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Windows Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator
The Windows Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator is now live! Use the estimation tool to view the round trip time your end users would experience with Windows Virtual Desktop. The tool uses the locat...
We have just deployed this service at Santos Ltd and will look at dropping it if a gateway is not set up for Australia as the response times are just too slow remoting into the machine outside of RDS (e.g. using RDP we have great performance but it's not practical) dhavalg
Peter Campbell Agreed. We are doing RDP for now just to build the environment. We've put off too many projects waiting for WVD to go GA that we can't hold off anymore. Citrix is a great paring for now but additional cost.
Massively disappointing but hopefully soon!I was told by a WVD Specialist to use Citrix cloud too .....
It's cheaper to use our own on-prem Citrix farm We are only looking at this as its cheaper but paying for Citrix licensing negates the cost-saving on the multi-session Windows license and user CAL licenses...
If I took that to my management team they would laugh!
- Christian_Montoya
Microsoft
Peter Campbell Paul Maranzano roshanny : Just confirming what's been highlighted in most of the discussions, we are continuing to expand these service instances to reduce latency. We are definitely hearing lots of interest both in Australia and Southeast Asia, so we're working on expanding there. We should have more information for you in the next few weeks.
