Now that I have pretty much completely turned to the Dark Side and use a MacBook Pro for nearly all my work, I need some way to manage our Windows network in school. We currently run 5 Windows 2003 Standard Edition servers. Using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac works ok, but it is by no means perfect.
Then by complete chance one day, while watching an episode of Hak5 (excellent video podcast, go subscribe to it now!), I spotted @hak5matt using his MacBook Pro to demo some software, and noticed the app name CoRD in the title bar.
On further investigation I found CoRD is a remote desktop client for OSX that utterly rocks. It has a really useful sidebar that you can keep all your commonly used servers in so they are just a double click away. Makes switching between servers an absolute breeze. Read the rest of this entry »
