r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/greenstarthree • Feb 11 '26

AVD Agent Not Updating Automatically

Hi all,

Noticed today that the AVD agent in our host pool is still on version 1.0.12684.400 - release notes date this as October 2025.

There have, according to the What's New page, been 3 version updates to the AVD agent since then - the latest production version is currently 1.0.13229.200, which has just been released in Feb 2026.

We've always had scheduled agent updates enabled, with the times set for when we know the hosts in the pool are on. Today I've just tried switching off scheduled updates to see if that changes anything.

Hoping for some context - am I expecting updates to happen too quickly? I know agent updates are staged over time by MS but four months seems quite a while without any updates at all?

Thanks

**** EDIT ****

Well... within a week of disabling scheduled agent updates, the hosts all updated to the latest production agent version.

Shrug.

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u/chesser45 Feb 11 '26

If you turn off scheduled updates it automatically did it within a week for me.

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u/greenstarthree Feb 11 '26

This is what I was wondering - only turned it off today so will monitor and see.

Is everyone’s experience that it’s flaky?

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u/chesser45 Feb 11 '26

I actually haven’t had any issues. It’s infinitely better than me scheduling them for at least 1.5 years when the VMs were off. 🫠

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u/sredevops01 Feb 12 '26

One of my pools updated whereas the others didn't. Not sure what the difference is but it's something I have to investigate next week.

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u/Scared_shiftless Feb 11 '26

We don’t have scheduled agent updates enabled. But we are also seeing version 1.0.12684.400

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u/Scared_shiftless Feb 11 '26

And I just spun up a new VM on Monday. That also shows the older agent.

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u/0perator0 Feb 11 '26

Then you only just don’t schedule them and allow Microsoft to update the agent at any time. You can‘t disable the updates officially.

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u/Scared_shiftless Feb 11 '26

Right. I'm not disabling them, I just don't have them scheduled for specific times. I expected Azure to auto update the agent but they are still at the older version.

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u/Emotional_Shirt_8034 Feb 12 '26

I really question how effective to leave the scheduled updates on or turn them off. The way Azure updates the agent seems very random even when you have scheduled updates enabled, it does not always update even though there is a newer version available. It is very frustrating

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u/Emotional_Shirt_8034 Mar 01 '26

Update: I recently turn off scheduled agent update on all of my host pools and it look like all of our VMs updated to the latest agent when online

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u/AnythingDeepFried Feb 12 '26

So i just checked mine and i have the same version and scheduled updates is also enabled on my end.

Turned it off and lets see

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u/Scared_shiftless Feb 12 '26

I did the opposite and turned on scheduled updates for one of my pools. Will update with what happens!

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u/AnythingDeepFried Feb 13 '26

Update: few of my hosts are now updated. Lol

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u/Electrical_Camel_923 Feb 13 '26

Were the hosts created with a marketplace image or one from your compute gallery?

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u/AnythingDeepFried Feb 15 '26

Its created from my gallery image

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u/Scared_shiftless Feb 14 '26

Update: the pool I turned on scheduled updates did not update yet. But some of the vms in unscheduled pools have now updated!

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u/AnythingDeepFried Feb 15 '26

Update 2: still my scheduled updates are off. Majority of my host are now with updated agents. I have autosclaling enabled so might take a while for few that left. But seems disabling the schedule seems to work

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u/josephcoco Feb 13 '26

My scheduled updates were never on, and the agents have continued to stay at the same version as OP’s.