Windows 7 Remote Desktop with Dual Monitor

Works great! It seems that a key to getting it to work is to have both monitors on the local system set to identical resolution.

Here is a very nice write-up. This blog, like others, seemed to hint that this will only work if both system are "Ultimate" or "Enterprise", however, it worked well for me and my remote system was "Professional"

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/use-multiple-monitors-with-windows-7s-remote-desktop-connection/

One key not mentioned in the above link is to run the remote desktop app in /span mode, which seems to mean starting it in a cmd window with this command:

mstsc /span

This link goes into setting up the two monitors to be identical in size:

http://www.splitview.com/using-remote-desktop-with-dual-monitors-in-span-mode

Here's the same info from M$:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/windows-7-remote-desktop-with-multi-monitor/6bf0d5e3-644f-404e-baaf-ff2085e1c2c2