Use Microsoft Remote Desktop on Multiple Screens
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2022
- This video will show you how to use the Microsft Remote Desktop Client on Multiple screens.
Launch mstsc.exe
Click Show Options
Click the Display tab
Tick the box that says "Use all my monitors for the remote session"
Click Connect.
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thank you so much for this!! i was disappointed when i thought i couldn’t use my new portable monitor while using remote desktop while working from home. i’m so glad it was a worthwhile purchase!
You are a life saver!!! Started working remotely and you saved me a ton of stress from having to work in single screen
Nice!
Really appreciate this video BeeSyndicate! Quick and simple fix that I wasn't aware of. Now I'll be more productive with my work. Thanks again.
Glad you liked it.
Oh My God Chris, I've been working from home for years stuck to one screen for no reason than I didnt look. Thank you!!!!
LOL IDK why but this comment made my day, glad I could help
This is for the antiquated Remote Desktop Client. There is a more up to date app, confusingly called the 'Remote Desktop App' which is recommended over the client, now. For this app, however, it is not clear how to utilise both screens when accessing remotely.
Oh my God! Thank you so much! This so helpful. It works now on all my monitors.
You're welcome!
You made this a breeze!!! Thank you!!!
You're so welcome!
Omg thanks so much for this video!! Exactly what I needed!!!🎉
You are so welcome!
really cool! I almost got scared that I will not be able to do this. Thanks a lot
Aye yo fam this was tight as hell, mucho appreciated.
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Extremely helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing. Couldn't find it, but I'll try this!
Thank You!!!....This was driving me nuts lol, I have 2 monitors at work & at home as well & all of a sudded I couldn't get my 2nd monitor at home to display my remote connection. Thanks for posting, God Bless!
Thank you Chris
It works for me man
God!
I was getting frustrating with that 1 screen
Thanks again man
Thanks a lot for making this video.
My pleasure
thank you for the video, it helped me with what i exactly i was looking for :)
cheers!
Thanks for the video explanation, unfortunately I am still being limited in my remote desktop connection. I have 2 displays, my laptop display and my additional monitor. When using locally, I can drag icons across the 2 screens but not during a remote connect. I first connect to my work using Net Extender VPN, then remote connect to my work PC (which has a 2-monitor display). It's as if the Remote Connect is limiting me to the display size on my main work monitor. I really like to be able to use this feature, any suggestions? Thanks!
Thanks Chris, that's helpful
Thanks for posting this video. Very useful trick.
Glad you liked it.
Thank you so much for this!
Thanks a lot it was really helpful
Thanks for video. It was helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
you r the best my man
Is it possible to create multiple remote desktop sessions from my Mac to different Windows desktops and seamlessly switch between them, as if I had separate desktops on my Mac and the two Windows desktops, with the end result being three distinct spaces - one for the Mac desktop and two for the Windows desktops?
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS!!!!!!
this guy is god send person to all of us
Thank you, Chris.
Very Helpful.. Thanks a lot
Glad it helped
Thank you Chris!!
Very informative video Chris. Question: can I used this same method to split view multiple tablet screens real time on a pc? I have a restaurant and would like to setup a customer order system where customers place their orders on a tablet in which the cashier take all orders remotely.
Thanks for Posting the Video. I dont understand why Microsoft Made it this way. If you have to look it up it's wrong. It should be an option even when you already started the session. And even then It shouldn't be more than 2 clicks
No problem, We all have to look stuff up. It would be nice if this feature wasn't an all or nothing setting. If you have 3 displays it would be nice to use Remote desktop on just two of them.
Thank you It helps 🤟
Do you know if there is a way to do this so you can get it windowed vs full screen? Ideally it would create multiple windows you could maximize in each monitor so you can use the RDP session and easily open windows of stuff running locally.
Awesome. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Does Windows RDP support 4 screens all running FHD accessing a LAN Esxi VM? Another question is what are the best smart card/Hardware security key login options when using RDP?
Excellent!! Thank you!!!🎉
You are so welcome!
Ahhh, beautiful! Thanks so much!
