Summary

Remote Desktop Services has been around for more than 20 years and is still widely used around the world. It has seen many improvements over the years and continues to be a fantastic way to provide a multi-user virtual platform for your workers, where they don’t have to worry about what local computer they are using to perform the work, and you don’t have to worry about securing whatever that device looks like. You maintain complete control over the centralized RDS compute environment, providing secure access to the resources that employees need.

In fact, RDS is still so commonly used that it has carried over into one of the most common Azure-based resource pools that I find in the SMB market. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop, is a way to provide users with login from anywhere to Azure-based servers that contain virtual user sessions. The capabilities in AVD are extremely similar to RDS on-premises, with the exception...