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Installing Remote Desktop Connection Manager as limited user

Installing the Remote Desktop Connection Manager requires administrator privileges. That can be a problem in a corporate environment where you might not have local administrator rights. Fortunately, there is an easy way to overcome this limitation by performing an administrative installation. Continue »

New version of the Cloud IAP plugin for Remote Desktop released

A few days ago, I released version 1.1.22 of the Cloud IAP plugin for Remote Desktop on Github.

The three main new features in this release are:

A managed implementation of Cloud IAP TCP tunneling
OAuth-based authorization.
Support for custom GCP session lengths.

About Johannes

Johannes Passing lives in Melboutne, Australia, and works as a Staff Solutions Architect at Google Cloud where he focuses on Identity and Access Management (IAM).

As a Solutions Architect, Johannes’ work is split between working with customers across and beyond EMEA and contributing articles to the Google Cloud website and blog. He is also the author and maintainer of IAP Desktop, an app for zero-trust RDP and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.

Besides IAM, Johannes has a passion for software architecture and lean software development.

Johannes holds an M.Sc. in software systems engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute, is a Google-certitified Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Cloud Security Engineer and is ITILv3- and PRINCE2-certified.

Any opinions expressed on this blog are Johannes' own.

Contact Johannes at jpassing (at) hotmail com