Hello, my name is Ravi Ashok and I work in the Remote Desktop Services team. Today I would like to share with you the Azure RemoteApp user experience. Last month, Azure RemoteApp became generally available, enabling businesses to provide their Windows...

My name is Livi Erickson, and I am a Program Manager on the Remote Desktop team. Today, we’re excited to announce that Remote Desktop for iOS 8.1.6 update is now available for download on the Apple App Store . This update contains a number of bug fixes...

Need some help planning a large scale, highly efficient Personal Desktop deployment that leverages Storage Tiers and Data Deduplication?  If so, our friends on the File Server team published a detailed white paper just for you: Large scale Virtual...

My name is David Bélanger, and I work in the Remote Desktop team. Today marks the release of the last update to the Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Windows Phone 8.1 for 2014. We are still hard at work on enabling support for Remote Desktop Gateway...

Hello Everyone, We broke the news to you last week that we plan to make Azure RemoteApp generally available. The day is upon us. With today’s release, Azure RemoteApp is now general ly available! Starting today, Azure RemoteApp is available for purchase...

My name is Eva Seydl and I work on the Remote Desktop team. I’m happy to describe the latest features we have introduced to Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta on Android versions 8.1.3 and 8.1.4. If you have missed the first blog post on test driving our Beta...

Our friends over at Dell announced the release of Wyse vWorkspace 8.5.  This solution builds upon customers existing Microsoft infrastructure and provides a complete scalable desktop virtualization solution.   vWorkspace 8.5 now includes...

Remote Desktop Services MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) Freek Berson and Kristin L. Griffin previously posted an excellent step-by-step guide on using Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server to provide two-factor authentication to a Remote...

My name is Sandeep Patnaik, and I work in the Remote Desktop team. We are excited to announce support for Office 365 in Azure RemoteApp. Starting today, you will be able to publish Office 365 ProPlus applications as a RemoteApp to your end-users. With...

In a previous blog post we explained how to configure Remote Desktop certificates for Windows 7. In Windows 8 (and 8.1) and Windows Server 2012 (and R2) configuring Remote Desktop certificates has become easier: 1. It is no longer required for the template...

Hello everyone, this is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop team. I am writing today to let you know that the Azure Load Balancer now supports client IP affinity which resolves the previous incompatibility with the RD Gateway role service. You can...

My name is David Bélanger, and I work in the Remote Desktop team. The latest update (v. 8.1.6) for the Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Windows Phone 8.1 brings our first enterprise focused feature by adding support for Azure RemoteApp , a new...

Hello everyone, this is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop team. We have just published additional guidance to extend a basic Remote Desktop Services (RDS) deployment in Azure virtual machines . The RemoteApp Programs Deployment document provides...

Last week we had the privilege of helping present various topics around Remote Desktop.  If you did not have the opportunity to attend in person, here is the list of sessions presented that are related to Remote Desktop that you can watch from the...

Over the past year we have been busy working on several requested features and capabilities for RemoteFX vGPU. During this time, we have been talking to several customers and partners like you to improve the features and capabilities for graphics virtualization...

We are happy to announce the launch of RemoteIE .    RemoteIE allows developers to test the latest version of IE from Windows, MacOS, Android, or iOS clients on a service developed using Azure RemoteApp .  Read all about this new use...

Please join us on November 5 th , 2014 for an overview webcast all about Azure RemoteApp.  In this webcast, we will discuss delivering applications from the cloud with Azure RemoteApp. This scalable, agile cloud service will enable your users to...

Hello! I am Tanmay Bhagwat, a Program Manager on the Remote Desktop team working on Windows MultiPoint Server, Remote Desktop Session Host, Desktop Experience, and Azure RemoteApp. With the release of the Windows Server Technical Preview, we are excited...

Hello, my name is Ayesha Mascarenhas, and I work on the Remote Desktop team. Today, I would like to tell you about the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Beta app we released on Google Play. Those of you using Android devices today may already be familiar with...

Hello Everyone, Periodically we receive questions on how RDP fits into the protocols that Microsoft produces. The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is part of the Open Specifications initiative . For example, through the Open Specifications program, developers...

Hello everyone. This is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop team. Many of you have deployed Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Azure Infrastructure Services based on the Azure Desktop Hosting - Reference Architecture and Deployment Guides . Now you...

Hi, I’m Shanmugam Kulandaivel from the Remote Desktop team. Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 brought significant enhancements to the user experience, simplified RDS management and lowered the total...

My name is David Bélanger, and I’m a program manager on the Remote Desktop team working on Remote Desktop apps. The October update for the Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app brings a few tweaks to the app and some bug fixes as we continue focusing most...

My name is David Bélanger, and I’m a program manager on the Remote Desktop team. This blog highlights the different gestures available on the Microsoft Remote Desktop apps. Unless specifically noted, these gestures apply to apps running on the following...

Important update 10/8 : We’ve had a number of users report back that they’ve been unable to connect via an RDP gateway with error code 0x03000008 since the 8.1.0 update. We are actively working on resolving this error and pinpointing the issue to find...