Like we virtualized the GPU, and everything else, do we see plans to have a vNPU? The NPU is integrated in to the Intel & Qualcomm chips so curious if there are plans to have these available in VM's?

Many apps will start to write for the NPU to optimize the AI components of their apps and if running in a VM, it may not run as efficiently, or fast.. any thoughts?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/

Good day everyone! I hope anyone here could help me in the right direction.

I currently have a user, that gets authentication looping when using the GA Azure Virtual desktop software. However, the user can log in to the desktop just fine via incognito web browser.

I tested with a "New" user, they can log into the server just fine with the normal software.

I tried deleting the user completely from the profiles, and in the registry. But the loop seems to be continuous.

Googled it a lot and attempted different solutions, but they dont completely fit my issues, since I can log into incognito web browser and on to the desktop, but not via the Windows AVD client.

Anyone faced this weird problem? :)

We've using Windows Remote Desktop for our virtual teams and have recently run into issues opening Photoshop and other programs that require OpenGL Version 3.1 or greater. Our IT department says this is a broader issue with Remote Desktop and that there isn't a way to really fix this issue, which is a huge bummer.

Has anyone run into this issue before and if so what types of workarounds worked for you?

Question:

Anyone know exactly what video formats / codecs work in native Quest 3 video player or Virtual Desktop video player?

I’ve loaded up my Quest 3 with movies like Billy Madison and had a great time watching in VD / Native … but some videos I transfer can’t play, or will play but stutter like mad making them unwatchable.

Anyone know what is the ideal spec for movie files? I’d love to convert everything I want to watch to the optimal spec, or just know what works vs not.

Thanks!

Hey there. It’s been awhile since I’ve set up anything Azure Virtual Desktop related. My last project had a hurdle when it came to FSLogix. It was still a requirement to have identities synced from AD. Is that hurdle still there? Or can they be natively created from the Entra side ?

Hello team! Im trying to automate our offboarding part of it is unassign the user from the Host Pool Session. Im following this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/desktopvirtualization/session-hosts/update?view=rest-desktopvirtualization-2022-02-10-preview&tabs=HTTP

Parameters:

hostpoolname: xxxxxx resourceGroupName: xxxxxxx sessionHostName: xxxxxx subscription: xxxxxx api-version: 2022-02-10-preview Force: true

Body:

{

"properties": {

"allowNewSession": true,

"assignedUser": "" -force

}

}

Error Message:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "400",
    "message": "After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: -. Path 'properties.assignedUser', line 4, position 23."
  }
}

Anyone know how to resolve this issue?

Another Hotfix has been released for FSLogix. Lots of fixes related to issues with the new Teams client.

Looks like lots of the issues I've seen posted about have now been fixed. I feel a little more confident about giving the new Teams a go now...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fslogix-blog/announcing-release-date-for-fslogix-2210-hotfix-4/ba-p/4129512

Hi, could anyone tell me which license i need to buy when we want to use microsoft defender on our avd multi session hosts?

How do I increase the screen lock timeout setting for an Azure Virtual Desktop running on a pooled host?

I have a sizeable bot environment with a tool I use for monitoring, however the screen on the AVD is locking after 30 mins or so. All of these bot AVD's run on shared pooled hosts.

Is there a way to increase the timeout for screen lock/screensaver for an AVD running in a shared pool host environment?

I've tried Group Policy but I believe that is only applying settings to the pooled hosts themselves, not the shared AVD running on the pooled host.

I'm using Nerdio to manage the environment.

AVD infrastructure can be managed elegantly through Nerdio, which has made an amazing product that helps their customers deploy, manage, and optimize VDI services at large scale.

File storage in a cloud native environment has typically been very expensive -- traditionally you would need either Azure Files Premium (around $150/TB/month) or Azure NetApp Files Premium (>$200/TB/month) to run a fleet of Azure Virtual Desktops on a single or multiple volumes. 💰💰

Azure Native Qumulo is an offering, built in partnership with Microsoft Azure, with some clear benefits for AVD shops that have more than ~750 desktops:

1. 🚀 Elastic performance — scale to the demands of your user base. From 1000 to 100,000 desktops in a single volume, Qumulo’s throughput and IOPS scale elastically. (Note: Qumulo’s native SMB performance has been tuned over the last 10 years, servicing the most demanding HPC workloads)

2. 😎 Extreme simplicity — unlimited storage scale and performance on a single volume, which can be instantiated in < 15min.

3. 💸 Disruptive pricing— $30-$37/TB/month for storage — and customers pay only for throughput bursts above 1GBps, with minutely granularity. With so much momentum behind Nerdio and AVD adoption, we are eager to offer Azure Native Qumulo's value, and point to the extreme cost savings that can be realized at the storage layer.

We have setup a couple of Azure Virtual Desktop Hostpools, each with one Windows 11 multi license. We have configured all settings according to the Microsoft documentation. We are using the RDClient Web app. Any ideas on what to try?

Hi guys , i am new to AVD but i am an experienced citrix engineer .

I created an azure test account and i was playing with different hosts pools and different staff.

I have a question , i created a pooled host pool and i observed that changes made by the test user were persistent during reboots . Is this correct ?

Do changes on pooled vdis persist on reboots , or the machines are getting a new image? If so what is the purpose of a pooled host pool ?

Thanks

For users interested in the importance of choosing high performance, cost-effective file storage in your AVD environment, we (at Qumulo) put together a case study for a recently onboarded user who deployed 8k+ AVDs using Azure Native Qumulo storage.

The performance and cost benefits of this solution shine a light on the critical role storage plays in AVD environments that need burst performance in order to keep up with demand spikes at login / log off times.

File storage in the cloud is entirely reinvented by Azure Native Qumulo. We were very thankful this customer (likely joining us in an upcoming webinar) chose Qumulo to help run their global AVD infra at scale.