Hi,
My experience with the VDI solutions is that they typically don't run using RDP directly. Users log in via a web session or using specific client software which orchestrates the creation of the desktop VM as well as set up the remote connection. It may be RDP going on somewhere at the back end but connecting via RDP straight is typically an admin only function.
It is possible to get around this but that typically involves going outside the VDI solution or setting up an always on static VM somewhere else to do this.
Also looking at the Azure managed desktop feature we see similar here as well, although it is possible to just set up a VM in a dedicated vnet.
Andrew.
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From: Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org]
Sent: 09 February 2019 00:45
To: Blind sysadmins list
Cc: Ryan Shugart
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Remote Desktop in the modern age
I agree, I think RDP/Citrix are still widely used. Many (not all) of the VDI solutions are using a fancy web interface, true, but its really just rapping around an RDP client meaning you can use traditional RDP to get in. I'm curious though, I know remote desktop is used heavily among IT pros to access servers for administration and in some cases other desktops for troubleshooting, how widely are these technologies used by rank and file employees? How many people work at companies who have gone/are going the thin client route and how has that impacted your ability to use a screen reader?
Ryan
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From: Andrew Hodgson