RDP performance with Azure machines

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Pulsar, you should not be intending to use Azure VMs as virtual workstations. If you want to host Windows applications for end users to run you should check out Azure RemoteApp - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/remoteapp/.

As for your RDP performance, make sure you are hosting your VM in the closest datacenter. http://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/ is a quick way to determine which datacenter is likely to perform the best for you. Also make sure your RDP settings are correct - in the Remote Desktop Connection client app go to the Experience tab and make sure the dropdown is set to 'Detect connection quality automatically'. You can also try a larger size Azure VM to see if that helps.

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Updated on June 05, 2022

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  • Pulsar
    Pulsar over 1 year

    I was surprised that RDP accesses to an Azure machine has low performances.

    While the internet bandwidth from the RDP machine to any internet destination is high, the display of the RDP sessions is quite bad.

    What if I want to create whole virtual networks on Azure for my customers and tell them they just have to RDP these remote workstations ?

    It's almost impossible to display a youtube crisp video and even moving the vertical slider on any explorer window is sluggish

    Does it mean we shouldn't consider using AZURE for virtual workstations?

    thanks

    cyril

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar over 9 years
    Hi. Does it mean AZURE is not designed to build complete virtual networks (servers and workstations) we could coonect to with RDP ? Is my objective (RDP workstations called from thin clients) unrealistic or should I choose another cloud platform? thanks
  • Pulsar
    Pulsar over 9 years
    Even If i drop the idea of VM workstations and only consiser RDP sessions on a server, why is the RDP session so slow. The azurespeedtest indicates WEST Europe or NORTH Europe which is fair since I'm in France.
  • Igorek
    Igorek over 9 years
    At this time, Azure is primarely for servers. There is not even a workstation license of Windows available for Azure, nor is running Win7/8 allowed. RemoteApp is the closest service you get.
  • tomRedox
    tomRedox almost 9 years
    Very tediously however azure remoteapp has a minumum 20 user billing limit and a 400 user maximum cap, so depending on how many clients there are remoteapp may not be the solution.