Windows 10: How to use multiple monitors with the new Windows 10 Remote Desktop app?

This question is not about the ubiquitous RDP client that has been on windows for many years, this question is regarding the new Windows 10 Remote Desktop app, which must have been packaged in an update at some point.


The app I'm speaking about can be found on the windows store, and is suggested as a client on the second row of this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...sktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-clients next to "Windows Store"

I would like to be able to use both of my monitors at home while I am working remotely, to utilize the two monitors at my workstation.

The old RDP program that has existed for well over a decade has an option under the display settings that says "Use all my monitors for the remote session" which works perfectly well to this end.


Either the new client does not have this option, or I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know if there's a setting I've missed, or perhaps a workaround that does not involve stretching the window of the session to span both of my monitors?

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Microsoft Remote Desktop APP (NOT Connection!) Multiple Monitors

Just switched to Windows Server 2016 Standard implementing RDS. We want remote users to be able to use Timezone redirection and enabled it in Group Policy. It does not work with the Remote Desktop Connection so after hours of trying we tried the Microsoft
Remote Desktop APP. It works in the App so we decided to switch EXCEPT we just found that the APP does not seem to support multiple monitors.

So more Microsoft frustration. We have to decide which is more important, timezone or multiple monitors.

Has anyone been able to get multiple monitors to work with the Microsoft Remote Desktop APP?

 

Microsoft Remote Desktop APP (NOT Connection!) Multiple Monitors

Hello! I am an Independent Advisor, I would love to help you out!

Just to make sure you are talking about the Microsoft remote desktop app for windows and not a mobile platform correct?

Unfortunately, I am not finding a way to do it in the Microsoft remote desktop app from the app store.

However, the built-in remote desktop app "Remote Desktop Connection" does have a way to do multiple monitors.

Here is a forum showing the answer to this as the first reply:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/win...

 

How do I make the Windows 10 Remote Desktop app work with multiple monitors?

I've got a problem for which searching, either by Bing or Google, didn't help. At my office I have 2 monitors connected to my Windows 10 Enterprise machine. Remove connection is enabled. When I am away from my office I use my work issued Windows 10 Enterprise
laptop, with another monitor connected to it. I want to be able to connect to my desktop at work and have both of the monitors at work, appear on the 2 monitors on the laptop. I know of the Remote Desktop Connection application in Windows, which is the Win32
app. I've used it before and it does do what I want, but I do

NOT

Want to use the Win32 version. And this is where every single search I've done has failed for me. They all returned only help for setting up multiple monitors using the Win32 version. I have downloaded and
installed the Remote Desktop app from the Windows Store. That is the app I want to use. And I do not see anywhere at all in the Remote Desktop Windows Store app which allows me to use multiple screens locally with the remote displays remotely. How do I do
what I'm trying to do with the app I want to use to do it with?

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