New performance counters for the RD Session Host role are available for the latest Windows Server 2019 preview release! “…One of the most difficult problems to diagnose is poor application performance - the applications are running slow or don't respond. Traditionally, you start your diagnosis by collecting CPU, memory, disk input/output, and other metrics and then use tools like Windows Performance Analyzer to try to figure out what's causing the problem. Unfortunately, in most situations this data doesn't help you identify the root cause because resource consumption counters have frequent and large variations. This makes it hard to read the [...]

Back in January of this year I published a blog post on the one of the first releases of the Microsoft HTML5 client for Remote Desktop Services (called Web Client). You can find that blog post here HTML5 client for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services 2016: Remote Desktop Web Client. This was based on a preview private that I was part of. I’ve seen huge interest for the HTML5 client, and the client is now officially in Public Preview, ready for anyone to test drive! All the information you need: - Set up the Remote Desktop web client for your users [...]

Update: Register for this awesome event here!  TeamRGE has teamed up with GeekOut 365 to deliver a live webinar on January 17, 2018. Benny, Kristin and Freek will be presenting several sessions at the event. "...Planning for the TeamRGE / GeekOut 365 event is in full swing, and though we're still hammering out the final details of the agenda, we're very happy to announce the list of sessions that we'll be hosting during the live webinar this January! Before we get to that, here are the details that we have for you today..." Date of the event: January 17, 2018 [...]

Last week I attended Microsoft Ignite in Orlando and on Tuesday I presented a session on hosting RDS and VDI in the Cloud. This blog post is a recap of the session including links to demos I showed. I started my session with the question whether RDS or VDI would still be relevant today. I pointed out that the application landscape of an average organization today already contains a lot of SaaS and Web based applications. Also, Apps from App stores are becoming more common in the corporate world. These types of applications are already enabled for the modern workplace and [...]

All Remote Desktop Services events logs in a single pane? Every RDS event from machine A and B that has written an event in last 10 minutes? Listen to events from RDS event logs in real time from all RDS related servers in your deployment? Jason Gilbertson, a Technical Advisor at Microsoft who works closely with the RDS Product team wrote a single PowerShell that does all of the above, and much more!! Some of the features: - Export logs locally or remotely to .csv format on local machine grouped by machine name - Convert *.evt* files to .csv - [...]

Introduction This article is part 8 in a series of articles on deploying RDS in Azure IaaS using ARM & JSON Templates. Here is a quick overview of previous articles on this topic. 1. Full HA RDS 2016 deployment in Azure IaaS in < 30 minutes, Azure Resource Manager 2. RDS on Azure IaaS using ARM & JSON part 2 – demo at Microsoft Ignite! 3. Video of Ignite session showing RDS on Azure IaaS deployment using ARM/JSON 4. Windows Server 2016 GA available in Azure! – used it to deploy RDS on Azure IaaS! 5. Azure Resource Manager and [...]

This article is part 7 in a series of articles on deploying RDS in Azure IaaS using ARM & JSON Templates. Here is a quick overview of previous articles on this topic. 1. Full HA RDS 2016 deployment in Azure IaaS in < 30 minutes, Azure Resource Manager 2. RDS on Azure IaaS using ARM & JSON part 2 – demo at Microsoft Ignite! 3. Video of Ignite session showing RDS on Azure IaaS deployment using ARM/JSON 4. Windows Server 2016 GA available in Azure! – used it to deploy RDS on Azure IaaS! 5. Azure Resource Manager and JSON [...]