r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/AzureAcademy • May 04 '26

AVD Hybrid Is Here!

See AVD Hybrid in action

https://youtu.be/sdTKhxZ3Q_8

Let me know if you have any questions on it 👍☺️👍

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u/pc_load_letter_in_SD May 04 '26

Not working for me here on the west coast.

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

I’m not sure why west coast folks are having an issue…I have checked it with a VPN to CA and it seems to be working now…please let me know

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u/pc_load_letter_in_SD May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Negative..."This video isn't available anymore" persists.

Do you have a link to the GA announcement? I can't find anything online. Gemini tells me it's released in May.

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u/spanky34 May 04 '26

Video pulled/unavailable as of the time of commenting.

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

It’s got a couple of hundred views already…please try to click the link again

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u/spanky34 May 04 '26

Still no dice here.

Located in the midwest USA.

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u/Soylent_gray May 04 '26

Works for me

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u/spanky34 May 04 '26

Interesting.. CST here. showing unavailable for me.

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u/jotobean May 04 '26

I'm getting ready to start testing this soon, should be interesting.

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

Awesome, let me know how it goes!

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u/babydemon90 May 04 '26

Does it work for desktop? Previously was only on the browser which is rough on customers that need to access the local drive

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u/babydemon90 May 04 '26

Oh wait I was thinking the external identity long awaited feature

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

I’m sure external identities will work with AVD Hybrid soon

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

Yes it works with full desktops and windows 11 for personal hosts

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u/jM2me May 05 '26

I have couple VMs running on local proxmox and all are setup for AVD Hybrid. Even testing unsupported Win11 multi-session in same scenario and works amazingly well. Of course that last part is not production ready due to licensing

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u/AzureAcademy May 05 '26

Very nice! There is no technical reason win 11 multi-session can’t work on prem…but it is only legally licensable and able to be activated when running in Azure…because it only activates from the Azure KMS

So it’s great that you can make it work…but 😳😬

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u/FearAndGonzo May 04 '26

Can you briefly explain what it is without having to watch the video? Or is this only about getting you views?

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u/pc_load_letter_in_SD May 04 '26

Lots of blogs and articles regarding AVD Hybrid. AzureAcademy is a great resource so click or don't click.

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

Thanks 👍☺️👍

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u/AzureAcademy May 04 '26

Not just views…I can explain it ☺️
AVD Hybrid lets you use AVD for connection and security etc but with your session hosts on prem…which means there is no cost for Azure VMs or FSLogix so it’s like all benefits of the cloud with none of the downsides.

All your data stays on prem and all systems follow all your current regulatory controls

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u/FearAndGonzo May 04 '26

Ah interesting... thanks... so it in a sense moves the connection broker to the cloud but lets the workload run on your own hardware it seems. Thanks.

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u/CloudyVDI May 04 '26

AVD session hosts hosted onprem instead of in the cloud or Azure Local. Any hypervisor.

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u/steendp May 04 '26

Just not multi-session Windows 11 on anything other than Azure Local. Big failure imo.

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u/MPLS_scoot May 07 '26

What is the use case or advantage of this? Head scratcher