

Now let’s move on to the steps you need to take to get started. Reserved instances can be used to reduce Azure costs up to 80%. Windows 10 Enterprise E5 or Microsoft 365 E3, E5, F1, or Business) or RDS CALs can use Windows Virtual Desktop for no additional charge apart from Azure compute/storage and network usage billing. Organizations with “Windows 10 Enterprise E3 Per User” licenses or better (e.g.Windows Virtual Desktop supports full desktop, RemoteApp, and persistent or non-persistent, dedicated or multi-session experiences.Access to FSLogix technology, making your Office experience in a non-persistent environment feel like you are using a traditional PC.(multi-session was historically only possible on Windows Server operating systems.) Windows Virtual Desktop introduces Windows 10 multi-session, allowing you to offer a Windows 10 Enterprise experience where multiple users can log into the same Windows client VM simultaneously via RDP.(The reverse connect technology allows the VMs to be accessed.) They can run using a private IP address and run isolated from other workloads or even the Internet. Virtual machines in Windows Virtual Desktop are not exposed to the Internet directly.Azure is your reverse proxy for RDP traffic.

Instead, an agent creates an outbound connection using TCP/443 into the Windows Virtual Desktop management plane.

Even the default RDP port, TCP/3389, doesn’t have to be open.
