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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions Apps
I have posted a nice little applet that we have used around the office to open multiple Remote Desktop Connections. Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection was a godsend for Windows 2000 Server management, but it drove us crazy when we realized we could only open one connection at a time. RDC Launcher 1.0 solves that problem. The file is available here:

http://homepage.mac.com/jshelton/doughboy/

[robg adds: I have mirrored the applet to the macosxhints site; please use this download link to download the file and spare the bandwidth hit on jshelton's .mac account. This is a more elegant solution than what we had previously posted, which basically required duplicating the application multiple times.]
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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: jtrott on Jul 13, '03 08:21:08AM
Nice script, but you were making it hard for yourself.
Check out this slightly modified and much smaller version:
property pathtoRDC : ""

on run {}
	if pathtoRDC is "" then
		set tempPath to (choose file with prompt "Please locate Remote Desktop Connection..." of type "Application") as text
		set pathtoRDC to POSIX path of tempPath
	end if
	do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/Current/Support/LaunchCFMApp \"" & pathtoRDC & "\" > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
	delay 2
	tell application "System Events"
		set frontmost of last item of application processes to true
	end tell
end run
Apple includes a nice 'POSIX path of' command, why not use it?
Keep up the good scripting work :)
JT

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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: jcsheltonusa on Jul 14, '03 10:53:35AM

Thanks for the help on the path. Comments like this one are the reason I put this out. I knew RDC Launcher could be better than it was, and I knew people would find it valuable as is.

Thanks
Chris



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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: grndprxguy on Jun 16, '05 04:30:36PM

I had trouble getting this to run under Tiger. I removed the type=application, and was able to select my remote desktop connection program... works like a charm.



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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: chrismu on Jul 22, '05 12:29:38AM

sorry to be such a noob, but how do I remove the type=application so it will run on tiger?



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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: nwsnow on May 19, '06 12:38:42PM

great tip - thanks tons!



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Open multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop sessions
Authored by: EricaLynn on May 24, '06 05:20:37AM

I know this is an old script/hint .. but I was wondering if anybody made a modification that read a list of servers and opened each of them in remote desktop .. reply here if you have or think you can help me :)



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