PowerRemoteDesktop is a PowerShell-based toolkit that provides automation and management capabilities around Microsoft Remote Desktop environments. It exposes functions to enumerate sessions, capture screenshots, pull clipboard contents, and manage connections—allowing administrators to script routine support and monitoring tasks for RDP hosts. Because it operates in the PowerShell ecosystem, it can be combined with standard modules for credentials, logging, and orchestration to implement helpdesk workflows or scaled health checks across many servers. The project tends to be useful in managed Windows estates where remote session visibility and lightweight automation reduce manual clicking in administrative consoles. It is positioned as an ops/productivity aid rather than a replacement for full remote-control software, emphasizing repeatable, auditable scripts for common remote desktop tasks.
Features
- Full remote desktop streaming: send desktop view from server to viewer including screen updates etc.
- Remote control: keyboard input, mouse movement/clicks/wheel from client to server
- Secure communications via TLS (v1.2/v1.3 etc.), with support for custom X509 certificates or default ones
- Authentication: both challenge-based password or certificate fingerprint verification options
- Clipboard synchronization between remote and local systems
- Multi-screen support and cursor icon synchronization, view-only mode also available; optimization to reduce network traffic (only send changed regions)