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Public Preview: Entra ID support for RDP connections in portal

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aarontsang
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Nov 24, 2025
  Overview Azure Bastion provides secure RDP and SSH access to Azure virtual machines directly via the Azure portal or via the native SSH/RDP client already installed on your local computer. Prev...
Published Nov 24, 2025
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raulaav
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Nov 26, 2025

Awesome news. What if the Bastion SKU is Standard, AADLoginForWindows extension is enabled and the role assignment pre-requisites have been met, but Entra ID authentication is not displayed as an option, when looking at the Bastion tab of a Windows Server 2022 Datacenter VM? My chosen region is West Europe - could it be that the feature is not available in all regions and I should test in another? Thank you.