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Updating a Golden Master VM from Windows 10 multi-user to Windows 11 multi-user
The Golden-Master approach is a common way to deploy applications and desktops as session hosts in Azure Virtual Desktop. The approach is very simple, and the rollout of new session...
Updating or cloning a Azure VM with standard security to trusted launch with secure boot and vTPM
Update 2025.02: Microsoft has provided an additional way to upgrade existing VMs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/trusted-launch-existing-vm-gen-1
Onboard AVD pooled session hosts to Defender automatically with a script
Onboarding session hosts to Defender is very important for security reasons. Microsoft has documented the way to onboard these devices in different scenarios here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/configure-endpoints-vdi
Session hosts are not available in Azure Virtual Desktop, but VMs are running.
During June/July, I got several emails that session hosts were not available in AVD, but the VMs were in a running state. Rebooting the host sometimes helps, and the host...
Azure Virtual Desktop - Login error Protocol Error Code 0x112f - Windows 11
Login error: Protocol Error Code 0x112f
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...
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...
