I faced a confusing situation recently, where I had to enable RDP to two VMs in the same cloud service using endpoints included in a load balanced set. A load balanced set was created for the RDP port 3389 and both VMs were included in the set. However, if we select the invidual VMs from the management portal-> click connect, you will get the following error message "An external endpoint to the Remote Desktop port(3389) must first be added to the role" That was pretty confusing, since the port is already defined in the load balanced set !! . After playing around for a bit, I found out that I was doing it all wrong !!.. The load balancer set works from a cloud service perspective. So the RDP load balanced set along with the other load balanced ports are defined for the cloud service. That means I can actually RDP by providing the cloud service name, and it will land me on one of the VMs in the cloud service. From the VM, you can rdp to any other VM in the...