Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a new virtualization service hosted in the Microsoft cloud called “Azure”. It allows multiple users to access one copy of a Virtual Windows 10. This maximizes hardware potential and extends the compute options for Rutgers University. Users can access their applications anywhere that they have an internet connection.

macOS Client: Azure Virtual Desktop

1. Open any browser and go to Microsoft Remote Desktop application in the App Store. Click Open to go to the app store.
2. Log in with your Apple ID if prompted.
   
        
   
   
3. Click Get. 
   • Alternatively you may instead see Open which means that you have already installed the Microsoft Remote Desktop app.
4. Open Microsoft Remote Desktop app.
5. Click Workspaces at the top.
6. Click Add workspace and enter the URL: https://rdweb.wvd.microsoft.com/api/arm/feeddiscovery 
   
        
   
   
7. If you are a non-RBHS student, enter your Scarletmail email address in the format netid@scarletmail.rutgers.edu. If you are an RBHS student, faculty or staff member, enter your Rutgers Connect email in the format netid@domain.rutgers.edu.
   
        
   
   
8. Enter your NetID password.
   
        
   
   
9. Download your workspace if it did not automatically or if there is an update.
   
        
   
   
10. Click on the application you want to open.
11. Enter in your Scarletmail account and password again to launch the application.