Recent requirement which i had was to extend my Remote Desktop console to my secondary monitor. initially i tried to expand it by dragging and resizing the remote desktop console, but it never worked out. however i remembered somewhere that it’s possible to do it with the RDC(Remote Desktop Connection) version 6.1. RDC 6.1 comes bundled with Windows 7, and also included on the following O/S applied with service packs mentioned below
Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 – Service Pack 01
Windows XP – Service Pack 03
Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 – included by default
there are many other features introduced by 6.1 but i will only be highlighting one specific feature which i discovered recently.
it is the ability to span remote desktop across multiple monitors
this requires following components in place for it to work
-RDC 6.1
-All monitors should have the same resolution
-Monitors need to be aligned side-by-side
there are two ways that you can accomplish this task. one way would be to run mstsc with the /span parameter
eg – mstsc /span
or else you could configure your RDC settings to span across multiple monitors
as you can see above i have selected the option “Use all my monitors for the remote session”
when i connect to the remote computer it will extend remote desktop console across all my monitors