Using Microsoft Remote Desktop on MacBook Air using OS Yosemite 10.10.2

Hi,
I have recently acquired a MacBook and have been trying to use Microsoft Remote Desktop software to open a cloud based server called Universal anywhere. 
It has been working fine but now keeps crashing at various points, like when I type in the server name, it opens up using MRD, I enter my username and password and it comes up saying 'Microsoft Remote Desktop closed unexpectedly'. It will sometimes let me
go a bit further and get into the actual cloud based system I am trying to use, but always crashes eventually at some point after I have input software.

Hi,
I cannot confirm if it is supported for Remote Desktop Client to remote to the third party cloud server. Also RDC is keeping updating since released, you can also check if a newer version is available and if it will get this back to work.
In the meantime you can also test to use a Windows system to Remote to that server incase the issue occurs on server side. 
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