Azure Virtual Desktop Reviews & Insights

Score7.9 out of 10

53 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Azure Virtual Desktop are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Security Features: Users have appreciated the robust security measures offered by Azure, such as identity management, multi-factor authentication, and other advanced security protocols. The platform's emphasis on data protection has garnered positive feedback from customers.

Scalability: Reviewers have highlighted Azure's seamless scalability, allowing them to easily adjust server capacities in response to fluctuating system demands. This flexibility in resource allocation has been a significant advantage for users.

Pay-as-you-go Model: Customers find the pay-as-you-go model of Azure advantageous due to its transparent licensing structure that aids in effective cost management. Additionally, users value the predictability and control this pricing model provides for optimizing expenses based on usage requirements.

Reviews

17 Reviews

Azure AVD good choice for moving virtual desktop to the cloud

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We leverage AVD for all non-persistent desktops, this allows us to follow our cloud first strategy, this is leveraged in US-East region and support users globally.

Pros

easy setup
multiple configuration options
minimal latency

Cons

Capacity issues in specific regions
Cost between different cpu options
can be buggy at times

Likelihood to Recommend

This is a good product to get virtual desktops into the cloud and for use with non-persistent desktops.
There are better options available if you need persistent desktop's.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Amazing to use

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I need to access the client-server system to install our application and check on that. For our product, we have to give a virtual machine to each client by which we can access that as a server.

Pros

Easy to configure
Manage the resources
Easy to integrate with dotnet environment
No physical contact required
We Install and use the machine from anywhere in the world

Cons

Nothing much
Little expensive for small business and learners

Likelihood to Recommend

There is a process where we have to create/access the client-server to run the application. For each client, we need to follow the process, and it is really user-friendly to work on. Sometimes the connection breaks down suddenly, but it is rarely happening.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Virtual Desktop Heaven

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implemented the Azure VD solution to create a secure, resilient, and reliable environment for our users' ERP needs. In our case, they use SAGE. We deployed over 50 VMs and can scale them easily depending on the client's needs. The fact that users can access any computing device including tablets and Macintosh is another plus.

Pros

Security
Scalability
Pay as you go model

Cons

Windows Remote client can be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

The pay-as-you-go model was one of the best features for our clients as their user numbers can scale up or down depending on the season. Being in the cloud, the Virtual Desktop solution helps us to cope easier with our remote users as well as partner or guest accounts as it is very easy to deploy secure environments for them.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Azure Virtual Desktop

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 15, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Was able to scale up several environments in short order with little effort. Used Azure Virtual Desktop to spin up 100's of desktops in hours, this would take days or weeks to do with physical hardware. Was also able to leverage built in monitoring tools to keep eye on the VD's. Great product

Pros

Creation of virtual enviroment
Scaling
Security

Cons

Built in monitoring capability

Likelihood to Recommend

Securely access work applications regardless of where user is. Able to rapidly deploy 100s of desktops for a change in remote work. This saved us significant cost on physical hardware and speed up security process. We had users accessing the new environments in hours vs days. Was no impact to operations.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A way to virtualize your Desktop.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Virtual desktop Application that provide easy access to the users.

Our goal as an organization is to provide web access to the remote connection and allows user works from any place needed.

Good solution as well to get system with good policy and settings.

Pros

how Machine get published
control and access
security

Cons

Logs and filtering on main system.
Main management console.
Multiple steps needed to get things set.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Virtual Desktop is a great tool to access a desktop on an organization from any place the user needs to.

It gives the option to connect from multiple platforms which allows the works simple at the time to connect.

The AVD allows have full access to a virtual machine, which is less appropriate if people prefer to only give APP access.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Best in market to save cost of windows license for common applications

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 13, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Azure Virtual Desktop or AVD on large scale as a Common Shared desktop to showcase our test builds to end users. as we have a large team, we used separate instances for all builds. Azure Virtual Desktop played a vital role in removing this bottleneck. now we use a single AVD desktop for all the testing.

Pros

scaling
using our own image
seamless multi-session capabilities

Cons

UI can be updated
Higher DPI would have been welcome
lags on low end devices

Likelihood to Recommend

if you're having a testing team that works on testing load for various scenarios, as we have here, dev, test, quality & production build. this is an ideal use case to implement AVD, especially if you're staff is all work from home. they will just require AVD and they're ready to go.

Zeel Pandya

SAP ABAP Consultant in Information Technology at AeonX Digital Solutions (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Azure Virtual Desktop is great solution for end users resources and access management

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Virtual Desktop or AVD is widely used in our company for multiple purposes and by multiple users. Used from IT Admins for admin\jump servers, used from permanent employees when their hardware is late for delivery, used from externals\contractors that temporarily used company resources, and used as a single (dedicated) host scenario or multi-user environment when we can optimize the resources in use. With advanced resources management, we can manage our resources even better and save a lot of company money.

Pros

Resources management
Simplicity
Managability
Advance and complex technology use
Latest tech available

Cons

Resources management without external (3rd party) solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to configure, establish and provide resources to users. A really good option when a golden image needs to be prepared and used from the next provisioned host, but also easy to update and provision additional hosts for the next users. Host decommission or removing access to the resources is easy and can be done by all levels of IT employees.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Good tool for enabling work life balance through remote working capabilities

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to allow every user authorised access to the organisation’s information assets from anywhere through authorised company devices

Pros

Efficient backups to one drive
Fast and easy migration from one laptop to another
Ability to work from anywhere so long as you have internet access

Cons

To not only backup documents folder but also other folders eg desktop and downloads

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for businesses that want to adopt remote working without losing control of its information assets as the data is centrally managed.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Super fast and maintenance free

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Virtual Desktop has been a game changer in terms of performance delivering with reduced cost to company, my IT department were having different computer machines with lower computing power. With Azure virtual desktop we were having a flexibility to use more powerful system with enhanced memory and CPU power on the same machine with lower configuration. It reduced the cost to buy a new equipment and the power which was delivered way better than the actual systems in the teams with higher configurations. Launching and supporting application which required more resources is now a cake walk

Pros

Better computing power
Configurable System and as per team needs configuration can be added or removed at ease
Internet Connectivity within the cloud system is way better than our home / office internet connections
No heating issues on personal machines, leaving all the worry on actual data center machines

Cons

Only issue is this system requires high ping speeds on client end so that screen from cloud is received to client side, if not then we see a lag in screen from virtual desktop
If someone from admin changes some configuration for a group, it is reflected on every machine, more control should be given to end user to atleast restart the system or restore the system to its previous state

Likelihood to Recommend

Users with older machines and when the IT department is facing the crunch in procuring the actual system due to ongoing pandemic.
Users with more computing power can use these machines, which can work at better speeds and give out better results and faster speed.
If the end user internet is not perfect that is it is low speed or ping then it is not recommended to use these systems

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Never Disappoints

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have our applications hosted via the cloud and the Azure Virtual Desktop makes it more streamlined for us to access multiple applications at once. Able to set different permissions for different users. There are many other similar programs but I say from a Microsoft environment this one is the best one. Integrates with our system

Pros

User Interface
Connection
Stability

Cons

Extra training
more in depth guides
Best case scenarios

Likelihood to Recommend

When I need to connect virtually know Azure Virtual Desktop is there for me to use and connect to my application. We have multiple apps in our environment. Room for growth in the future as well and a system that gets patched and updated frequently without any issues or problems.

Edgard Ocampo

IT system Admin in Information Technology at Arachnid 360 (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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