Alt-tab in RDP no longer working

alt-tab while within a windows remote desktop was working and for some reason stopped working although shift-alt-tab does still function. I looked on my older mac which has not had the same updates applied and it does still function there.
How would I go about finding what has removed this functionality to restore it? I presume some application has grabbed the keystroke and is eating it.
Thanks

I did not find a solution for this, but I did start up my old mac which has not had any updates applied since I got this new mac in October and found the alt-tab was still working there in rdp.
As a note, if I did not mention it before the shift-alt-tab does work which is the same functionality but in reverse order. This makes me believe it is something grabbing just this key combination.
I do not know if there is a global way on the mac to see who is getting which key - if there is please enlighten me.
Thanks for keeping this question alive as I am interested in learning how to track down these issues on a mac. On windows, I would fire up spy++ and see who is getting the keys.

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