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Remove or Delete Apple's "User Accounts" from Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client for the Mac

When using the Microsoft Remote Connection Client built by Microsoft for the MAC. It is difficult and challenging to remove a User Account from multiple remote connections in the list that builds up over time. If you make a mistake in the entry there is no easy way I can see to delete a User Account? There is no Remove or Delete User Account. See the images below) I am not saying the actual User who accesses the machine but the user account that is generated from a remote connection from a MacBook Pro per se to a Windows based machine. Does anyone know how to do this? Many support topics at the Microsoft Support site tell you ho to change the Registry Keys in Microsoft but hard to find anything about how to do it on a Mac? Any help appreciated.

From the Mac Tray at the bottom of the screen you see this icon.
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Again I am remoting in from a Mac to a Windows 10 machine. How to remove the user account on the MAC in the Remote Desktop Connection
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I have followed these steps listed from this Google Link
On your Mac:
Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences > iCloud.
Select Keychain.

There is no access for me to Keychain at least for me in that area described above.
So here is what I had to do.
1. I had to setup my Keychain Access. It appears mine was not set up. Not even sure how I did it at this point. New to Apple.
2. Then I went to it under the path shown below (see Image) from there I clicked on the Keychain Access and it showed me a list of all the logins on my Apple. I found what I thought was the issue but not 100% sure now. I have searched on the letters "RDC" in the search bar. Selected what I thought were my logins that I wanted to delete. That did not remove the User Accounts.

So once you get in then to keychain access I am confused as to what is what? Is there a way to know what is the correct Application Password. As there is
Name        Kind          Date Modified         Keychain "Type"  
It appears that after searching for RDC, Microsoft,  Remote, Connection and many other terms that there is no simple way to find the correct items to delete. I did find the LOGIN's for CRYSTAL-SMOKEY and one other (and deleted from the LOGIN section)  but that did not delete the User Account from the list? Restarting did not remove it either.

Do you know how I can remove the appropriate items? The screen shots are from my personal machine. If I have to go by the date I actually created it or last use it. That would make it the needle in a haystack. The business machine has many more connections. I am trying this on my personal machine before I do this on the business machine. Any help appreciated. Thank you.
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You are not even kidding my friend. Apple is an extraordinary company but there are a few things that they should and could clean up about their products. Especially for the price of an apple. I am betting on the business machine at work there are over 100 RDC logins like these on my local machine. They need a remove connection button in this area to keep these clean.  

So for clarity. I just remove the content in the line       Where: com.microsoft.rdc.macos
or is it remove all content in all the lines?.... The one line or all lines?
So is it this?
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Or this? Cause here is why. I already deleted two of these object lines like the image describes below. "CRYSTAL-SMOKEY & rb ." Does that mean that those cannot be removed now?  Cause those are still in the list of connections and not removed???
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Figured out how to do it there is another step to removing the User Accounts. Also learned that 2 days ago (April 4,2019)  Microsoft Remote Desktop for the Mac was updated to a new version 10.2.11
To download you have to go the the APP Store itself. I thought the page in the link itself is the link. There are none that I can see there. Looks like an image. So if you go to the App Store under the Apple Icon Upper Left. Search for it download and update.
In order to remove the User Accounts, you have to go to the Upper Left Hand Corner of the Mac you are on. To Microsoft Remote Desktop and choose. Preferences Then tab to User Account. At the bottom of that window after selecting the user to delete. Click the Negative sign. (See image.)User generated image
Appreciate all you did. Thank you.