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WVDAdmin - A native administration Gui for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop administration with WVDAdmin
Hydra is publicly available and listed on the Azure Marketplace
I’m pleased that my project Hydra is now listed in the Azure Marketplace as a deployable solution into the customers’ subscription - which is essential...
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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
WVDAdmin - A native administration Gui for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop administration with WVDAdmin
Azure Virtual Desktop - Login error Protocol Error Code 0x112f - Windows 11
Login error: Protocol Error Code 0x112f
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:
Deploying and updating standard applications with Microsoft Package Manager / Winget automatically
Around 2.5 years ago, I introduced a feature in WVDAdmin to install applications from a list of thousands of VM and hosts. That was based on the Microsoft Package Manager...
Using FSLogix file shares with Azure AD cloud identities in Azure Virtual Desktop - cloud-only, AVD
With AAD-Kerberos, you can use AAD-only joined session hosts with FSLogix. This is a great approach to working more cloud-native. With AAD-Kerberos, the session hosts don’t need to have network...
Automatically remove a computer object from AD while removing a session host in AVD
With my tools WVDAdmin and Hydra for Azure Virtual Desktop, you can easily manage Azure Virtual Desktop. It also includes the deletion of session hosts and VMs with a single...
Azure AD only joined hosts in Azure Virtual Desktop: Join and re-join hosts
Azure AD-only joined are getting more common in Azure Virtual Desktop. There are some challenges running AVD hosts as AAD-only. One challenge is that you can roll out a new...
Working interactively with user sessions in Azure Virtual Desktop
Handling user sessions in AVD could be more intuitive in the Azure Portal. Luckily, some tools (like WVDAdmin, Hydra, and others) are available to make it easier. I made a...
Sysprep and deploy Windows 11 22H2 in Azure with a custom image and a workaround
A common way to build virtual machines based on an image in Azure (e.g., as Session hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop) can be done by the “Golden Image” approach.
The challenge of having the correct language in the Edge browser with Azure Virtual Desktop in West Europe
If you run Azure Virtual Desktop in a data center in another country, you maybe know that the browsers are showing some websites in the data center location language. For...
