Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Manager is lean and proven – but limited to RDP. NEO RDP Manager takes over your .rdg files with all their groups and brings SSH, VNC, Telnet and PowerShell into the same window.
As of October 2026. Information on RDCMan based on publicly available sources.
| Criterion | NEO RDP Manager | RDCMan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | free | free (Microsoft Sysinternals) |
| Protocols | RDP, SSH, VNC, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, PowerShell, HTTP/S, own programs | RDP only |
| Organisation | folders with inheritance, tags, favourites, search with filters | groups with inheritance |
| View | tiles with reachability, sessions as tabs, full screen, detach | tree with live session thumbnails |
| Passwords | vault with master password – take it to any computer | bound to user account/computer or certificate |
| Reachability | background port check on every tile | – |
| Import | .rdg with groups, ports, gateway, users; plus mRemoteNG, .rdp, PuTTY, AD | – |
Groups become folders, servers become RDP connections – with display name, port, gateway, user and domain. You only enter the passwords once more, because RDCMan binds them to the old computer.
Linux servers via SSH, switches via Telnet, kiosk PCs via VNC and Windows servers via PowerShell – all as tabs next to your RDP sessions.
The vault is encrypted with your master password, not bound to a Windows profile. With portable mode you can even carry it on a USB stick.
Live thumbnails of every session in a group at a glance don't exist in NEO RDP Manager – its tiles show which servers are reachable instead.
Yes. Under Import & export → “Import RDCMan …” pick the .rdg file. Groups become folders, servers become RDP connections with port, gateway, user and domain.
RDCMan encrypts passwords so that only the same Windows account on the same computer, or the owner of a certificate, can read them. Store them once more after the import – ideally on the folder, so every connection below inherits them.
Today RDCMan is offered by Microsoft as part of the Sysinternals tools. For pure RDP environments it is still a lean choice.
Import .rdg, store passwords once on the folder, get going.
Download NEO RDP Manager