Remote Desktop Assistant is a wrapper for Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. It creates RDP configuration files and utilizes the Remote Desktop Client (mstsc.exe). Also, the program combines the features of a ping and port monitor, and a Wake-On-LAN magic packet sender, retrieving automatically MAC addresses of LAN computers. It manages multiple connections and allows to configure more RDP file parameters than the Remote Desktop Client.

It creates RDP configuration files and utilizes the Remote Desktop Client. Also, the program combines the features of a ping and port monitor and a Wake-On-LAN magic packet sender. The Remote Desktop Assistant installer includes the additional utilities: Wake-On-LAN Listener, RDP port configuration tool, and Windows shutdown program, which can be copied used on remote computers.