Tips & Tricks

Improved Remote Desktop Manager Feature: Inventory Reports

Summer is here, which means folks are trying to look their best. Time to work out, diet, and get a new hairdo! Well, here at Devolutions, instead of working on our tan or hair, we’re hard at work maki...

How to use One Time Password (OTP)

Remote Desktop Manager has done it again, we pulled another rabbit out of a hat to simplify your life! RDM has added One Time Password (OTP) to our long list of supported credential entries. You can n...

Data Source Permissions in Remote Desktop Manager

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been focusing on RDM’s role based security system and exploring the difference between roles and permissions set on entries. Today, we’ll look at a new feature: implemen...

Guest Blog: Remote Desktop Team Considerations

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. In today’s corporate environment, IT administrator...

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How to Secure SSH with Google Two-Factor Authentication

A few weeks ago we took a look at how to secure Open SSH in 10 steps, and one of those steps was how to secure SSH using Two-Factor Authentication. Well, since it is quite complex to set up, we’ve dec...

Guest Blog: Best Practices for Securing Remote Desktop Connections

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is one of the ad...

Should You Use RDM Jump or SSH Port Forwarding?

Should You Use Remote Desktop Manager Jump or SSH Port Forwarding?

There may be times you’re not sure whether to use RDM Jump or SSH port forwarding. I’ll admit that even I get confused sometimes! The easiest way to look at this is not as an “either/or” decision – be...

RDM for Windows vs. RDM for iOS

Recently, I looked at the differences between RDM for Windows and RDM for Android. But don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten all of you iPhone and iPad fans, because today we’ll be comparing RDM for Window...

Guest Blog: Five Essential Remote Desktop Tips

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is the IT admini...

How Can Remote Desktop Manager Help You Become PCI Compliant

PCI DSS is an acronym for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It’s a set of worldwide protection standards developed by major payment card companies, and it’s mandatory for businesses that s...

10 Steps to Secure Open SSH

Well we might as well call this month our SSH month since we are full throttle on SSH! Following our “Reverse SSH Port Forwarding” and “How to Configure SSH Tunnel on Putty”, we thought it would be go...

How to Configure an SSH Tunnel on PuTTY

Most of you have probably used a tunnel with an SSH connection. What you probably weren’t aware of is that you can use a dynamic tunnel to access all remote infrastructure. Furthermore, you can specif...

What is Reverse SSH Port Forwarding

Reverse SSH Port Forwarding specifies that the given port on the remote server host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the local side. To try to put this as simple as can be, Reverse SSH...

Devolutions Web Login for Edge

Recently, we took a look at the new Devolutions Web Login, which is a handy browser extension for Remote Desktop Manager. Installing Devolutions Web Login on Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE is simple an...

Remote Desktop Manager Startup Checklist for the Free Edition

As the expression says: All good things come in threes! So after sharing the Remote Desktop Manager Startup Checklist for Teams and the Remote Desktop Manager Startup Checklist for Individual Users En...

Why is a database upgrade sometimes required when using Remote Desktop Manager?

Have you ever wondered why Remote Desktop Manager sometimes asks you to upgrade the database – and other times it doesn’t? Well, the question crossed my mind the last time I was prompted to upgrade, s...

Jump Host now Integrated in Remote Desktop Manager 12

In the past, you had to buy a separate license to get RDM Jump. Well, here’s a Christmas gift that is about 1000x better than a pair of socks or an ugly sweater: RDM Jump is now fully integrated in th...

New Remote Desktop Manager Feature: Vault Settings

The new Remote Desktop Manager 12 has some great new features, and one of my favorites is Vault Settings. Along with Security Groups, Roles and Repositories, it’s another way to manage your security. ...

How to Use Auto-Login Through a Web Browser (HTTP/HTTPS) Session in Remote Desktop Manager

The web browser has been deprecated in favor of Devolutions Web Login. Please visit this blog to learn more about this feature. Last week, we looked at the new Devolutions Web Login option. Today,...

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Using an SSH Tunnel to Reach a Protected Server – Part 1 – Local Port Forwarding

How does one reach a remote server that is in a protected zone? Maybe there is a firewall protecting the server, but you simply must access that precious server. Naturally, exposing the whole server t...