After reviewing more Azure setups this quarter than I care to admit, I keep spotting the same tired anti-pattern: organizations still exposing VMs with public IP addresses just to RDP in. Let’s be blunt: it’s lazy, it’s risky, and in 2025, it’s downright embarrassing. The Old RDP Model — A Security Horror Show Traditional RDP…
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Your PC’s Dead. Long Live the Cloud: Why Azure Virtual Desktop Is the New King of Workstations
hi. u ever stared at ur laptop in an airport, praying it doesn’t crash right before a client demo? or watched an intern accidentally toast a finance tool on their fifth Chrome tab? or maybe u just need to give secure access to 15 contractors without shipping them all ThinkPads and VPN tokens… yeah, classic….
Global Expansion of TURN Relay Infrastructure for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Effective Date: June 15, 2025New IP Subnet: 51.5.0.0/16 Microsoft is expanding the global infrastructure supporting RDP Shortpath by introducing a dedicated TURN relay IP range across 40 Azure regions. This update is a major leap in performance and reliability for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), particularly in environments with strict network policies or…