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Last active August 19, 2025 07:09
Remote Desktop Managers and CyberArk PSM

Using Remote Desktop managers to leverage PSM or SIA in CyberArk

This gist will take on the use cases of using RD managers with PSM or SIA to bypass the need of going to the PVWA every time you want to connect.

In most use cases the PVWA way of working is enough for the end user. We are talking about the average end user using privileged accounts for certain tasks, whether it be general application maintenance, external vendors supporting a product or just general IT workforce doing their daily job.

But in some cases this way of working will be a hinderance and can slow down the workflow of a section of IT workers. The group I'm talking about is server infrastructure managers. This workforce usually have the task of installing and updating servers, and that usually happens in large batches. In these use cases going to the PVWA to launch a session is just tedious and will not be effective.

This is where Remote Desktop managers come in. Here IT personnel can group connections based on servers rather than