June updates to Azure RemoteApp

June updates to Azure RemoteApp
Within the month of June 2015, we released the following new features and capabilities for Azure RemoteApp: Added IP address range checking for Hybrid deployments using an existing VNET Added limited public preview of Forced Tunneling. Forced tunneling ‘forces’ all internet bound traffic back to the customer’s on premise network through the VPN tunnel. Read more here Microsoft Platform images and Azure RDSH gallery image were updated with June software updates for Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrators can add their custom antivirus solution when creating custom images from the Azure gallery RDSH template image Quick links are here for previous monthly updates for March, April, and May for Azure RemoteApp. The following documentation was released and updated Updated our Roadmap for future product releases...
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Hi Yoshihiro,
1. You can reduce the Hash calculation time by storing the vhd on faster hard drive(s) and using faster CPU.  For that size vhd you should be able to get it down to less than 10 minutes for the calculation time.
2. You can reduce the upload time by using faster Internet connection that is as close as possible to Azure Japan West facility, with low latency and no packet loss.  Under excellent conditions (high bandwidth link, low latency, no loss) you should
be able to get several hundred Mbps throughput. 
-TP

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