Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Remote Desktop - 5 Device CAL

*Note that this is a license for 5 Device Client Access License (CAL) for Windows Server 2019.

Simplify IT Management

Windows has improved management of Remote Desktop Licensing server and entitlement through Active Directory (AD)

• Leverage high availability RD Licensing servers with forward-compatibility for future versions of Windows Server to enable easier management of licenses from a variety of RDS releases.
• Manage licenses for your employees by bringing the ability for the RD Licensing servers to update RDS user Client Access Licenses (CALs) into AD objects without accessing AD directly.
• Performance Counters APIs provides partners an easy way to access data to build monitoring dashboards and deliver a consistent user experience.

User Experience

End users will be able to leverage desktops and apps through RDS 2019 to maximize productivity.

• Modern notifications for RemoteApp in the Action Center improve productivity with applications like Microsoft Outlook.
• Discrete Device Assignment in RDS 2016 to bring better security, virtual machine (VM) isolation, and performance for your graphic-intensive workloads. These improvements in GPU virtualization technologies will result in reduced network traffic and smooth video playback.
• Reduced CPU usage on the client and server and bandwidth gives better image quality and faster end-to-end web client experience.

Security 

• With Windows Admin Center integration, it is easy to consolidate all local and remote server management into a single pane.
• Windows Defender optimizations for multi-session give you more confidence in bringing a secure, scalable and cost-effective desktop experience to end users.
• Web client support for Single Sign-on (SSO) delivers a streamlined authentication experience for users connecting via the web client.
• A few additional features include easy-to-configure DTLS-based encryption, all of which, work toward providing a trusted end-to-end RDS deployment.