Leostream Launches Major Platform Upgrade to Power Scalable, Automated Remote Access

Version 2025.2 adds features for automation, cloud integration, scalable operations

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leostream Corporation today announced updates to the world-leading Leostream® Remote Desktop Access Platform with features for advanced automation across the entire desktop lifecycle, stronger cloud integration with AWS/Azure, improved end-user experience, enhanced governance and security, and more scalable operations. The company has also added new features to its Privileged Remote Access service, a Vendor Privileged Access Management (VPAM) tool.

Leostream’s new 2025.2 releases include updates aimed at administrators, employees using the platform to access their day-to-day workloads, and external parties granted access to internal resources. RESTful API improvements, deeper Active Directory integration, and new user session troubleshooting and management tools offer even more powerful ways to streamline the delivery of hosted desktop/workstations. New features for AWS and Azure make the Leostream platform even more indispensable in cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. Enhancements for streamlined scaling benefit large enterprises, growing organizations, or even small companies with high volumes and high-velocity IT goals.

Updates to the Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform at a glance:

Simplified, automated employee onboarding and management

Collectively, these enhancements enable zero-touch lifecycle management for user identities and machines, allow for improved forecasting, establish efficient shortcuts for audits, investigations, or troubleshooting.

• With expanded RESTful API coverage, administrators can fully script user onboarding, VM maintenance, cloud configuration, and provisioning updates. The platform now supports users resetting AD passwords within the Leostream Web client—so IT teams spend less time on password resets and users enjoy a smoother experience.

• New APIs allow for closer alignment with HR/HRIS and IT, with simplified ways to add, change, and delete end user records within the Leostream Platform. With these additions, user records can be updated automatically via scripts, reducing delays, chances for error, and manual steps—and keeps pace with fluctuations in the size of the workforce.

• Administrators can now create scripts for advanced desktop usage analysis, such as determining which users are mapped to which VM at peak hours, analyze activity/usage patterns across all virtual desktops, or see what resources are consumed. Scripts can place machines in scheduled maintenance mode, drain desktops out of active pools for patching/updating, and make them available again.

• Improved options for role-level dashboard visibility allow for more granular administrator privileges.

Enhancements for AWS and Azure

New and updated features for users of the world’s leading cloud providers enable Platform 2025.2 users to do even more with their cloud resources, improve CI/CD and DevOps pipelines, and expand the platform’s value in cost-sensitive cloud deployments.

• The Leostream platform now makes it simple to bring Windows 11 desktops into AWS using Bring Your Own License with support for provisioning persistent instances for WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances. BYOL reduces IT costs, allows more flexibility in OS licensing, and provides a unified way to manage both persistent and non-persistent WorkSpaces Core instances.

• New advanced inventory of available AWS instance sizes gives up-to-date access when new cloud hardware is available in AWS, such as the newest GPU or memory-optimized instances, as soon as AWS releases them. The Leostream platform can now detect these automatically without needing manual configuration.

• For improved accuracy in automation pipelines, less risk of misconfigurations, and faster updates across pools, Platform 2025.2 now includes the AWS image ID when importing images, in addition to the image name. Administrators who update provisioning parameters in pools, and DevOps teams that automate pool provisioning and updates, can now use scripts to reference exact AMI IDs instead of potentially ambiguous names.

• Azure customers can now use the Centers API to add and edit Azure centers, improving flexibility and automation for CI/CD or DevOps installations integrating the Leostream Connection Broker with their workflows. Organizations using the Leostream platform with Azure centers will see complete automation of cloud lifecycle events, faster deployments with less manual configuration, and improved Marketplace workflows.

New in the Leostream Privileged Remote Access service

Updates to Leostream’s secure, enterprise-ready privileged access service—available with or without the primary Leostream platform—make it easier to adopt and simpler to scale across large ecosystems of third-party access partners. These features address large enterprises with long vendor lists, complex identity systems, and multi-team support operations.

• For faster and more accurate vendor onboarding, administrators can send invitations in bulk instead of one at a time—improving functionality especially for sectors that rely heavily on external specialists, such as healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services.

• New automated identity flow integrates with Microsoft Entra ID SSO to more closely align privileged third-party access with established corporate identity policies. This delivers a unified login experience, stronger auditability, and reduced risk of unmanaged accounts, which are common attack vectors in incidents stemming from third-party access.

• A message board improves coordination with external teams and ensures that vendors stay informed about downtime, upgrades, and security requirements inside the Leostream service portal itself.

“Leostream’s 2025.2 release makes it the most automation-friendly, cloud-flexible, and operations-focused remote desktop platform on the market. Administrators will find multiple new tools for simpler, faster, more flexible operations, and we believe they’ll get a lot fewer help calls from their end users,” said Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO. “Meanwhile, users of the Leostream Privileged Remote Access service will also save time through bulk actions, simplified login management, and centralized communication. Together these two releases strengthen Leostream’s competitive position as the leading remote access platform for modern workplaces.”

The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform for hosted desktops and workstations offers a comprehensive solution for remote access to maintain productivity, control costs, and ensure security with strict authentication and authorization built on zero-trust concepts. Its connection management system eliminates clunky corporate VPNs with an ultra-efficient gateway that gives users access to only the specific resources they have permission to use, automatically, regardless of their location or device. The Leostream Platform shines even in environments that rely on complex, specialty applications like energy and science; large files such as media and entertainment; real-time performance like financial services; and bulletproof network security like government and defense.

About Leostream

Leostream digital workspace management solutions embody over 20 years of Leostream research and development in supporting customers with hosted desktop environments, including VDI, hybrid cloud, and high-performance display protocols. The Leostream high performance Remote Desktop Access Platform provides the world’s most robust digital workspace connection management and remote access feature set, allowing today’s enterprises to choose the best-of-breed components to satisfy their complex security, cost, and flexibility needs while working with them as they evolve into tomorrow. The Leostream Privileged Remote Access service simplifies, secures, and monitors temporary access to corporate resources for vendors, service providers, and external contractors. Follow Leostream on LinkedIn and X.

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