Screenshot (click to enlarge): Remote Desktop Connection Manager full screen option is a bit hidden away under the Session menu Again in full screen mode, the remote desktop takes up the entire screen and scaling happens without leaving you with blurry text, images and cursor. Text, images and cursor all appear crisp and as expected! Extending out to an external monitor is much more successful than with the standard RDC. Screenshot (click to enlarge): Connecting using Remote Desktop Connection Manager I now get the remote desktop completely filling up my Surface screen, and at a resolution and DPI that is useable. Screenshot (click to enlarge): Remote Desktop Connection Manager layout Lots more configuration options (compared to the standard RDC).A navigation list of machines you regularly connect to make it super fast to open and switch between connections.Remote Desktop Connection Manager has the added benefits of:
Instead I now use a separate free product that Microsoft has available called Remote Desktop Connection Manager. The closest thing I have found to a silver bullet that addresses most of these issues in one hit is to stop using the Remote Desktop Connection client that comes built into Windows 10. As soon as I tried to RDC to these virtual machines I immediately started running into these problems.
I have transitioned across to using a Surface Pro 4 as my main work machine, I don’t do much development work directly on the Surface, rather I have a few virtual machines running on servers in the office and in Azure. The host screen and the external screen.Trying to show the Remote Desktop on an external monitor is often affected by Blurry text/images/fonts (such as the Word ribbon), some really oversized text (such as the window title), tiny mouse cursor (or reverse, sometimes I get a massive cursor)Īlmost all the symptoms above are due to differences in DPI and resolutions between: Screenshot (click to enlarge): Remote Desktop Connection on Surface Pro 4 opened on an external monitor. Screenshot (click to enlarge): Remote Desktop Connection on Surface Pro 4, if you try to put the remote desktop into full screen mode, you end up with the same tiny text and images just centred on the Surface screen with a black background around it.
Screenshot (click to enlarge): Remote Desktop Connection on Surface Pro 4, trying to maximize the remote desktop just pushes it to the top right corner of the Surface screen, the icons and text are so small you can hardly read them. between Surface screen and external monitor)