If you’re involved in systems administration like me you’ll quite often find yourself with multiple RDP connections to the various servers you manage. Sometimes this can be a bit of a pain, especially when you don’t like the Windows taskbar option to ‘Group similar taskbar buttons’ and have it turned off. Luckily there is an easy (and free) solution.

I use a small program from CodePlex called ‘Terminals‘. It’s got a really easy-to-use interface and allows you to manage all your RDP/VNC/VMRC/Telnet/RAS/ICA (Citrix)/HTTP/HTTPS connections from one place.

Instead of putting my own screen shots up here I’ll let the developers of the application handle that for me. You can view their screen shots by visiting the CodePlex Terminals page and clicking the link labelled ‘Screen shots and a brief list of the feature set’. Apologies if this link isn’t permanent - it’s valid as at June 3rd, 2008.

I highly recommend Terminals if you often have multiple connections open - it’s helps me a lot when I find myself with a whole heap of RDP sessions open at one time. At the time of writing this article the latest version is Terminals 1.6l and it you can download from the CodePlex Terminals website.

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