Windows Remote Desktop External Connector 2025
Remote Desktop Services (formerly known as Terminal Services) accelerates and extends desktop and application deployments to any device. Remote Desktop Services improves remote worker efficiency, while helping to keep critical intellectual property secure and simplifies regulatory compliance. Enable virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), session-based desktops, and applications, and allow users to work anywhere. Remote Desktop Services provides three deployment choices, allowing flexibility to deploy the right type of VDI desktop for users, all from a single platform. Host either sessions-based desktop, pooled virtual machines, or personal virtual machines. This External Connector permits multiple external users to access a single Remote Desktop server. If you have multiple servers, you need multiple external connectors in addition to any required Windows Server External Connectors.
Every license option, every segment.
| License option | Term | Segment | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services External Connector - License 1 | One-time purchase | Commercial | $17,468 |
| Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services External Connector - License 1 | One-time purchase | Nonprofit | $4,367 |
| Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop Services External Connector - License 1 | One-time purchase | Education | $4,367 |
Microsoft ERP list prices, US market, from the current CSP price list. Nonprofit and education prices require the matching Microsoft eligibility on your tenant — we verify it as part of the quote.
The licensing rules that actually matter here.
Licensing varies by product — per-core for BizTalk and System Center Datacenter/Standard, per-user for Visual Studio subscriptions.
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