DEX! DEX! DEX! Digital Employee eXperience is all the rage these days, and I bet you can't scroll very far in your LinkedIn feed without seeing more than a few posts about it. youtube.com/watch?v=N1uttRL3…

When a connection broker starts acting up in your RDS environment, it's never a good day. In this new RDPHard video, I show you how to troubleshoot your RDS connection brokers like a boss. youtube.com/watch?v=t4t3ZSnF…

🚨 Red Alert! 🚨 Latest Windows updates this week are causing crashes in the Remote Desktop Gateway Service (aaedge.dll). If you are experiencing this problem, roll back this week's updates on your RD Gateway servers. More details here: reddit.com/r/sysadmin/commen…

AVD on Azure Stack HCI = High Cost Insanity Bless their hearts... Please watch my Youtube video and read my blog article below for a detailed list of all the shortcomings in this offering. youtu.be/AzoZNAILR_w purerds.org/azure-virtual-de…

Wow! What a difference a year makes. Microsoft appears to have finally stopped playing games around M365 Apps support for on-premises and private datacenter deployments on Windows Server. Watch my latest video for more details: youtube.com/watch?v=jzBNrlH5…

This is huge. Microsoft has surrendered and stopped playing their "scare you into AVD" games for folks that want to keep rocking RDS/Citrix/Parallels RAS on-premises with O365. 5 years support for each server release is reasonable & makes on-premises RDS a no-brainer costwise.

Happy to announce that I was NOT renewed as a #MicrosoftMVP this year. Ironically, this year I had more contributions than ever before, which speaks to a different factor in play. Stay tuned for a blog post with my thoughts about the state of the program. #truthtopower #mvpbuzz

Despite what some EUC players would have you to believe, classic Remote Desktop Services is going to be around for at least another decade. Why? Watch my video below, which covers what I think about the future of RDS, #Microsoft365 Apps support, & more: youtube.com/watch?v=mzRVchru…

In my second video of my #SupersizeYourRDS series, I show how to properly size, scale, and optimize your #RemoteDesktopGateways for larger #RDS deployments. Connection counts, #loadbalancers, RD Gateway Farms, VM network throughput, & more are covered. youtu.be/Qh23pSeCJfM

"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services won't scale past a few thousand users." Actually, it can, as I've worked with many customers who use #RDS with 20000+ users. But you have to optimize it. Here's my first video in a series on how to #SupersizeYourRDS: youtube.com/watch?v=nYMMInJM…

Tired of Windows & app #updates hosing your #RDS deployments? You can combat that by setting up an #RDS staging deployment, using #WSUS or equivalent to audition updates there first, and then test them before deploying them into production: youtu.be/Mw0gyKKVpCo

#Microsoft364 strikes again! How's that "intelligent cloud" treating everyone this morning?

Layoffs at Microsoft have begun, partially due to lagging Cloud growth and PC sales. While I'm sympathetic to any Microsoft employee affected, this dovetails with what I'm seeing regarding companies leaving Azure & AVD due to high costs. blogs.microsoft.com/blog/202…

Just how secure *is* your #RemoteDesktop Gateway? With its installed defaults, not very secure. You need to tighten up CAPs and RAPs plus layer in #MFA to do things right. My latest RDPHard video explains this in detail. youtu.be/QnafWdr1T30

#Microsoft364 strikes again.