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Entra Dynamic Device Groups for Azure Virtual Desktop - Host Pools, Resource Groups and Subscriptions

I was searching for an option to group all AVD hosts (Entra and hybrid joined) of a pool in a dynamic device group. Unfortunately, I didn’t find a perfect solution...

OneDrive Clean-Up for Azure Virtual Desktop

Running OneDrive with Azure Virtual Desktop is a common scenario and enables users to work in a modern way with Teams and SharePoint. If FSLogix is used, there is a...

AVD Need Assistance - NAT shape is Undetermined when probing turn:20.202.248.2:3478?Udp TURN relay health check failed ...

Current issues: AVD agent reports an issue and brings the hosts into “Need Assistance”

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