Well, this is huge news: Microsoft acquired FSLogix! We did some extensive testing of FSLogix with Outlook and Skype for Business a while back, which clearly showed the value add of FSLogix. Claudio also wrote a whitepaper on how FSLogix can be used to complement UPDs or even replace it completely.  And now these capabilities are all under one roof. From an RDS / WVD perspective this is great.

Read more about the acquisition here: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/11/19/microsoft-acquires-fslogix-to-enhance-the-office-365-virtualization-experience/

RDS Gurus is thrilled to welcome end-user computing heavy hitter Cláudio Rodrigues to our team. Long time Citrix CTP, Microsoft MVP and entrepreneur with several companies under his belt (see his bio for the details) he brings a wealth of industry knowledge, technical skill and business sense to RDS Gurus. Welcome aboard, Cláudio!

If you did not see the session at Microsoft Inspire, this is big news:

The new RDS “modern infrastructure” is announced, as well as the new HTML 5 web client.

Check out the announcement here: Today at Microsoft Inspire–Next generation architecture for RDS hosting and be sure to sign up for the technical preview! I went ahead and signed up through the survey form, and FYI:

“Due to the limited number of slots available, we may not be able to provide opportunities to all interested customers at this time. We will let you know about the status of your request by end of August 2017.”

So if you want in, sign up now!

We have been asked more than once for documentation on the RDP protocol, UDP transport, RD Gateway protocol, etc. So we have put a list together of this kind of documentation. RDP Protocol Specifications are at MSDN. Go to the  MSDN Library > Open Specifications >. Then go to navigate to Protocols > Windows Protocols > Technical Documents>

The RDP specs are way down in that list under [MS-RDP…]

• [MS-RDPADRV]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Audio Level and Drive Letter Persistence Virtual Channel Extension
• [MS-RDPBCGR]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Basic Connectivity and Graphics Remoting
• [MS-RDPCR2]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Composited Remoting V2
• [MS-RDPEA]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Audio Output Virtual Channel Extension
• [MS-RDPEAI]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Audio Input Redirection Virtual Channel Extension
• [MS-RDPEAR]: Remote Desktop Protocol Authentication Redirection Virtual Channel
• [MS-RDPECLIP]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Clipboard Virtual Channel Extension
• [MS-RDPEDC]: Remote Desktop Protocol: Desktop Composition […]
  

For those interested in learning how much it might cost you to move your Azure RemoteApp deployment or your on premises RDS deployment to XenApp and XenDesktop on Azure, here’s a cost calculator to get you started.

https://costcalculator.azurewebsites.net/costCalculator

This tool takes two paths: Extend your current Citrix deployment into Azure, or move to Azure and let the new Citrix Cloud Service do the heavy lifting (more on Citrix Cloud here).