Welcome to the 49th Azure Virtual Desktop Community newsletter! In this newsletter we bring you the latest news around Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365!
Sponsors
Nerdio
Nerdio have released v4.3 of their Nerdio Manager for Enterprise product into Public Preview! There are many many cool features. The new features include AVD per-user cost reporting, Personal Host Pool auto-shrink, automatic backup and restore of session hosts, support for FSLogix Office Containers, Azure Graph API Use Optimization, Self service enhacements and much more! For the full release notes check it out here – https://nmw.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045731614-Release-Notes
Community
Workplace Ninja Summit 2022 – Esther, Ryan and Travis about Azure Virtual Desktop aka AVD
At the recent Workplace Ninja Summit which was held in the Netherlands they did a special one off podcast episode where they had a discussion about AVD with Esther Barthel, Ryan Mangan and Travis Roberts! If you have a spare 23 minutes then you should definetly give it a watch/listen! You can watch here:
TIP: Display Default Display Settings
Daniel Weppeler from AVD Punks has shared a nice little tip around changing the default display settings for individual full desktops. I didn’t know about this one myself so nice tip Daniel! You can view his tip here – https://twitter.com/i/status/1575108643078385665
Compare Teams Capabilities with AVD Windows 365 Citrix and VMware
Vidya M A has shared a blog post in which they shared the Teams capabiltiies on AVD, Windows 365, Citrix and VMWare. It’s an interesting read and shows just how far the Teams support has come on AVD. Give it a read here – Compare Teams Capabilities With AVD Windows 365 Citrix And VMware HTMD Blog (anoopcnair.com)
Azure Virtual Desktop Store Client
Anoop C Nair has shared a blog post in which he discusses the new Azure Virtual Desktop client store app. This new app is being built for AVD only and it looks like there will be a version for Android, IOS and MacOS. Details are a bit sketchy but hopefully it will come with lots of awesome new features! You can read more info here – New Azure Virtual Desktop Client Microsoft Store App HTMD Blog (anoopcnair.com)
W365 News
Fix Cloud PC Gateway Connection Error
Annop C Nair has shared a blog post about an issue which he faced around connecting to the Cloud PC Gateway. You can see how he troubleshooted the error and the cuase here – FIX Cloud PC Gateway Connection Error | Windows 365 HTMD Blog (anoopcnair.com)
User Signing in issue
Andreas Stenhall has shared a blog post in which he discusses an issue he came across recenty where he received an error message of “Another user is signed in. If you continue, they’ll be disconnected. Do you want to sign in anyway?” Have a read of the resolution here – Cloud PC (Windows 365): “Another user is signed in. If you continue, they’ll be disconnected. Do you want to sign in anyway?” | The Experience Blog
Configure Windows 365 Alert Rules
Morten Pedholt has shared a nice blog post in which he shows us how to Configure Windows 365 Alert Ruels. Alert rules can be used for notifying us of service failures and provisioning failures. You can read his post here – Configure Windows 365 alert rules – Welcome to Pedholtlab
Cloud PCs and the Impossible Travel
Ola Strom has shared an issue she found with Identity Protection which was blocking connection to her Cloud PC due to the “impossible travel” policy that you get, especially when signing in on multiple devices. Definetly something to think about when deploying Cloud PC. Give it a read here – olastrom.com – Cloud PCs and the Impossible travel
Workplace Ninja Summit – Christiaan Brinkhoff about Windows 365 aka Cloud PC
At the recent Workplace Ninja Summit in the Netherlands Frans Oudendorp sat down with Christian Brinkhoff to talk about his favourite subject – Windows 365/Cloud PC! You can watch the recording here:
Organize Intune for Windows 365 and AVD with Filters
Mr T-Bone has created a blog post in which he shared how to create filters in Intune which can help you target different VM types i.e. Windows 365, AVD or both. You can read this post here – Organize Intune for Windows 365 and AVD with Filters – Mr T-Bone´s Blog (tbone.se)
Connect to your Cloud PC using Samsung DEX
Dominiek Verham has shared a nice blog post in which he shares the experince of configuring and running Cloud PC on his Samsung DEX Device, as well as what the user experience was like. Pretty cool to see! You can view his post here – Connect To Your Cloud PC Using Samsung DeX – techlab.blog
Place a Cloud PC under review for investigation
Due to a security incident you may need to reserve evidence on a Cloud PC for forensic analysis. Microsoft have built the capability into Cloud PC to place your Cloud PC under investigation. Morten Pedholt has shared a blog post in which he explains the process to implement this. You can view it here – Place a Cloud PC under review for investigation – Welcome to Pedholtlab
Microsoft
Announcing public preview of SSO and passwordless authentication for Azure
David Belanger from Microsoft has officially announced that they have put Azure AD SSO and passwordless authentication into public preview! This new capability is something which a lot of people have been waiting for so it’s great to see if finally arrive! It will be in preview for a few months and then hopefully it will go into GA in the first half of 2023. You can read more about it here – Announcing public preview of SSO and passwordless authentication for Azure Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Tech Community
Remote Desktop Client updated to v1.2.3573
Microsoft have announced that they have released the Insider build of the Remote Desktop Client. This new version includes a banner warning about the end of support for Windows 7 on January 10th 2023, and also improvements to Multmedia Redirection which is still in public preview! You can view the full release notes here – What’s new in the Windows Desktop client | Microsoft Learn
Group Costs by Host Pool with Cost Management now in Public Preview for AVD
Microsoft have announced that Cost Management has a new feature which will help you group AVD costs with Azure Tags. You can read more about the new feature here – Group costs by host pool with Cost Management now in Public Preview for Azure Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Tech Community