

After I realized that the ActiveX control offers most switches and allows me to host multiple sessions in an Explorer-like single-window interface, I decided to write my own little app for that. While you could do most stuff with mstsc.exe, I have found it very limiting and not very user friendly to work with multiple sessions at the same time.

At the time Microsoft’s client didn’t expose much of the available settings and the MMC lacked something basic like the “Connect to Console” switch. My main motivation to write a tool like this was the poor implementation of Microsoft’s RDP MMC snap-in. I hope you enjoy… Why bothering writing an RDP client? Can you believe that? More than 10 years ago, on October 26th back in 2003, I released the first public version of Royal TS and it looked like this:Īs promised in this blog post, a little background story about the name and the tool itself.
