Parallels RAS 18 Enhances IT Admin Capabilities and User Experience

Available in December, Parallels Remote Application Server 18 will enable organisations to cost-effectively deploy Windows Virtual Desktop, other virtual desktops, and applications as a seamless unified solution to knowledge workers wherever they are located.


This new version integrates industry-preferred FSLogix Profile Containers for more robust and proficient user profile management and advanced session metrics, including Parallels’ own User Experience (UX) Evaluator, to provide IT admins with superior user session management capabilities. Additional new features, including built-in automated image optimisation and a new web-based management portal, will be added to Parallels RAS 18 when it launches in December.


Unified Windows Virtual Desktop Integration

Parallels RAS 18 provides knowledge workers a single secure solution to easily access their Windows Virtual Desktop, other virtual desktops, and all their applications, regardless of where they are hosted and running. Additionally, this new version Console provides IT admins a unified workload management point of view that greatly extends and simplifies the capabilities of Windows Virtual Desktop by integrating the management of all resources and workloads into one central point. Organisations can integrate Parallels RAS deployments with Windows Virtual Desktop to easily deliver a single solution to end-users, wherever they are located.

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