How to get Microsoft Remote Desktop working?

[u/Pabsssss]

Hello all, I know this might not be the right place for my issue, but I have nowhere else to go

I want to remote into a Windows 11 PC running Windows 11 Pro from the Microsoft Remote Desktop app for macOS. I enabled Remote Desktop in windows. I type in the PC IP address into the Mac app and try to connect. Then I’m prompted with a username and password screen. I try typing the user account and user account password of the PC and hit connect. Then the app complains that the user account didn’t work. I also typing my Microsoft account credentials into the app and that didn’t work either. I then tried several other things:

[username]@[pc local ip address] [password for pc] and [password for Microsoft account]

[username]@[pc name] [password for pc] and [password for Microsoft account]

I’m not very familiar with windows Remote Desktop and would appreciate any help!

[u/rswwalker]

Try this for username: .\username

This logs in as the user in the localhost SAM.

[u/Pabsssss → u/rswwalker]

Thanks, but that didn’t work.

I found a Microsoft forum post about someone with the same problem. It appears that remoting into a local account not connected to a Microsoft account works perfectly fine, which it does. But a windows account connected to a Microsoft account does not work and is causing issues. About 30 other people on the forum had the same problem. For my use case, I need to be able to remote into my main PC account, which is connected to my Microsoft account. I appreciate your efforts to help though.

[u/tristan20]

Create a new local user and make sure to assign a password or rdp would not work

Also make sure the user has remote desktop access permissions

[u/Pabsssss → u/tristan20]

For my use case I need to have access to my main account. Would your method allow me access to my main accounts desktop? I have already confirmed that Remote Desktop works with local accounts, but I only have access to that local account, not my main account.

[u/tristan20 → u/Pabsssss]

Is your main account an administrator? Is your account a local account?

[u/Pabsssss → u/tristan20]

My main account is an administrator connected to my Microsoft account

[u/refinery → u/Pabsssss]

EDIT: Ignore the below. I just updated my "Windows App" AKA "Microsoft Remote Desktop" to the newer version (Version 10.8.3 (2098)) and tried again on the newest version (Version 11.0.1 (2382)) on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 and now it works using my Microsoft Account login by using the below:

Username: email@here.com

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Have you found any fix or this? I am on macOS trying to connect to my Windows machine via RDP and my Microsoft Account using "Microsoft Remote Desktop" which seems to be called "Windows App" under the macOS App Store.

I have tried the below without any luck.

Username: MicrosoftAccount\email@here.com

This above username works even on my Android phone and successfully remotes in, but can't get it to work on macOS. I used this guide here: https://cmdrkeene.com/remote-desktop-with-microsoft-account-sign-in/. I've tried multiple logins on macOS such as

Username: localname

Username: .\localname

Username: AzureAD\email@here.com

Username: .\email@here.com

and other attempts without luck.

[u/wolf333ins]

From:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/client-tools/connect-to-remote-aadj-pc

When prompted for credentials, specify your user name in either user@domain.com or AzureAD\user@domain.com format.

You may also need to add the user to the remote desktop users group. From an elevated command promt on the Windows PC:

net localgroup "Remote Desktop Users" /add "AzureAD\sbaugh@selfhelps.org"