Details required :. Cancel Submit. I found my own answer. I did not remote into the ultimate version I used it to remote from to professional. Only ultimate available off the shelf or enterprise available via Microsoft volume licensing supports dual terminal services monitors. So if you have users vpning in from home complaining about this check the version you are remoting into.
The target pc needs to be ultimate or enterprise. New servers never was an issue. How satisfied are you with this reply? Disclosure: TechRepublic may earn a commission from some of the products featured on this page.
TechRepublic and the author were not compensated for this independent review. As long as you have the proper configuration, Windows 7 provides you with real multiple-monitor support as opposed to the monitor-spanning feature that was introduced in the previous version of Remote Desktop Connection. This means that in Windows 7 you can use this feature to connect to a remote computer and take full advantage of your local system's multiple monitors on your remote system.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report , I'll describe Windows 7's Remote Desktop support for multiple monitors and show you how to configure it for connecting to other Windows 7 systems. I'll also show you how to use Remote Desktop's monitor-spanning feature when connecting to, and from, Windows versions that do not support the multiple-monitors feature.
When you connect to the remote system, the remote system's monitor will instantly fill your multiple monitors, just as if it were physically connected to the monitors. As I mentioned, in a connection configured with the monitor-spanning feature, Remote Desktop allows you to drag or span the window across multiple monitors.
However, there are a couple of caveats. First your multiple monitors must have the same screen resolution. Second, the monitors must be aligned, or positioned, side-by-side. Third, the combined screen resolution of your multiple monitors must be under x To launch Remote Desktop Connection with monitor-spanning support, just click the Start button and type the following command in the Start Search box.
Alternatively, you can open a Command Prompt window and type the same command. When you do, you'll see the standard Remote Desktop Connection dialog box, and you can launch the connection as you normally would. As soon as you make a connection, you'll immediately see the desktop of the remote system spread across your multiple monitors.
If you need to have access to both the local and remote desktops, you can reduce the size of the remote system's desktop to only one monitor by clicking the Restore Down button on the Remote Desktop window. You can save a RDP to a file with all settings pre-saved.
And open this RDP file in notepad and you will see where you can type this in. I know that the RDP file will be on my desktop but I am still wonding if thie mstsc. The statement above is also misleading. Is this correc? I have a new setup I installed today. Both computers are running Windows 7 Pro and both computers have dual monitor video cards. The computer in office A is not connected to any monitors. The questions is: can the hcomuter in office B can RDP with dual monitors to the computer in office B eventhough there are no monitors connected in office A?
Thanks for these notes. I understand them but have a conundrum. From home I used the same command line switch and the RDP session only occupies the primary monitor. The versions of mstsc. There is a difference in the color depth dropdown. At work I only see 15 and 16 bit, but at home I see those plus 24 and 32 bit. I have six monitors. They are not set-up as a rectangle. I would like to multimon across those four. When I attempt to do this via the cmd method I simply achieve blank screens across all my monitors.
Can you assist please? Akmil is correct. If you are trying to use a dual-monitor computer running Windows 7 Pro to remote connect into a remote dual-monitor PC running Windows 7, the remote machine must be running either Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise.
Verified this just this weekend. The user went from XP to 7 Pro, and the loss of dual monitor during remote sessions was disappointing.
They upgraded to ultimate, and dual monitor use during remote sessions was restored.
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