Accessing a USB through an Azure Virtual Machine

Question

_{Monday, June 5, 2017 5:54 AM}

I have a resource intensive software package which I would like to run on a windows virtual machine. The license for this software is on a USB dongle though, and therefore I need to connect to the USB port on the physical machine that I am using through the virtual machine. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

All replies (2)

_{Monday, June 5, 2017 8:02 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

When connecting via RDP, go to 'Local Resources'.

Then select 'More...'

Check 'Drives' box and you're good to go.

Not sure if this will enable dongle but you can access local USB on your VM.

Mustafa Toroman, Azure MVP

_{Monday, June 5, 2017 9:02 AM}

Thanks Mustafa, much appreciated.