Remote Desktop Services

Remote Desktop Services let you deliver virtualized applications and provide secure remote and mobile desktop access through remote desktop sessions.

About Remote Desktop Services

Overview

• What is Remote Desktop Services?

Get started

Get started

• Create virtual machines for Remote Desktop
• Supported configurations for Remote Desktop Services
• Supported security configurations for Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Planning poster for Remote Desktop Services

Plan and Design

Tutorial

• Plan and Design your Remote Desktop Services environment

Architecture

• Remote Desktop Services architecture
• Build anywhere
• Network guidelines
• Windows Server 2025 Capacity Planning whitepaper (PDF)

Build and deploy

Tutorial

• Build and deploy your Remote Desktop Services deployment

How-To Guide

• Deploy your Remote Desktop environment
• Create a Remote Desktop Services collection
• License your RDS deployment with client access licenses

Run and tune

Tutorial

• Run and tune your Remote Desktop Services environment

How-To Guide

• Manage your personal desktop session collections
• Manage users in your RDS collection
• Remote Desktop IP Virtualization
• Optimize Windows configuration for VDI desktops

Access your Remote Desktop resources

How-To Guide

• Get started with the Remote Desktop Connection app
• Enable Remote Desktop on your PC
• Allow access to your PC from outside your network
• Uninstall and reinstall the Remote Desktop Connection app

Reference

• Available Remote Desktop clients