Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guides

First published on CloudBlogs on Oct, 10 2013
Hello everyone, this is Clark Nicholson from the Remote Desktop Virtualization Team. I’m writing today to let you know that we have just published the Service Provide Reference Architecture v2, Multi-Tenant Desktop Hosting Architecture Guide and the Windows Azure Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guide . These documents provide a blueprint for creating secure, scalable, multi-tenant desktop hosting solutions using Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager or using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. We know from customer research that hosted Windows desktops and applications are very desirable cloud services. This is particularly true for small and medium-sized organizations who are trying to expand their businesses while holding down IT costs. However, many organizations have concerns about security, which is inhibiting their adoption of cloud-based services. We have addressed these and other requirements in the Service Provide Reference Architecture v2, Multi-Tenant Desktop Hosting Architecture Guide and the Windows Azure Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guide by using the latest virtualization technologies. For more information, please see Remote Desktop Services , System Center Technical Resources and Windows Azure Infrastructure Services .