Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.1) for Windows XP SP2 x86 platforms (source)

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Hello everyone, we heard a lot of feedback from you about the need for the Remote Desktop Connection client 6.1 to be made available as a standalone install for Windows XP SP2 to ease deployments of Windows 2008 Terminal Services.

In response to this feedback, we have released the Remote Desktop Connection client (RDC 6.1) for Windows XP SP2 on x86 platforms.

You can download RDC6.1 for Windows XP SP2 from the Microsoft Download Center (KB 952155) for the following languages:

Arabic, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese – Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese – Portugal, Portuguese – Brazil, Russian, Spanish – Spain, Swedish, Turkish.

We have also released the MUI package for RDC6.1 on Windows XP SP2 from the Microsoft Download Center (KB 952230).

These are some of the supported features of Remote Desktop Client 6.1 for Windows XP SP2:

  • Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista feature support
  • TS Web Access support
  • TS Easy Print support
  • TS Remote Programs support
  • TS Gateway support

Please review the complete list of features and details about RDC6.1 for Windows XP SP2 in this Knowledge Base article.

 

 RDC6.1 is now available on the following platforms:

 

Windows Server 2008

Windows Vista SP1

Windows XP SP3

Windows XP SP2 (KB 952155)

Reader Comments
At last, they made it
Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:24:16 AM

Guest

Now the last things missing are RDP 6.1 clients for Windows 2000, Mac OS X - and Linux ...

OK - I confess. This was a joke. 

Re: At last, they made it
Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:23:38 AM
Not a joke for some of us that still support some Windows 2000 environments.
Good News for Vista users
Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:14:45 AM
RDP was missing in some Vista versions (home premium) which was a royal pain.  I hope this install will work on those versions.
Re: Good News for Vista users
Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:12:10 AM

Guest
No it won't.  You just need to upgrade to Vista SP1.
where is the 64-bit version?
Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:02:20 PM

Guest
Is there one for WinXP x64 Edition?
Re: where is the 64-bit version?
Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:10:52 AM
RDP6.1 for XP SP3
Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:44:12 PM

It looks like there is no stand alone download for xp sp3. I tried the link above and the package only works on sp2. I have an sp3, check the version of my mstsc.exe it said - shell version / control version 6.0.6001. And also said - Remote Desktop Protocol 6.1 supported.

Does it mean I have the 6.1 already? thx.

Re: RDP6.1 for XP SP3
Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:11:34 AM

Guest
Yes, SP3 already has it.
Product Manager - Client Virtualization
Friday, June 27, 2008 4:31:42 PM
Anyone knows if standalone RDC 6.1 is also available for XP embedded?
Support for Windows 2000
Friday, June 27, 2008 7:52:53 PM

Guest

There is still roughly a bit over year before Windows 2000 extended support ends. I simply don't understand why there isn't an RDC Client 6.1 for Windows 2000. There are still hundreds of thousands of Windows 2000 environments out there that admins like us support on a daily basis. There should be a client for 2000.

I've spoken to a few Windows experts and they all agree that there is really no technical reason complex enough to prevent this new client from working on Windows 2000. The only reason is that they want to start exiting Windows 2000 support.  

Re: Support for Windows 2000
Monday, June 30, 2008 8:38:44 AM

Guest
I fully agree. We have an environment with limited IT budgets (non-profit sector). Most of the PC's are PIII 1 GHz, 256 Mb RAM, 40 Gb HD, W2K and Office 2000. These pc's are old, but are more then performant enough to run TS sessions. We are replacing the current server environment (8 years old, W2K Server) with a complete new blade system fully based on Windows 2008 server and Terminal Server. But now it seems to be impossible to use the old W2K pc's with TS Web Access, since the new RDP 6.1 client is a must for this. And upgrading the old pc's to XP SP2 or SP3 is no option, due to cost alone for the licenses.
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