MSRDC sounds great, so what’s the catch? If you go ahead and install it, the first problem you’ll face is that there’s no way to launch a connection to anything other than Azure Virtual Desktop from the GUI (msrdcw.exe). While both RDP clients use the same core, they do not have the same user interface and do not support exactly the same features and redirection types. MSRDC is meant primarily for Azure Virtual Desktop. Simply put, MSTSC is the classic RDP client that ships with Windows and that most people are familiar with, whereas MSRDC is the newer RDP client that can be installed as a separate application. MSRDC = Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (modern, out-of-box)

MSTSC = Microsoft Terminal Services Client (classic, in-box)

However, few people remember what it stands for, so let’s begin with a few definitions:

Windows administrators often have the name “MSTSC” etched in memory after years of typing it to launch Windows’ built-in RDP client.

What does this mean? And what are the differences between the two? Read on! MSTSC? MSRDC? Good news! Remote Desktop Manager 2022.1 now supports MSRDC as an alternative to MSTSC, with both embedded and external RDP connections on Windows.

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