But it should at least have the common decency to document this clearly. Microsoft (who I used to work for) can, of course, make whatever features it wants be only available in the premium editions. Even then it doesn’t say whether the host or the server needs to be running Ultimate/Enterprise, but a bit of testing confirmed that it is the host (the machine you are connecting to) that needs the extra licensing power. Under “Which editions of Windows 7 include multiple-monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection?” it admits that you need Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Enterprise Editions. Hidden deep inside it is a vague description of the problem. Only after looking through several pages of comments did I start to figure out what the problem was, and eventually I found this article: No error message, but just a single monitor.Ī bit of searching found a blog posting that breathlessly described the wonders and advantages of remote desktop multimon: All I have to do is check “Use all my monitors for the remote session” and I can use all of my monitors at home when connecting to my work machine.Įxcept it doesn’t work. Therefore I was pretty pleased to see that on Windows 7 there is a multimon checkbox. As a programmer I find that having multiple monitors is pretty useful and definitely increases my productivity. However one thing has always been missing – multimon. Remote Desktop is pretty cool technology – the ability to connect to a remote machine so seamlessly that you sometimes forget that the machine is remote is pretty amazing.
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