How to adjust the RDP settings in Bastion?

Question

Hello,

For some reasons, I have to directly connect to my Virtual Machine using the Windows native client. The command line below is one I am using.

az network bastion rdp --name "<BastionName>" --resource-group "<ResourceGroupName>" --target-ip-address "<VMIPAddress>"

I have a window which looks like that.

I was expecting to get something like below to adjust the RDP setting to high bandwidth.

If anyone can help, it would be highly appriciated.

Thanks a lot!

_dje

Answer 1

Hello, @88584882 ! I've done some additional research and I'm including it here in the answer below. I hope this helps!

How do I adjust RDP settings in Bastion?

When using Bastion, there are fewer RDP options available to you as a lot of this is done behind the scenes:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/native-client

As you can see here, when using native client Bastion connects to the VM via RDP from within the NSG and then relays the connection back to you via 443, Internet:

There are some advanced configuration options depending on how you configure Bastion:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/configuration-settings

These are largely out of scope for single user scenarios (like instances and host scaling) but I did notice that during my own testing, I was seeing much better performance while watching video even in full screen when compared to a classic RPD connection without Bastion. While not quite a desktop experience, I was getting roughly half the frame rate in full screen with some noticeable slow downs when watching full frame animation media as opposed to a presenter:

Additional options when using the Standard SKU for Bastion:

Additional reading:

Deploy Bastion with manual settings

Create an RDP connection to a Windows VM using Azure Bastion

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Answer 2

thanks Kobulloc!