Sure thing.
Thanks. short n simple..
Excellent, that was my goal!
When I use citrix I can use either one screen or two screens without having to disconnect the remote desktop and ticking or unticking the use all my displays check box (just stretch it over the two displays etc... ) How do I go back to one screen with ms remote desktop without having to disconnect, so I can uncheck the box. Is there simpler way?
Thx, very helpful!!
Glad to hear that!
Thank you very much sir :)
Most welcome!
God bless you! Thank you!!!
Hey thanks for the video, I have a mac mini with multiple displays and ordered a Windows PC on the way, I am planning to use it only for a remote connection so I won't have a monitor for it. Was wondering will using Microsoft Remote Desktop allow multiple windows boxes for each display on my mac?
Sort of... you will need to enable multiple screens on the RDP session but I would put money on Citrix treating both screens as one large display.
Thanks Man!
You bet!
well done sir.
Thank you for making this video. This is really helpful! I have two remote workstations in a room that has a much cooler temperature than my office. I do not have monitors connected to them. Is there a way to remote desktop to them from my office and bring them up on multiple monitors without actually having to connect them to monitors? Let me know if I need to explain this better.
Yes, the host PCs do not need displays attached. As far as I am aware it should work as described in this video.
Interesting. I have a similar but almost opposite problem. My remote PC is the one with dual monitors, and my client has one. When I connect to the remote, everything on the remote gets shoved onto a single monitor. When I go back to the remote PC "in person", I have to un-move all the moved windows. How can I remote in to a remote dual-monitor setup while not messing up the dual-monitor setup?
That is just how it works. Nothing to be done about it. You can find 3rd party programs that will save and allow you to restore the locations of your icons.
hi Chris. Thanks for posting this video. I am using a Mac and I did this amazing trick. Unfortunately, it worked so well that now I have my two PC screens from work and my Mac laptop screen is also overtaken by the PC as a third screen. Is there a way to only use the two screens from work and keep my Mac screen. Mac is pretty bad in the sense that you can't resize the MRD so it is little or it takes all three screens. Any tips? thank you!
In theory, when you hit the Fullscreen button, it will take up all the screens that the published desktop touches when in windowed mode. so resize it to span only the two screens that you want to use.
Omg thank you!!!!!
Thank you!!
Thank you!
Chris I trying to use two monitors with a program that work uses. It is jump remote desktop. Is running two monitors part of the free remote options or is it a pay upgrade?
I have no Idea. I have never heard of this product but it looks like they have a general inquires contact form on what appears to be their site. (I think this is what you are talking about jumpdesktop.com/) The form for contact request is found here (support.jumpdesktop.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) please be advised I know nothing about this company or product and we are in no way affiliated.
Hey Chris, how do you extend the monitor over multiple monitors so you can put programs on different monitors??
Resize the window when in windowed mode
I am having trouble with the correct monitors I need to work. I have a laptop and 2 monitors. I have my extended displays setting correct on my laptop. I want my 2 big monitors to display when I connect to remote virtual desktop for work. I’m Citrix. When I log on to remote desktop the settings how do I get the 2 monitors to display. Currently it shows 1 which is my laptop. Then has monitor 3 beside it. How do I get my monitor 2 on my Remote Desktop as well? Currently my laptop is in the center as 1, but I want my setup where laptop is on the left and my two big monitors on the right so I can work Remote Desktop on those 2 big monitors? Thank you
What about if the remote computer already have another monitor connected , i will be able to use it with remote desktop ?
when using rdp, how do I get the remote screen to display vs blanking out? thanks
Thank you 🤩
No problem
Hey! I'm having a problem where its saying I've used the "most amount of devices" is there a way to increase it?
Thank you so much...
You're most welcome
Thank you for the video. Is there any way to have multiple monitors display in separate windows instead of full screen? I want to use my local desktop with all the monitors as well as the remote machine.
Nope not as is. You can run in windowed mode and stretch it across screens but it will be treated as one desktop., or you can get creative with Virtual box and accomplish it with multiple virtual displays.
