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Deployment of an Azure Virtual Desktop image failed after updating to Windows 24H2 with a blue screen 0xc000000f

Several users reported a failure during the rollout of images in Azure Virtual Desktop in the last months. The error pattern was always the same: The virtual machine was built,...

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...

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"

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...

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

Due to a change of the AVD agent, the needed data are no longer in the eventlog. Therfore, the tool is no longer working.