When Windows Admin Center was recommended as the alternative, it was largely met with scoffs. Recently there has been much consternation and complaining because RDCMan is depreciated and won’t be patched for a pretty big vulnerability. It comes at no additional cost beyond Windows and is ready to use in production. Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based app for managing Windows servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, as well as Windows 10 PCs.

In this post I’ll show you in depth, why you should replace RDCMan with Windows Admin Center.įor those of you not familiar with Windows Admin Center this is the description from the official page.

All of these systems can help enforce your least-privilege principles and protect sensitive data so you can comply with data security regulations.If you’ve followed me on twitter for a while you’ve known I’ve been a big fan of Windows Admin Center since it was called Project Honolulu. User privileges and permissions can be easily managed using our role-based access controls, which can work with your active directory groups to help admins create a granular protection system. IT teams can use the integrated credential management features to store and manage account passwords, in addition to integrating existing password manager solutions directly into Remote Desktop Manager.

According to Devolution’s page, Remote Desktop Manager allows you to centralize and secure access to all your remote connections, manage privileged credentials, configure your network for remote access, and restrict permissions to specific users.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Devolution remote desktop manager on Ubuntu/Debian desktop systems.

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