On the Program tab page, you can specify a program to start automatically on the remote computer when you establish a Remote Desktop connection with it.

Select the Start the following program on connection option, then specify the program path and file name, and the start-in folder, if needed.

On the Display tab page, specify display properties as follows.

General Options

• Color Depth. Choose the color quality.

• Size. Choose the size of a remote desktop as it will appear on your screen.

• Graphics Acceleration. Choose the graphics acceleration type. The more advanced the acceleration, the better will be the quality of the graphics. Please keep in mind that higher quality accelerations require more processing power and faster network.

• None. No graphics acceleration.

• Basic. Basic acceleration.

• RemoteFX. More powerful graphics acceleration using the RemoteFX codec.

• RemoteFX Adaptive. Best graphics acceleration using RemoteFX Adaptive and H.264 codecs.

Desktop Options

Span desktops across all monitors. If selected, a remote desktop will be spanned across all monitors connected to your local Mac.

The Experience tab page allows you to tweak the connection speed to optimize the performance of the connection with the remote host.

If you are connecting to a remote computer on a local network that runs at 100 Mbps or higher, it is usually safe to have all of the experience options turned on. It is also recommended to enable compression to have a more efficient connection.

Use the Authentication tab page to specify what happens if Network Level Authentication fails.

In the If authentication fails drop-down menu, select one of the following options:

• Connect. The user can ignore the certificate of the server and still connect.

• Warn. The user is alerted about the certificate and still has the ability to choose whether to connect or not.

• Do not connect. The user is not allowed to connect.

Use the Local Resources tab page to configure how local resources are handled by the remote computer.

Audio

Use the Remote Computer drop-down menu to specify whether the remote computer sound should be played on your local computer.

Select Recording (if applicable) to enabled audio recording.

Local Devices and Resources

Clipboard. Select this option to enable the clipboard in a remote session. Clear the option to disable the clipboard.

Folders. Allows you to specify local folders to automatically mount in a remote session. Click the Folders option, then click the Configure button and add the desired folder(s) to the list. When you run a remote application, you will see these folders mounted in the "Drives on user's <computer-name>" folder. Under the list of the added folders you can find the Enable drive redirection cache option that makes file browsing and navigation on the redirected drives much faster.

Smart cards. Enables or disables smart card redirection to be used for authentication.

Video capture devices. Specifies video capture devices to redirect from a user device to the remote session. This is a high-level redirection that allows to redirect a composite USB device, such as a webcam with a microphone. When this option is selected and you click Configure, a dialog opens where you can select the following options:

• All — use all currently connected devices will be used

• Specific only — use only the selected devices

• Limit camera resolution to 720p — limit camera resolution to save data

• Use also devices that I plug in later — a device that is plugged in after a session is started will also be used

Printers. Select this option to redirect local printers.

To specify local printers:

1. Select Printers and then click Configure.

2. In the Select Destinations drop down list, specify All printers or a specific printer.

3. In the Driver drop-down list, select the printer driver to use.

4. Select the Open PDF in Preview option to be able to open PDF documents in preview before printing.

Use the Network tab page to configure a proxy server if you have to use one to connect to a remote computer.

To configure a proxy server, select the Use proxy server option and then select the protocol from the following list:

• SOCKS4. Enable this option to transparently use the service of a network firewall.

• SOCKS4A. Enable this option to allow a client that cannot connect to resolve the destination host’s name to specify it.

• SOCKS5. Enable this option to be able to connect using authentication.

• HTTP 1.1. Enable this option to connect using the standard HTTP 1.1 protocol connections.

Specify the proxy host domain name or IP address and the port number.

For SOCKS5 and HTTP 1.1 protocols, select Proxy requires authentication and enter the credentials.

The Advanced Settings tab page allows you to customize the default behavior or Parallels Client.

You can specify the following properties:

• Connect to Console. This option is used for administration of a Remote Desktop Session Host server. It acts as if a standard Remote Desktop connection is initiated from the command line with the /admin option.

• Use Pre Windows 2000 login format. If this option is selected, it allows you to use legacy (pre-Windows 2000) login format.

• Network Level Authentication. Check this option to enable network level authentication, which will require the client to authenticate before connecting to the server.

• Override computer name. Specifies the name that your computer will use during a remote desktop session. If set, this will override the default computer name. Any filtering set by the administrator on the server side will make use of the name specified here.

To specify the connection information:

1. In the Primary Connection field, specify the remote computer host name or IP address.

2. The Port field contains the TCP port 3389 by default, which is the standard port for RDP connections. You can modify it if the port number was changed on the remote computer.

3. In the Friendly Name field, choose and type a name of your choice.

In the Logon section, specify the following properties:

1. Select the Auto Start options to enable Parallels Client to connect automatically (using this connection) on startup.

2. Enter your username, password, and domain information.

To modify a standard RDP connection properties, right-click it and choose Connection Properties. This opens the connection properties dialog. The following subsections describe the tabs that you can click to view and configure the groups of RDP connection properties.