RDP Version Number?

Does any know how to get the RDP version Windows is running with?

5 Answers

Or you could Right click on the window and select About

Windows RDP uses the executable mstsc.exe located in c:\windows\system32

Simply right click on this file, and go to properties, then click the version tab.

hope this helps.

or you could also click Start > Run > mstsc and when you see the Remote Desktop Connection window appear, click the top left hand corner "computer" icon and select "About".

Here's a PowerShell query you can use:

wmic datafile where name="C:\\windows\\system32\\mstsc.exe" get manufacturer, name, version

There can be maybe better way with PowerShell.

First one need complete table of MSTSC build numbers and just compare to output of:

(Get-Item C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe).VersionInfo.FileVersion

And the second one is to read CLSID of registered components which contain also RDP binaries, like that:

$Current = 0
$GUID = Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID" | Select Name
$GUIDNum = Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID" | Select Name | Measure
While($Current -ne $GUIDNum.Count) {
$Path = $GUID[$Current] | Select -ExpandProperty Name
$GUIDName = ((get-itemproperty -literalpath "Registry::$Path").'(default)')
If ($GUIDName -like 'Microsoft RDP Client Control (redistributable) - version*')
{
Write-Host $GUIDName
}
$Current++
}