I have used the Microsoft remote desktop app for a while, that was until it started having problems seeing my local drive making impossible to upload work to our windows server. I started to search the internet to find something else that would work for me, I found a application called Cord which is much easy to use and remembers a number of servers that I use. As with Microsoft’s remote desktop it would frequently forget which server I used and even if I saved the small file with the details for each server I still had to manually input the details each time I needed to log on.

Cord is so simple to use, I just set up the servers put in the details and when I need that server I just click connect. In the preferences you can save what to open and what resolution you want to view the external server. I have noticed it looks a little fuzzy compared to MS remote desktop, but I can live with that if it mean it remembers my local drives, and more importantly remembers my drives right down to a particular folder!

You can download Cord here.

Cord say this on there website -

“Macs interact well with Windows, and with CoRD the experience is a bit smoother. Great for working on the office terminal server, administrating servers or any other time you’d like your PC to be a bit closer without leaving your Mac. CoRD allows you to view each session in its own window, or save space with all sessions in one window. Scale session windows to whatever size fits you—the screen is resized automatically. Enter full screen mode and feel like you’re actually at the computer. The clipboard is automatically synchronized between CoRD and the server. For system administrators, CoRD creates a simpler workflow by allowing you to save server information, then quickly connect to that server by using HotKeys or the server drawer. This makes quickly connecting to a specific server easy, even when managing many servers.”