Do you have apps that just don’t work across all your end user’s devices? Do your users demand access to apps in places beyond your control, like public or shared computers without domain/workspace join? Do you have apps that simply work better when they’re remoting an experience and not the data?
Chances are you answered yes to at least one of these questions – and probably two.
Today’s GA of Azure RemoteApp delivers all of the amazing capabilities from the preview and adds to it with some additional awesome enhancements. Some of you may have already seen some of these features in action – definitely check out the deep dive session on this from TechEd Europe.
New features in Azure RemoteApp from the initial trial include:
- Global availability
- Full-featured 30-day free trial
- Support for Office 365 ProPlus
- New performance and scale options
- Usage metrics and pricing
- Supported Clients include Windows Phone 8.1
To learn about each of these in great detail, check out this post from the Remote Desktop Services team.
Azure RemoteApp is now 100% production ready, it is very affordable, and it is broadly accessible. This means you can effectively and efficiently use Azure RemoteApp on any device.
This kind of functionality is not only backed by Azure’s SLA (and supported by Microsoft Support, offering the full scalability and security of the Azure cloud), but it will also be a focus of continuous improvement as we listen to your feedback and continue innovating based on your needs.
The post on the Remote Desktop Services blog noted above has a perspective on the value of Azure RemoteApp that I think is pretty insightful for the IT Pros that will be using it, and the CIO’s who need to see the concrete results:
Using Azure RemoteApp, you can deploy your critical business applications in the cloud; manage them through Azure’s convenient interface; and provide your users an intuitive, high-fidelity, WAN-ready user experience. We are ready to host your Windows applications in production: Deploy them in Azure regions globally and turn them into a finished, turn-key, cloud service accessible to users on any device, anywhere in the world.
You can hear even more about this in today’s new episode of The Endpoint Zone:
Getting started with Azure RemoteApp is just about as easy as it gets: To begin, sign in to your Azure management portal and in a matter of minutes (literally!) you can deploy your first RemoteApp collection to users. For those of you without an Azure subscription, click here for a free one.
To learn more about Azure RemoteApp before getting started, take a look at our 5-minute hands-on demo. To see how the Internet Explorer team has used Azure RemoteApp, see RemoteIE app.
This is great technology, built by great people, for great businesses.