Windows Cloud Application Optimizations

Browsers

• Use a browser you can centrally manage through GPO

  • Chrome for Enterprise, Edge Chromium or Firefox for Enterprise.

• Disable Hardware graphics acceleration

• Use dark theme

• Avoid using Flash based websites.

• Limit the use of extensions in the browser to only those required.

• Disable saving passwords in the browser.

MS Office (General)

• Disable hardware graphics acceleration

• Disable Office animations

• Disable Office backgrounds

• Disable the Office start screen

• Suppress the recommended settings dialog

• Disable Menu animations

• Disable First Run Movie

• Disable Office First Run Movie on application boot

• Only install the Office applications the users require.

Outlook

• If using Office 365, use Outlook Web instead of the Outlook client.

• If using the Outlook client with cached mode enabled do the following:

  • Keep the cache to a minimal amount keeping only the most recent email in the OST. Keep no more than 3 months.

• When using multiple RDS Session Hosts and roaming user profiles, a third party tool such as FSLogix is recommended to properly roam all the outlook settings and data.

OneDrive

• Do not use the OneDrive client on a RD session host. Instead rely on the MS Office native integrations with OneDrive and SharePoint file locations.

Teams

• Use Teams only for chat and collaboration in a RDS deployment

• Use the Teams web client instead of the full client in a RDS deployment

• If you need/want to use Teams for Audio/Video/Meetings, etc, you should consider a Horizon DaaS deployment instead of RDS.