Thank you
Dude the problem is when you shadow a multi monitor you get all monitors small on screen, if you on check to view just 1 full screen it chops off whole screen. Coming from 1024x768 to 1920x1080 , I haven’t tried switching remote to 1080 yet. Still trying to get it working
Thank you for the video. Do you know how to do the same with an ipad pro and multiple screens?
Your Welcome, No I don't.
soooo helpful🎉🎉🎉
Hello! If I have 3 screens, is possible to maximize the remote desktop only in 2 of them? I still want to use one monitor for the local machine for MS Teams, Outlook... Thank you for your video :)
Found the solution! Open RDP windows, select "Use all my monitors for remote session", "Save as" the RDP connection. Edit the just saved file in notepad. Search for "selectedmonitors:", if you do not have it, just add it in the end "selectedmonitors:s:1,2" (this will use monitor number 2 and 3, will leave the monitor number 1 without the remote desktop). Save file, open file...
hello, is it possible to do this on the same app but for MAC?
Thanks for video. One quick question, can i have remote desktop split into two screens on a single monitor?
Not out of the box. Remote Assistance and Remote Control can do this but I don't think Remote desktop can do it. Perhaps with some registry magic, but I would have to look into it.
Thanks!!!
I’m a Mac user and I use Remote Desktop to use a local windows pc. While this works amazingly I sometimes deal with lag even though they’re both on the same wireless network is there anyway to accomplish this as a wired connection (Mac mini & pc are side-by-side) instead of relying on the wireless network?
Should work just fine if you connect to your network with an Ethernet Connection.
Gracias!!
I'm using Azure Virtual Desktop for my work. Could you please show me how to use Azure Virtual Desktop in multiple monitors?
hi! thanks for the video! my question is about how to do this on a MacBook that is using an iPad as a second screen?
Honestly, I have no idea if that is supported, and I don't own an iPad to test. I do know that the iPad is not treated the same way as a normal screen by the Mac so I would not be surprised that it would struggle. But this is completely a guess by me.
This video does not refer to Version 10.2.3012.0 - there are no options for using 2 monitors which is a huge oversight by Microsoft.
I have a very convoluted question - what if you are using aircast on a Mac to a Roku TV? 😅. I can set aircast to mirror “as a separate display” (ie another mac screen) but Microsoft doesn’t recognize that as a second browser. Any way to get around this one? Do I have to basically hardwire the laptop in to the tv screen to solve it?
*edit. Aha! Never mind somehow it worked. Now I just have to figure out how to reproduce it each time 😅
Glad you were able to get it to work.
What about the Remote Desktop App from the MS Store? How can we set up multi-screen support there?
Don't know. If passable I would avoid using that version.
Is there a way I can have it act like a Windowed Fullscreen on multi-display?
I have 4 displays and lets say I only want to use 2 for a connection.
Yes, only stretch the window across the displays that you want to use. Then hit full screen.
boxing it inside of a VM was the solution I went with. Made it easier to designate displays and work how I wanted .
Thanks you guys rock
I have one monitor and the remote PC has two monitors. How do I access multiple monitors on the remote PC via RDP ?
Hi Bee. I have a question for a issue im trying to solve. So I'm playing a game called Starcraft 2(custom games) and I figured out how to import GPU into VMs, to run games through it. So I run 3 games on 3 monitors. But it get's a bit hectic at times multitasking back and fourth.
But let's say i want to mirror my mouse and keyboard actions to these 2 VMs. Will this be possible? Can I mirror my mouse while in a game, to these 2 VM's running on my other monitors?
Hope you have a clue Bee, I've been googling and asking chatGPT for a while, thanks for your time.
Remote desktop will not do this because of how I/O capture works. You might rather try looking to see if you could somehow get your Hypervisor to always capture I/O regardless of where the window focus is.
@@listner909 Thanks for replying, you've given me new keywords to look into. I'll try it out.
Can you have Remote Desktop on one side yet have your local on the other side?
Hey! I already got the box ticked and did countless troubleshooting. How come you have another virtual display? Please let me know!
