Applications/Microsoft Remote Desktop/Microsoft Remote Desktop.app If either version of the installer, MAS or PKG, detects version 8 on disk it will create a new folder and place version 10 inside of it at: The first consideration when upgrading is that version 10 will not overwrite version 8. With those bugs fixes it is time to roll it out. Microsoft’s Elton Saul was great to work with in confirming these bugs and keeping me updated on the fixes which arrived in 10.2.2 that released yesterday. I wasn’t able to immediately update our computers here because of a couple bugs I ran into on the two primary third-party services we use MRD with. It was added to the MacAdmins.software website and support was added for keeping it up-to-date with Microsoft AutoUpdate. Starting with version 10.1.6 in March, to the delight of many MacAdmins, Microsoft made Remote Desktop available as a package for standalone installation not dependent on the MAS. True to Belanger’s word, only a single update has been released since that time, 8.0.43 to 8.0.44, which added messaging about version 8’s impending demise.

If nothing else this was a clear signal that MacAdmins, many of whom were just now becoming aware that version 10 existed, needed to start testing it right away. In January of this year we got an update from Microsoft’s David Belanger in the MacAdmins Slack who shared some details of the roadmap, most importantly this piece of information: “…there is no active development on RDC8 and it will eventually be removed from the Store once the critical feedback has been addressed.”

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