Posted by: kurtsh | October 21, 2013

RELEASE: Microsoft Remote Desktop for iOS & Android

UPDATE 10/21/13:
Looks like I totally missed this but apparently we DID in fact publish the new Remote Desktop client for MacOS X, based on the iTap-Mobile technology we acquired from HLW.  (Thanks Nathan for the heads up!)

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ORIGINAL POST:
imageWell, we’re still waiting for the Remote Desktop for Mac OS X technology that we acquired from HLW/iTap Mobile however in the meantime, here are the links to the FREE Remote Desktop clients for iOS & Android.

For those of you that have never had any experience with RDP clients, not all clients are created equally.  The reason this acquisition is important, among other reasons, is that the iTap Mobile suite of RDP clients that provided Remote Desktop capabilities for non-Windows platforms were very well supported and from my experience, the defacto standard for Enterprise customers that want RDP clients for non-Windows platforms. 

The HLW/iTap-Mobile technology we acquired distinguishes itself in particular by supporting both Network Location Awareness & TS Gateway, some important Enterprise features (for BYOD folks that roamed from place to place) that the previously Microsoft-in-house-developed Remote Desktop for Mac 2.11 did not support.

One thing to keep in mind is that these apps are not identical to the HLW/iTap-Mobile published clients.  They are reportedly based on the same technology but not bit-level identical.  I strongly suspect that this is because any IP that we acquire has to go through a very rigorous inspection which includes a Trustworthy Computing review (checking for vulnerable code) and an examination of the source to ensure that there aren’t libraries in use that conflict with Microsoft policy.

Just trust me.  This is an important set of tools for companies using Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2.

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