Azure Virtual Desktop - Microsofts' PaaS Solution that enables you to quickly provide Remote App/Full Desktop functionality in a secure way
August 24, 2023
Azure Virtual Desktop - Microsofts' PaaS Solution that enables you to quickly provide Remote App/Full Desktop functionality in a secure way
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Azure Virtual Desktop
As a MSP we are always looking for the most performand and most secure solution to provide our customers the ability to work from anywhere. With Azure Virtual Desktop we have a secure and streamlined solution to do so. Because a lot of the technical implementation is now handled by Microsoft itself (PaaS) it has become even less cumbersome to deploy a new AVD environment within minutes instead of hours/days
- Secure Access (Identity management by Azure, including MFA and other security measures)
- Scalability (scale up or down servers depending on the load of the systems)
- Licensing Structure is very clear
- While it is PaaS it would be nice to have some monitoring insights into some parts of the offering
- Migrating user sessions from one host to another (to be able to downscale) would be awesome
- It would be nice to have a more seamless deployment of FSLogix in a AVD Enviroment
- Security
- Scalability
- Extensibility
- Before Azure Virtual Desktop we had a harder time to convince our customer to move away from their aging on premise solution (RDS , Citrix, ...)
- When offering Azure Virtual Desktop we also combine it with getting the Endpoints up to date, hardware wise but also getting a clean start, joining them in Azure AD , ...
- Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS)
For us Parallels RAS is still more a "onpremise" solution, with Azure Virtual Desktop we can really leverage the power of the cloud.
We can spin up additional hosts if the load is too high and spin down hosts in the night to cut costs. Not being bound to onpremise hardware makes this extremely flexible.
Seeing as most of our customers already have a M365 license that includes Azure Virtual Desktop licensing it doesn't cost us additional CAL's for Parallels RAS
We can spin up additional hosts if the load is too high and spin down hosts in the night to cut costs. Not being bound to onpremise hardware makes this extremely flexible.
Seeing as most of our customers already have a M365 license that includes Azure Virtual Desktop licensing it doesn't cost us additional CAL's for Parallels RAS
Do you think Azure Virtual Desktop delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Azure Virtual Desktop's feature set?
Yes
Did Azure Virtual Desktop live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Azure Virtual Desktop go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Azure Virtual Desktop again?
Yes