Here is a cool feature I just discovered in Vista. The remote desktop client can support multiple monitors.

You can access these features using the command line in a few ways:

If you know the dimensions that you want, you can specify the height and width:

mstsc /w:2048 /h:768 /v:(servername)

or if you want mstsc.exe to figure-out the dimensions:

mstsc /span /v:(servername)

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