Microsoft Remote Desktop fails connecting to a 4k Laptop from a MacBook Pro Retina Display

Hi there
I'm struggling because I'm trying to use my MacBook Pro Retina display to connect to a Lenovo Laptop that has a higher resolution.
The RDC simple does not work and when it does, the scale is too big to do something and gets disconnected in minutes... 
Any hint?
Thanks.

Hi,
It seems that MBP retina has high PPI resolution so that when accessing with normal MRD it will display blur or stretch the screen. Might due to that reason it can disconnect the screen also. For this you can try to use URI scheme where you can manually add
the width and height for the screen and check result.
You can check beneath article.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn690096.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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