First published on CloudBlogs on Jul 13, 2018 by Enterprise Mobility + Security team The with its redesigned user experience and new code base has been since last November and the feedback has been incredible, helping us continuously improve the client. As more and more customers have switched to the new client for their daily usage, we are now preparing to retire the older Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0 version from the App Store. To that end, on September 1, 2018, version 8.0 will be retired and only version 10 will remain available for download. If you are one of our macOS customers, now is the time to download the new version, test all familiar scenarios, and give us feedback for any issues or concerns you might have before September. Submit your feedback through Help > Report an issue in the client or request additional functionality via our.

We look forward to your feedback, comments, and help in ensuring the new client meets all your needs. In my case, version 10 has a new interface, but it has several issues. It doesn't handle multi screens (if you choose 1 monitor, the other monitor goes black and is not useable. Typically you have a web browser on the other with instructions on what to do, you google around on the one to try and solve the problem, whilst applying the suggestions to the remote desktop session. It poorly handles the system going to sleep. It never wakes up. It poorly handles logging out, it just hangs 4.

If you download an RDP file and double click on it, it doesn't give you the option to save it - it just disappears never held in the nice interface that someone has designed. I don't see anything better from version 8 at present. So far I have found I can copy the RDC for Mac version 8 from the Apps folder - compress it and save it off for new workstations, since it will eventually be removed from the app store. So far I found this works to manually just copy V8 on the new Mac, decompress and then copy into the Applications folder. Test with: 10.11; 10.13; 10.14 (release build).

So backup your V8 RDC if you need it going forward. I also found 3rd party Jump Desktop works when RDC 10 is not working, but in Jump Desktop I needed to disable the client side Network Level Authentication to connect to my resources. Jump Desktop is not free, but it works when RDC V10 is not working.

User experience is critical. Free word document for mac. So the very first thing that someone does when they launch version 10 is expect it to automatically retrieve all of the RDP sessions they have created in version 8.

They are probably all stored in the registry (a horrible idea, btw) and so. Why did this not happen.

I am loath to go rebuild all of these RDP sessions. How do I import them and why did it not happen automatically. Instead of providing a product I can immediately use, you obsolete the old one, tell me I must use the new one and then prevent me from using it.

Did anybody in QA actually test this, because if they did they need to be fired. Version 10.2.2 (1291) resolved all my outstanding problems with earlier releases of 10.x Loggin out from RDP when using gateways, hanging on sleep, adding new (additional) configuration files.

It also saves version history, so if someone happens to mess something up, you can view the version history for a list of changes and roll back to an earlier version of the document. To make collaboration easier, Microsoft now auto-saves your work (finally!) at regular intervals. A flag will also be visible in the document where another person is editing, and you can watch the changes as they happen.