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CountrySwitch - First Logon Experience and language selector and an app starter for remote apps on network paths for AVD

First Logon Experience and language selector and an app starter for remote apps on network paths

Improve AVD User Experience: Warm-Up to decreas User login time

If you are running Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix, the first login to a host takes longer than the following logins. I also wrote about this effect (I call is...

Windows Update API issue - Exception from HRESULT: 0x8002802B (TYPE_E_ELEMENTNOTFOUND)

Windows gives you access to work with Windows Update on an API level. This is often used to find, download, and install new updates programmatically. That makes special sense in...

Common issues in Azure Virtual Desktop (VMs-Session Hosts relations)

VM- Session Host relation In Azure Virtual Desktop, session hosts in host pools are providing remote applications or desktops to users. A session host is an object in a host...

Debugging Azure Virtual Desktop errors/issues/network latency and bandwidth with an interactive Workbook

Correctly configured, Azure Virtual Desktop sends diagnostic data to a log analytics workspace (Azure Monitor). There are several logs containing data about the events in the backend:

How to image a Confidential Golden Master VM and deploy confidential Session Hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure confidential VMs offer strong security and confidentiality for customers by isolating data. That can also make sene for Azure Virtual Desktop. One of my favorite deployment methods is the...

How to image a Golden Master VM based on a plan to a compute gallery definition

The Azure Marketplace offers many preconfigured VMs, which are preconfigured images from a third-party vendor used to deploy a VM. One popular offering is “CIS Hardened Image Level 1 on...

Imaging, Rollout and Manage Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI with Hydra

Manage Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI with Hydra

Microsoft Azure and hibernated Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop Hibernation

Microsoft introduced a new feature for Virtual Machines: Hibernation (link to MS post). That is awesome and allows totally new scenarios, not even for Azure Virtual Desktop. But used with...

Install the New Teams Client on Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) - AVD

Microsoft made the New Teams client available for VDIs (preview)

How to get the Client IP Address in Azure Virtual Desktop

While migrating Virtual Desktop Environments to AVD, I got another challenge from the past: Sometimes, companies use the client IP address to identify the user’s location to map a specific...