I only had the second virtual display to make the video. In Virtual Box you can add additional displays in the machine configuration.
I connect to my dual display windows machine at work using Citrix installed on a Linux dual display at home. Once connected I have to use a RDP app in citrix. The tick box does not work in this instance. It just make the screen too big on the 1 Linux screen.
Yeah, I think you may be stuck with that because Citrix treats all the displays as a continuous desktop. This my be fixable on the citrix server but I honestly don't know off the top of my head.
Hi there , I am looking to have 4 of my six computer screens mirrored at a remote location. I don’t want them to have the ability to have functional control of anything on my PC, just to be able to view, in real time, what is happening on my multiple screens.
I am a trader in financial markets and am training a remote party. I also do t want the solution to have much an impact to my CPU slower or glitchy….
Is the functionality described in your video content above a solution?
Will the remote party need to see all the screens at once? If not you can share one screen at a time on most conferencing applications like Zoom, Webex, and even Discord.
The answer is at 1:55
I have 2 offshore staff using RDS and this is not available in their client. I checked the config file and the line "use multimon:i:1" is configured. The RDS client that was deployed by IT does not allow editing the RDS client. These connections pass through an RDS Gateway. When they connect, they must authenticate via an app. There is no option to expand the screen within the session. It opens only on one screen. Any suggestions?
My suggestion is not to try and override setting put in place by Your IT department. is Your RDS Gateway Citrix?
How can I use multiple screens with Remote Desktop from a Mac book air
How to share screen of one PC with all other client in same network?
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I have one laptop and extend monitor but I’m unable to open the Azure WVD on my extended monitor, can you please help me.
I want to use WVD on an extended monitor.
I haven't used Azure WVD but I think it is just a remote desktop. If that is the case... Put the remote desktop into windowed mode and drag it over there.
Great content and a question to ask: On Windows 11 you can easily create multiple desktops. Is it possible to create multiple desktops on 1 machine, and then allow remote login for a selected desktop only? Or will remote login have access to all desktops on that machine? Thank you!
They will have access to all desktops. I think What you are looking for is a feature of windows server an requires a Windows Terminal Server license.
i apparently have a newer version of RDC. it does not give me the displays option. Just clipboard and printer. any fix?
Unless it is different in Windows 11 The client hasn't changed in some time. Hit Start > Run and type MSTSC and press enter.
Very helpful. I am using an Authenticator app to verify my credentials. When I try to do as instructed in the video I don’t get the prompt in the app to approve my log in so it doesn’t work. I called my IT. I think he changed the display configuration in the screen you show on your video and then it worked. Next day, I can’t get it to work. Any suggestions?
It is not something that can be resolved from the client side. Your IT will need to resolve this issue.
can you use tightvnc for multiple screens ?
Not sure. It has been may years that I have not used any flavor of VNC in any meaningful way.
I need to use forticlient vpn and then connect to the remote desktop. But I can't spilt the screen in the connected remote desktop. How can i do it? Using laptop btw
Desktop, laptop its all the same. but you are asking about forticlient and this video is not for that. unfortunately I am not familiar with that client.
How to disable to see virtual machine while connecting to anydesk or screen sharing apps
What?
Why they gotta hide stuff in somewhat obvious locations like that 🤦♂️ u da man!
Even when its front and center I can still have a hard time finding stuff right in front of me.
It didn’t work for me. I have Azure thru my job… do u know if this works if monitor is thru usb
It might be a limitation set in the ICA configuration (Contact your IT.) In general, it should work, but that said I know that some USB display devices are a bit janky, so I could conceive that something about the device could be a cause of the issue, but for your setup IDK.
I ticked the box that says "Use all my monitors for the remote session". Still nothing unfortunately. Still shows one screen I don't know why
It won't show screens as they are on the host side it let you use multiple screens on the client side if that makes sense.
that's sooo easy. How I never find this option!
Sometimes hidden in view is the best place to hide a setting :)
Invece di un secondo monitor, potresti usare un tablet?
Is there a way to get this to work on a mac?
You will need to look for support for the remote desktop client that you are using.