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RDS - How relevant?
Hi All: Long time user of Windows RDS (and Terminal Services / Citrix before that!) We have a simple RDS infrastructure running on Windows Server 2016, mainly sharing a centralized desktop fo...
Hello,
As always for all architecture-related questions, the response is "it depends".
On your situation, RDS seems to be a well designed solution - however, Microsoft just decided to drop support for Office 365 on Windows Server 2022, and to shorten Office365 support on 2016/2019.
On-premise Windows Server editions get the minimum amount of engineering these days - as far as I know, there are no differences between RDS 2019 and 2022 (and even 2016).
You may keep using using RDS 2016 until Office 365 end of support for it (2025) - for what happens after, it 's Azure (ou Azure HCI) or nothing (or a non-Microsoft solution). Of course, these solutions costs are far higher than on-premise RDS.
As always for all architecture-related questions, the response is "it depends".
On your situation, RDS seems to be a well designed solution - however, Microsoft just decided to drop support for Office 365 on Windows Server 2022, and to shorten Office365 support on 2016/2019.
On-premise Windows Server editions get the minimum amount of engineering these days - as far as I know, there are no differences between RDS 2019 and 2022 (and even 2016).
You may keep using using RDS 2016 until Office 365 end of support for it (2025) - for what happens after, it 's Azure (ou Azure HCI) or nothing (or a non-Microsoft solution). Of course, these solutions costs are far higher than on-premise RDS.