restarting remote desktop via ssh or azure portal

Bs series burstable Azure VMs seem to have an endemic problem of the remote desktop service dying or refusing connections after the VM sees some heavy loads. Initially I had no idea why RDesktop was not connecting ... anyway, a couple of workarounds - 

1. install ssh server and leave the ssh service running
   ssh into the machine when RDP has issues,
   ssh  adminuser@server.tld -p port
   powershell
   get-service termservice
   get-service termservice -dependentservices
   
   stop-service UmRdpService
   restart-service termservice
   start-service UmRdpService
   
   
2. install Windows Admin Center on the VM and connect via the Azure portal, restarting the same services as above. We need to use the "Connect with Public IP address" method on the Azure portal.