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Hi All,

we have a cloud development VM on our azure subscriptions , but we need to have more than two users to connect as we dont have local VMs, i already added the role on the VM and activated the RDS windows 2016 licenses but am still unable to connect with more than two users, is there any further setup needed to do so ?

Thank you,

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    241,499 Most Valuable Professional on at

    What do you want to do with 3+ users on a single DEV box at the same time? If you believe that you can use a single DEV box for multiple developers, you're wrong - it wouldn't work. You need to deploy a separate VM for every developer.

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    I'm also curious why you would need to use many simultaneous users.

    Normal users/testers can simply access the system via the web browser / URL so they don't need to login via RDP.

    And in development work only one developer can work on one system at the same time. Each developer needs their own VM.

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    Thank you Martin.

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    98 on at

    Thank you Nikolaos,

    so every developer should have his own VM and connected to Devops project? and code then will be checked in from each machine, then from Build machine the code will be downloaded and package created ? please correct if am wrong about the development cycle.

    Thank you,

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    nmaenpaa Profile Picture
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    That's correct. But a small clarification is in place: nobody should login to the build VM or download any code. Instead the build should be triggered by an ADO build pipeline. You can either use a build VM or a build service in ADO.

    Anyway that's another topic so let's not discuss it further here.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
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    Yes, each developer has his/her own development machine, where they develop code in isolation from others. Developers commit their changes to a source control repository and get changes done by others from the same place.

    When you run a build, it also downloads code from the repository, builds it and create a deployable package.

    Note that you pay for VMs (in your Azure subscription) only if they're running, therefore you can reduce cost by turning them off when they're not needed.

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