(Note: previously, RDS was named ‘Terminal Server’). Microsoft RDS, in contrast to VDI, is a server-based technology. This is only available on Azure (not on any other public or private cloud).

As part of WVD, Microsoft also introduces ‘multi-session Windows 10’. Microsoft has introduced Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure (in public beta since March 2019). From an infrastructure perspective, VDI is considered expensive as every user would typically have his own Virtual Machine running a version of Windows and there is no resource sharing. We’ll touch on Windows 10 multi-user capabilities in a later post (as the details are not known, nor public, at the time of this writing).Īs end users can access a remote but ‘dedicated’ operating system, they can also get admin rights and install desktop applications etc. This Virtual Machine is dedicated to the client and cannot be shared. The “host” will typically be a Virtual Machine, but in theory it could also be a PC (on the condition that it’s connected to network and power). In VDI, the client connects to a dedicated “host” running a client version of Windows, such as the Windows 7 or Windows 10 that is running on your laptop. We’re not yet going into the full detail in this post, but we’ll deep dive into some of those areas in subsequent posts. We’ll also explain how Awingu adds benefits on top of RDP and the different ways to deploy it. In, this blog post, we’ll try to bring some structure into the picture, the different options, the different elements, the high-level benefits, and the downsides.

Truth be told, it’s become a complex picture which only a few people really master.

Since then, the RDP technology has evolved rapidly. It helps “clients” connect to “servers” – and in the context of RDP those servers will run operating systems (e.g. In essence, the protocol helps in the setup of ‘Server Based Computing’.

RDP is a proprietary protocol from Microsoft and basically provides users with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network. When Windows XP was released back in 2001, it also baked RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) into the Windows client OS. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY WITH REMOTE WORKING.

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