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title: "Remote Clients for Microsoft AVD"
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updated: 2025-07-02T14:51:56Z
published: 2025-07-02T14:51:56Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/azure-integration-avd"
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# Remote Clients for Microsoft AVD

You can monitor user sessions on virtual machines that are managed by [Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop](https://www.controlup.com/solutions/azure-virtual-desktop/).

## General Prerequisites

To see session data from AVD machines in the Real-Time DX Console and the VDI App, the virtual machine that hosts the virtual desktop sessions must meet the following conditions:

- The AVD machine must run the ControlUp Agent.
- As the ControlUp Agent requires the machine to be domain-joined, you need to connect the machine to Microsoft AVD.

Removed AD DependencyYou can deploy ControlUp Monitors on machines that are not joined to a local Active Directory (AD) domain. For details, see [here](/v1/docs/removed-ad-dependency-for-monitors).

### For Remote Clients (formery Remote DX)

- The client from which you connect to your AVD machine must be a Windows Client OS (Windows 11, 10, 8.1 or 8 or 7 64-bit). Windows Server versions or macOS are **not** supported!

          RDP Client Support

          

When you connect remotely to the AVD machine, use the Azure Remote Desktop Client from our [download center](https://www.controlup.com/products/controlup/download-center/). If you connect from the AVD machine to another AVD machine, **only** the Windows built-in Remote Desktop Connection (MSTSC) client is supported. Other remote desktop managers, such as mRemoteNG or Remote Desktop Connection Manager (SysInternals) **aren't** supported.

## Functionalities

- Active sessions are indicated with SessionName = rdp-sxs* (Taken from the RemoteFX network performance counter).
- The machine is domain-joined and must be manageable by Microsoft Entra ID.

![ControlUp Console displaying a session with session name starting with rdp-sxs.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28136%29.png)

## Using Remote Clients for AVD metrics

In this section, we explain how you can display Client Metrics in the Real-Time DX Console and the VDI App utilizing the Remote Clients plugin. For more information on these metrics, see [Remote Clients - Client Device Metrics](/tim-reorg/docs/remote-dx-client-device-metrics).

**To display Client Metrics in the Real-Time Console:**

1. On the client machine that remotely connects to an AVD machine, install the ***curdx_windows_microsoft.exe*** from our [download center](https://www.controlup.com/products/controlup/download-center/).
2. Deploy the ControlUp Agent on the AVD machine.
3. Open **msrdcw.exe** to establish a Remote Desktop session to your AVD machine.
4. Open the Real-Time Console, navigate to the **Sessions** tab and locate the session that is currently established from your machine.
5. Switch to the **Remote DX** preset to see client device metrics. ![Client metrics displayed in the ControlUp Console.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28677%29.png)