included SQL Server Express to store these environments, or you can use an existing SQL Server. Or, if you like, you can skip the database altogether and just use visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 yourself. For this article, I'm installing the SQL Express database.Figure DAdd a new databaseAdding a new database starts a Create Database Connection wizard. On the first screen of this new wizard, I selected the option to create a new instance of SQL Server Express ( Figure E), which includes a new database to house the visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 R2 environment.
C: Program Files (x86) visionapp Remote Desktop 2011 Uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to remove visionapp Remote Desktop 2011. Visionapp Remote Desktop 2011's primary file takes about 219.31 KB (224576 bytes) and is named vRD70.exe. Visionapp Remote Desktop 2011 is composed of the following executables which occupy 813.22 KB.
Visionapp has just released a tool for administrators who have to connect to many different Terminal Servers. The tool, called visionapp Remote Desktop (vRD), is (although you must register to download it.)vRD is similar to some others that are out there. (Royal TS, etc. See my for a complete list.) It follows the “standard” approach where there is a left pane and a right pane. The left pane maintains a list of your servers, and the right pane is a tabbed interface that shows all your open RDP sessions.The cool thing about vRD is that it lets you manage credentials separately from the connections. For example, I have two domains in my environment: “brianmadden” and “bmmail.” With vRD, I configure each set of credentials and then associate each new connection with them.
Then when the credentials change, I only have one property to modify for many servers.All of the configuration is stored in a visionapp registry key under HKCUSoftware, so it’s very simple to copy or distribute configurations among employees.vRD takes about 5 seconds to install, although it does require the.NET framework. But I also understand the fears that are out there.
Just a couple of words, making things a little bit clearer. I am the one who is technically responsible for this tool.
Our company visionapp is rather small with about 100 employees, being absolutely dedicated to Terminal Server and Citrix technology. Now guess somebody would find out that we are 'stealing' user credentials with our tool. A simple network sniffer could easily detect such a thing. The damage to our reputation would be severe. But visionapp wants to stay into business. We want to keep our Citrix Platimum status and protect our jobs.
I personally want to be a Microsoft MVP in the future and I would like to keep on writing books for MS Press. There is too much to lose if we do a stupid thing. Visionapp Remote Desktop is a freeware tool, but provided by a company known in the SBC community. I bet, Jeff and Brian would come over to Germany and kick my ass if I would misuse the trust they have into me and our little tool. Benny Tritsch Add My Comment.
I like the source, it's so. Simple;) private void ReadResources public Credentials Credentials set else this.mtbDomain.Text = value.Domain; Now that I know exactly how you encrypt and decrypt, it's easy to compile a simple hanger to collect everyone's password:) I know that's not your goal, etc; but when you use compile a text encrypter you better use a lower level language instead of C# or at least use an obfuscator to prevent people from hijacking your code and eventually hijacking peoples password.
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Add My Comment. So, you want to show us your skills in.NET? We're all impressed;-) Yes, we decided to use a rather simple method to encrypt the passwords for the freeware version of this tool. We only wanted to make sure that it is not so easy to decrypt the binary data in the registry including the user credentials if you do NOT decompile our vRD code and write your own vRD-specific decryption tool. In the same time you could write your own vRD.
BTW: For our commercial products we use a different encryption library, including obfuscating technologies and low-level routines in C. But here we talk about the first version of a freeware tool - and we wanted to keep it simple.
If you need something real secure, I'ld recommend that you buy a commercial product. But I see your comment as valuable feedback.
We may use our more advanced encryption lib for the next version of vRD. If this is a real requirement and makes our tool more valuable to the TS community, we will invest a little more time into this issue. Benny Add My Comment. Thanks for your efforts regading this program, Benny. Working in a large company, I think that our eSecurity department would prefer that your code be obfuscated before I use a tool like this.
That may be a little bit of justification to put the time into a little better security, even for a free tool. As a request, do you think you may be able to schedule some time to work on a program that will filter the contents of these discussions based on the social skills of the anonymous poster? Best Regards, Jack Cain Add My Comment.