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Being a Mac OSX user but managing several Windows based servers, I find myself using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac quite a bit. Until version 2.0 Beta of the RDC software this was quite cumbersome. The older version would not let you have a connection to more than one Windows computer at a time. The new version does however and if you combine the power of Quicksilver you can greatly increase your efficiency in launching your most common connections.
The key is in the RDC client’s ability to save connection settings. You can save a .rdp file into a location indexed by Quicksilver and then quickly launch that connection in just a few keystrokes from that point on. Here is how to set up a connection to a computer located at mydomain.com:
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