Well I just found another one of those programs that I can’t believe I have not been using up until this point. The program that I am talking about is called Terminals. This program is used to manage multiple RDP connections that you use. Personally this program is going to be a life saver because I connect to several servers by IP address that I am only aware of. I have included a couple links below so you can try the program out for yourself. I don’t think you will be pleasantly surprised and will probably wonder how you lived without it.

Terminals CodePlex Link
http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals

Screen shots
http://weblogs.asp.net/rchartier/archive/2007/10/02/terminals-v1-6b-release.aspx

Virtual machine manager 2008 has been out in beta for a decent amount of time.  I have been working closely with it over the past couple of weeks.  One of the things that had me stumped is what Microsoft used for a refresh rate for the stats that virtual machine manager reports on.  Thankfully Cheng Wei took some time to write about the refresh rates in virtual machine manager.  You can find the post by following the link below.

Cheng Wei - All about the refreshers
http://blogs.technet.com/chengw/archive/2008/10/01/all-about-refreshers.aspx

I have been looking at several solutions over the past few weeks for a virtual desktop manager.  As we are pushed to deliver more results with less it becomes very important to become very efficient.  Dexpot 1.4 helps deliver some of this improved efficiency.  With having different virtual desktops you can quickly change what hat you are wearing.  One thing I was a little skeptical about was how it would handle dual monitors, but this program did not skip a beat.

Dexpot 1.4
http://www.dexpot.de/index.php?lang=en