Welcome to the 40th Azure Virtual Desktop community newsletter! We now released our newsletter on Thursdays to get a wider reach and give you the ability to engage with us in a better way!
Community Stats
- Slack channel: 1199 members and we´re still growing! You can find us here: https://communityinviter.com/apps/wvdcommunity/join
- Podcast: 2500 downloads – You can view all podcast downloads here – WVD Community Podcast (buzzsprout.com)
- Twitter Followers: 2435 Followers – Follow us here – wvdcommunity (@wvdcommunity) / Twitter
Sponsors
Nerdio
NerdioCon 2023 Location Announced!
Back in late February, we kicked off NerdioCon 2022, our first-ever in-person user conference and industry event. It was a smashing success and one was met with a fantastic reception by the global managed service provider (MSP) and channel community.
We’re announcing that we will be returning to beautiful Cancun, Mexico in February 2023 for another amazing all-inclusive event!
To sign up, follow the link: https://getnerdio.com/academy/nerdiocon-2023-location-announced/
IGEL
Disrupt on Tour – Back on the road again- Week 1 Recap
Last week in Europe and North America, IGEL and the sponsors of Disrupt EUC kicked off the 2022 ‘Disrupt on Tour’ event series. Attended by end-user computing professionals from across the globe, we welcomed over 80 people in Zurich and over 50 at the event in Boston. Being able to bring together many of our EUC friends after so long was quite simply, just AWESOME!
Check the complete article here: https://www.igel.com/blog/disrupt-on-tour-on-the-road-week-1-recap/
Community
New Windows Desktop client released
Check out the latest Windows Desktop client version 1.2.3130. In this version, several vulnerabilities are fixed. Make sure you download this version.
Microsoft Immersion Workshops for AVD
Microsoft announced new AVD workshop dates become available for the next two months. If you want to become familiar with AVD this workshop helps you to learn AVD.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/events/microsoft-immersion-workshops/#azurevirtualdesktop
Azure Virtual Desktop and ShortPath for Public Networks
Marius Sandbu explains in his blogpost how to enable shortPath for public networks in an AVD environment.
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft introduced a new preview feature for AVD called ShortPath for Public Networks. This allows us to get UDP-based connections to our AVD machines instead of the traditional Reverse TCP-based connections. NOTE: This feature is still in preview
You can check his post here: https://msandbu.org/azure-virtual-desktop-and-shortpath-for-public-networks/
Az.Avd PowerShell module updated
Sander Rozemuller has updated the Az.Avd PowerShell module. In this update, a bug is fixed in the image management part. There was an issue when a session host has no specific version selected from the compute gallery. This results in a null value which ends in a ‘nosubscriptionfound’ error.
The result now ends in an overview of the session host, the current version, and the latest version available.
You can download the module from the PowerShell Gallery: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.Avd/2.1.5. If you want to participate, check his GitHub repository https://github.com/srozemuller/AzAvd