Love the program - just a few suggestions

I have to admit, it is awesome to have Microsoft creating a product to use on a Mac to connect to RDP sessions!  Not to mention free and for the most part, works great.
However, there are a few things I think you could really improve the app with minimal coding and legwork.
Have an option to create "folders" of remote desktops in order to categorize, for example, workstations apart from general purpose Servers apart from Domain Controllers.  With as many remote boxes as we use on a regular basis (around 75),
it is very tedious looking for the correct entry in the huge list.  The search box recently introduced helps...but sometimes I can't remember the exact name of the DC I'm thinking of - so a folder system would be great.  By the way, it seems like
the coding might already include limited folder functionality since there is the default "My Desktops" which can be raised or lowered and the "Remote Apps" section.
The other thing for easily finding the machine your looking for is to be able to apply "tags" or some sort of metadata to each remote desktop connection so that you can search based on a tag and not just on the name of the connection.
This is a minor issue and more of an annoyance than a bug, but I typically work using three monitors.  Generally use all three in remote sessions also.  Let's say I need to go to Firefox on my Mac while still connected - I just go to the Dock
and click Firefox and depending on which monitor it is opened in (space to be technical), the remote session will remain open in the other two spaces while firefox pushes the RDP out of the way while I'm using it.  However, when going back to the RDP
connection, most of the time the full screen does not work properly.  There exists scroll bars in the window and it is not fully "full-screened" for lack of a better term.  The easy fix is to take the session out of full screen and then
go back, or to disconnect and reconnect.  I think the issue only occurs on the monitors (spaces) that are NOT the primary space (e.g. the one with the dock).
Other than that, I think it's a great benefit to both OS X users as well as Microsoft - kudos for bridging the gap.  As much as I am a huge fan of all things Mac and *NIX, Microsoft definitely has the cutting edge when it comes to high quality, low
bandwidth requirement remote console connections.  Unfortunately, the OS X remote desktop system still works via VNC, which can hog several megabits (or more) per second easily - so, I give MS major credit on the innovation of the RD Protocol!
Thanks for the consideration of these suggestions.
SIETEC

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions and I will forward this to the product group.
Best Regards.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

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