Windows 10: Remote Desktop web client public preview for Windows Server 2016

Source: Remote Desktop web client public preview Enterprise Mobility + Security

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Hello,

New for Windows 10

Remote Desktop preview app for Windows 10 - You can
get it from the Microsoft store on any device running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

 

Remote Desktop App not working

I am using the non-metro (old-style) Remote Desktop client to remotely access a VirtualBox VM (using the remote display option). This works perfectly fine. I am not able to use the new Remote Desktop Metro app to connect to the same machine.

I am running Windows 10 home on my client machine. To summarize: The server is perfectly fine and it works well with the old remote desktop client application. My problem is with the new Remote Desktop App. It stays on 'Initiating remote connection' then
fails with the error 'Can't connect to remote PC'. I have tried both version of the metro app, the one that came with windows 10 and the new preview version. Both don't work.

What's wrong with the new metro style RDP client?

 

Aimed at Windows 10 on Arm I'm guessing?

 

I thought the host must be server but client can be anything with a browser (so your phone).

After reading the links I'm not so clear about this though - as per normal reading their documentation means I know less than if I randomly guessed.

This is my normal response to MS documentation with their links that go no-where and descriptions of a tiny bit of functionality without any context which lead you back to guessing what (if anything) their point was. A singularly odd sort of website.

 

This is more for companies and not directed to consumers really. It adds remote desktop option to Azure services when you log into their portal page. And because it's device agnostic, it means you can launch it from pretty much any device with a web browser.

 

Thanks. They aren't really clear here though:

Welcome to Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2016 | Microsoft Docs

Which then links you immediately into seemingly random (very short 3 sentence pages) pages about Windows 7 compatibility, RemoteFX and managing accounts on Android. I'm sure it is useful stuff but the website navigation is terrible. Even if it was useful to me (which it probably isn't) having to navigate 15 pages to find one sentence is terrible website design.

They really could and should put slightly more detail on a page.

But then, I'm not the target audience I guess. Perhaps the managers who buy azure services do it on their phone.

 

This > "for Windows Server 2016" < to me says its for Corporate not Consumer.