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Keeper Connection Manager - Replace all those RDP shortcuts!

We are a small admin team of about 5 people. That’s 5 people that need to connect to servers. Except for myself, each person has a small number of servers they connect to. All admins have separate domain admin accounts, but we were all connecting to the servers in different ways. Some were using RDP shortcuts with saved credentials, while others were using random third-party apps like mRemoteNG or outdated versions of RDCMan. Unfortunately, we aren’t running an RMM tool, and we want our admins to sign in under their own elevated accounts instead of a shared one. Our admins range from full sysadmins (like myself) to database admins that probably shouldn’t have full admin rights, but that’s a harder problem—and not the one we’re solving today. At first, I tried to get everyone on board with the same software, but it was a pain to get third-party software updated and synced across everyone’s machines. This also meant that if you signed into a new machine without that software, you’d hav...