Welcome to this news blog post from the official Microsoft VirtualDesktops global community. In this newsletter, we will take you along with all the community and partner news over the past 2 weeks
Nerdio
What You Need to Know About Migrations with Nerdio and ProArch | The Rimo3 Podcast
Nerdio’s CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy was recently involved in a great podcast episode with Rimo3 and ProArch. During the podcast they discussed what you need to be thinking about when migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. You can watch the episode here:
Community
Multimedia Redirection for AVD and Windows 365
Dominiek Verham has shared a post in which he discusses the Multimeida Redirection feature of Azure Virtual Desktop which is currently in public preview. In his post he discusses how to configure the feature and some initial testing feedback. This is a great feature of Azure Virtual Desktop and can massively reduce the load on your hosts and improve the user expeirence. You can read his post here – https://techlab.blog/multimedia-redirection-for-avd-and-w365/
Optimizing Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
The team over at LoginVSI have announced that they are running a webinar on Optimizing Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop on the 17th November. During the webinar Blair Parkhill will share some tips and trips on how to run Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop like a boss! You can sign up for the webinar here – https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19518/564260
FastTrack for Azure: Azure Virtual Desktop: Ask Me Anything!
Michel Roth has announced that Microsoft are hosting an ask me anything event on Azure Virtual Desktop on the 8th November. This is a good opportunity to ask them any questions on Azure Virtual Desktop! You can sign up and register here – https://fasttrack.azure.com/live/category/Virtual%20Desktop
Windows 365 News
2 Best Methods to Access Windows 365 Cloud PC Audit Logs
Prajwal Desai has shared a blog post in which he discusses how to access the Windows 365 audit logs of your Cloud PCs. These audit logs can be useful for tracking configuration changes when troubleshooting issues. You can view his post here – https://www.prajwaldesai.com/access-windows-365-cloud-pc-audit-logs/
Security Guidelines for Cloud PCs
Dominiek Verham has shared a blog post in which he discusses the Windows 365 Security Baseline settings and configs. In his post he looks at a few of the recommended settings and discusses their use case. You can read his post here – https://techlab.blog/security-guidelines-for-cloud-pcs/
Compare Windows 365 Business Vs Enterprise Cloud PC
Jitesh Kumar has written a blog post in which he discusses the differences between Business and Enterprise versions of Cloud PC. In the post he discusses the main feature differences between the two versions and how to provison them. Yoi can read his post here – https://www.anoopcnair.com/compare-windows-365-business-vs-enterprise-cloud-pc/
Cleanup Cloud PC devices in Azure AD
Morten Pedholt has written a blog post in which he explains the issue are Azure AD accounts not being removed from Azure AD. He has created a PowerShell script which removes and cleans up these Azure AD accounts. You can view his blog post on the subject here – https://pedholtlab.com/cleanup-cloud-pc-devices-in-azure-ad/
The Windows 365 app
Ola Strom has shared a blog post in which gave a quick overview of the Windows 365 app and showed some of the new features and functionality differences to existing Remote Desktop App. You can read his post here – https://www.olastrom.com/2022/the-windows-365-app
Windows 365 Cloud PC – Policy Conflict – Security Baseline VS RDP Device Restrictions
Aresh Sarkari has shared a blog post in which he discusses a problem which he was having with a policy conflict with the Windows 365 Security baseline settings. You can view his blogpost on the topic here – https://askaresh.com/2022/11/01/windows-365-cloud-pc-policy-conflict-security-baseline-vs-rdp-device-restrictions/
Point-in-time restore for Windows 365 Enterprise
Microsoft have updated their documentation regarding the point in time restore options for Cloud PC. You can choose to save short-term restore points every 4, 6, 12, 16, or 24 hours. You can view the updated documentation here – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/restore-overview#restore-point-options?WT.mc_id=ES-MVP-5003876
Microsoft
Microsoft have updated the Remote Desktop Client to version 1.2.3667. This update includes a number of bug fixes and added UDP support for ARM64 Clients. You can see a full list of features here – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/windowsdesktop-whatsnew#updates-for-version-123667-insider
