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Free Guide for MSPs

Your roadmap for migrating clients from RDS to Azure Virtual Desktop

Legacy RDS environments are expensive to maintain, difficult to scale, and increasingly hard to justify to clients. This guide gives MSPs a clear, practical path forward: built around real-world migration experience.

  • A licensing breakdown that clarifies what clients will actually pay on AVD
  • Step-by-step migration best practices tailored for MSP workflows
  • How to position the switch as a service upgrade that grows your margins
  • Real-world deployment insights from MSPs who have already made the move

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What's inside the guide

Everything an MSP needs to plan and execute a smooth migration from RDS to Azure Virtual Desktop.


  • The case for moving now: Why RDS is increasingly difficult to justify, and what clients gain from AVD

  • Licensing explained: A plain-English breakdown of what changes, what stays the same, and where you save

  • Step-by-step migration framework: A practical checklist built around MSP workflows and client onboarding

  • Common migration mistakes: What goes wrong most often, and how to avoid the same pitfalls

  • How Nerdio simplifies AVD deployment: Automating the complexity so your team spends less time on setup

MSPs using Nerdio are seeing real results

  • Up to 95%
    Time savings on AVD deployments vs. manual configuration
  • 80%
    Reduction in Azure Virtual Desktop costs reported by MSP partners
  • 50%+
    Improvement in operational efficiency after adopting Nerdio

I wouldn't deploy Azure Virtual Desktop without Nerdio. There are too many moving parts, too many places in Azure where things can change.

Chuck Cox

Senior Network Architect, Griffin Networks

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