RDP to Azure VM with sound - Mic is not coming over

Question

trying to connect to Azure VM and use Teams on the VM, but Microphone does not come over

modified the RDP file and selected to bring audio over.

This work fine when i RDP to any other Windows machine, but not on the Azure VM

Does Microsoft put something in place to block MIC access ?

Answer 1

Hi @Victor

You need to do some steps for the microphone and video to work, I answered a question here that shows how to do this

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/957460/microphone-and-video-not-working

The steps I did, I went in the group policy of the windows client run -> gpedit.msc Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Connection Client > RemoteFX USB Device Redirection - set "Allow RDP redirection of other supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer" option to Enabled. ensure that the RemoteFX USB Redirection Access Rights are set to "Administrators and Users"

Also configure the other policie: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection - set "Allow audio and video playback redirection" to Enabled

On the server I configured the policies: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services> Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment > RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2 -set "Configure RemoteFX" to Enabled

Restart your computer and server (or run gpedit /force) and you will see that a new option will appear on your client:

If your device supports it you will be able to use

Get in touch if you need more help with this issue.

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