How to Properly Update Your Remote Desktop Services Environments
Windows OS and other application updates have the potential to wreck your RDS deployments, as I discussed at length recently at my RDPHard Twitter feed. Last year, Microsoft’s QA team let through...
View ArticleScaling RDS Environments – Part 1 – Optimizing Connection Brokers
Hey everybody. I’ve been wanting to write this blog series for a long time, because it tackles one of the greatest misconceptions about Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Namely, that it can’t scale...
View ArticleScaling RDS Environments – Part 2 – Optimizing Remote Desktop Gateways
Greetings fellow readers, RDPHard channel subscribers, and valued customers. In my previous blog article and video in this series, I discussed how to optimize your connection brokers for larger RDS...
View ArticleWhy Remote Desktop Services Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon
Recently I’ve heard industry scuttlebutt that has people freaking out and thinking that Remote Desktop Services is going away. I think a lot of this has to due with Microsoft’s constant marketing...
View ArticleThe State of the Microsoft MVP Program
Well, after a long, seven year run, I’m officially no longer a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Given what’s happened over the last 24 months, I’m not surprised about my non-renewal, but I’m...
View ArticleShould I Consider Using Parallels RAS to Extend My RDS Deployment?
Greetings, gentle readers. I’m back from my summer blogging hiatus and am ready to tackle a subject that comes up from time to time when talking to my customers around the world. Specifically, have...
View ArticleM365 Apps Support Now Guaranteed on RDS Until 2029!
Hey everyone! Apologies for my hiatus from the RDPHard channel and PureRDS.org blog, but during the second half of this year, I’ve been hard at work leading new development efforts at RDPSoft. About a...
View ArticleAVD on Azure Stack HCI (High Cost Insanity)
Well, gentle readers, Microsoft has finally announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI. As you might suspect from the title of this post, I’m definitely not a fan....
View ArticleDo You Even Sysmon, Bro?
Hi everyone. I’m back with a new video, this time discussing how critical it is to deploy Microsoft’s free Sysmon utility on all of your RDS and or other multi-user computing platforms, like AVD,...
View ArticleTroubleshoot Your Connection Broker Like a Boss
Howdy RDS fans! Today I’m going to show you how to troubleshoot your connection brokers like a boss. I’m sure you already know this, but in case you don’t, the connection broker is the brains of your...
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