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Friday, January 01, 2010 12:42:57 PM 

I hope you all had nice and refreshing holidays. I know that I did. Despite the fact that I am still recovering from my minor surgery two weeks ago, I am feeling very well again.

The coming year will bring some major changes to Royal TS and I bet you all are very excited about this. I will not reveal much in this post but you can expect regular progress reports over the next weeks bringing you more and more details about the new features coming to Royal TS in Version 2. There are still some minor nasty bugs in 1.6.8 and you can also expect an update here.

As many of you already know from the forums, Version 2 of Royal TS will be almost a complete rewrite and there’s still a lot of work ahead of us. We are still deciding for some features to be included in Version 2 or to be postponed. We hope that we can provide a beta version of Version 2 some time in Q1/Q2 2010.

Here’s what we know to be included:

Version 2 will have an “Object Explorer” which is basically replacing the current “Navigation Tree”. Why object explorer you may ask? Simply because you can now create not only RDP connections, you can also create and organize other connections and objects.

Using the object explorer you can create/manage the following “Objects”:

• Documents: you can now have more than one document open in the same tree
• Folders: you can now have nested folders in each document
• RDP Connections: pretty much the same as Royal TS can do now, of course some new features and options will be included.
• Web Connections: instead of connecting to a remote desktop session, you can now open a web page. Very handy if you have some web based admin pages for routers, firewalls, WIKI pages, Sharepoint sites, applications, etc.
• Tasks: pretty much the same as Royal TS can do now, only that the tasks can be organized in the tree like any other object.
• Credentials: a credential is nothing more than a username/password pair which can be defined in your document. You can then refer to these credentials in your connections/folders. You can refer to them explicitly by choosing the Task from your tree or you can instruct Royal TS to look for a credential with a specific name. This feature has a great impact if you are using the same document in a team. In your Document you configure each connection credential to look for a credential named “Domain Admin Account” and if you want to connect to this session Royal TS looks in all your open documents or in your application store (Tasks and Credentials can also be stored in something called Application Store to be available all the time in your Royal TS installation, we will talk more about the application store in another post) to find a credential with this name. This way, login information will be separated from the document but it is also possible to have auto-logon functionality.

The last bullet in the list hints another feature many of you requested: Assigning credentials/tasks on a folder level. You can now optionally assign default credentials, a pre-connect task and a post-disconnect task on a folder in your hierarchy and configure your connections to use the configuration of your parent folder instead of the individual configuration.

That’s it for now.

I wish you all happiness and prosperity in the new year. Thank you for being our customer and we look forward to continuing our relationship in this new year!

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