Microsoft's on-premises way to publish desktops and apps remotely from Windows Server, which means hosting your own broker and gateway machines. Azure Virtual Desktop is the cloud replacement.
Also called Remote Desktop Services.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure-hosted Windows desktop and app service; to add or remove session hosts in a host pool you use either an Autoscale scaling plan or Automation runbooks.
Related terms
- Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
Detects threats like brute-force attempts against Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL flexible servers, as well as Amazon RDS engines in linked AWS accounts; one of the Defender for Cloud plans.
- Remote Desktop Gateway
Lets people outside reach internal desktops without opening port 3389, by carrying RDP inside HTTPS on TCP 443. A Remote Desktop Services role.