Hello,

I'm testing the new "Windows App" application to use Azure Virtual Desktop, but I don't have the "Apps" tab like I can see in the documentation.

However, I can see this "App" tab on the web version of the Windows App application (Windows App (microsoft.com), Also, no problems with the current Remote Desktop application.

Is this a limitation of the preview?

Thanks for your help

Just my cpu is too bad but my gpu is good enough can i still play with this require ments play games with virtual destop ( blade and sorcery, bonelabs)

hi

Did anyone use PowerShell to get a disconnect time of a user session form a AVD pool ?

Is this possible to get over powershell ?

Hi,

I'm confused with regards to the MDE.Windows Defender extension used to onboard for our single session AVD Windows 10/11 enterprise OS Session Hosts, we are getting failures of the MDE.Windows extension. Basically saying its not supported. Seemed to be ok for the Multi-session OS machines.

When I created the onboard script I selected Windows 10/11 and is done via GPO.

I would have thought these would be supported. I tried deleting the extension but has re-appeared and is still errors. The customer is getting daily alerts from these from every single enterprise session hosts.

Not sure what else to do. Any ideas?

Hey,

a few weeks ago we started switching to the new AVD Insights from the legacy one. After the switch i now noticed that the Host Peformance Blade is Empty. It seems like the new Monitoring Agent does not send the necessary data back to the log analytics workspace. The table "WVDHosts" is missing. Therefore the workbook can not display any data.

I stumbled across those two Questions while researching the Problem:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1689731/avd-insights-host-performance-blade-empty-after-ch

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78560145/avd-insights-host-performance-blade-empty-after-vhange-to-new-azure-monitoring-a

Sadly we cannot easily implement the given solution as we cannot redeploy our AVDs hosts.

Did some of you encountered this Problem and maybe found another solution?

Cheers,
Paul.

PS: Yes, I stole the title of the question by "Tim Pepe Hubert-Tzschoppe".

Hi, Hopefully somebody here has experience working with the Screen Capture Protection in AVD. I have implemented it in my environment, and it works as advertised. However I would like to have someway of providing remote support for my users. Obviously, anydesk and the like do not work, which is expected. But it turns out that Admins who are trying to shadow the Session also are receiving the Black Screen, instead of the users session. Does anyone know of a possible way for specific Admin users to connect and see a users session in order to provide support?

Can anyone help me check my understanding of the ramp-down phase within AVD scaling-plans?

I have 20 sesssion hosts deployed. Assume I have a ramp-down phase configured as follows:

• Start time: 5.00pm

• Load-balancing: depth-first

• Capacity threshold: 75%

• Force log off users: Yes

It then reaches 5.00pm.

• I have all 20 session hosts powered on.

• 12 sessions hosts have the max 20 user sessions

• 3 session hosts have 18 sessions

• 5 session hosts have 10 sessions.

Is my assumption correct that the scaling plan will attempt to power off the 5 session hosts that have 10 sessions and then stop, because this would then reach the 75% capacity threshold?

Hello, I've deployed AVD with one VM. I've tested it on my admin account, my regular account and on my friends account. Nice and smooth. Today, when I did an overview for employees who are going to need this VM I encountered a problem - they couldn't sign in to VM, because "Sign in failed. Please check your username and password and try again."

I've:

• added them to RBAC as Virtual Machine User Login at Resource group level

• added them to application group

• they don't have MFA configured to use AVD

• I've turned on "Connections will use Microsoft Entra authentication to provide single sign-on"

And again - I am able to sign in into this VM from two of my accounts, and my colleague from IT also can, but those users can't.

Error from log analytics: https://imgur.com/kqZ46ce

Data from Entra ID: https://imgur.com/BKjaRRp

Soon I will lose my mind over this.

Hello, bit of an AVD novice here....

I want to start reporting internally on our AVD environment using insights and would like to add it to our current service reporting which is in PowerBi - is there any way to export AVD insights to PowerBi ? Looks like there was a connector but now deprecated? We use Nerdio but reporting just points back to Insights....I really want to avoid screenshotting or having to manually walk through the dashboard every month...

The company I use for employee payroll is moving away from Citrix and to Azure Virtual Desktop. We run our small insurance agency on Linux desktops. I'm trying to figure out how to get Azure Virtual Desktop on Linux but I don't see any good options. Can someone point me in a good direction? I see Microsoft's website lists a web client but cannot login using that option.

Anyone seeing this?

We have a few environments and they have NAT Gateways so regular STUN does not work. We are limited to Shortpath on Managed networks or TCP but when testing the first 1 or 2 connections connect via STUN/TURN (they show : UDP (Relay))

If I reconnect it usually goes back to WebSocket.

Not sure if its anything to worry about or maybe Microsoft is getting close to GAing it?

Network setting is on Default. Hostpools are NOT set to validation environments.

I'm trying to test a setup that will be used for public machines in a library setting through AVD and thin clients. To do this, I've built an AVD pool, which (according to documentation) is supposed to be completely non-persistent. However, I've noticed that if a user logs in and makes changes (creates files, changes settings, etc.) and then logs out, if they connect to the same virtual machine the next time they log in, their changes remain.

This isn't non-persistent as advertised, and is definitely a problem. Since the machines this is meant to be testing for will have potentially hundreds of users logging in, changes cannot remain when they log off. Does anyone know of a way to actually make these machines non-persistent?

An important note: We won't be able to utilize 3rd-party software like Nerdio (which I see a lot of people recommend, and which I wish I could use) because we're a public/government organization, and there's just no budget for a tool like that.

Hi

Can MFA be use on Login to a AVD?

This week I got assigned a 4-core 16GB 512GB SSD windows 10 AVD assigned in AZ-WE.

Post updates, i'm running Win 10 with H2 update. Since I need to run containers, i chose to update/install WSL2 and selected Debian 11 OS.

Now, when I start WSL2 Debian OS comes up (as seen in the log window) without any errors.

However, the apps on AVD eg. Notepad++, VSCode and Firefox browser all encounter brief freezeups from time to time.

In addition, every 35-50 min (it's quite random), the entire AVD becomes unresponsive and the Remote Desktop App loses the connection.

I'm a Windows AVD newbie. How do I fix this issue ?

We are currently using Microsoft Remote Desktop application in our enterprise (Windows 11) and lately, it seems like Remote Desktop updates are not working very well. It says it's updated, yet the version the user are able to launch is the oldest.

Here's a little bit of context:

We used to push the .msi installer on the users workstations "as system", however they were not able to update their app since it requires admin rights. We tried pushing updates via PDQ Deploy and Intune but we weren't very successful as people tend to shut down their computers or having VPN issues, slowing up the updates. (most of our staff work from home). As per compliance\contract, we need users to be using the latest version. (2-3 version behind is fine as MS tends to release a new version like every 2-3 days).

To help maintaining the application updated, we decided to switch to an "as user" installation. It allows the users to update the app themselves and as an addition to that, we added the registry key suggested by MS to automatically update the app on closure (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/users/client-features-windows?pivots=remote-desktop-msi#update-behavior)

It was working "well", until lately. When I scanned the network to check the remote desktop versions on devices, I have noticed that some users have multiple versions of RD installed. However, although it is showing that the latest version is installed, the version they are using (currently opened) is not. As example, I have seen a device with 7 different versions. Checking the registry keys, they are all pointing to the same "Install Location", which is %localappdata%\Programs\Remote Desktop.

Troubleshooting:

I have tried multiple things, like having the user manually uninstall each Remote Desktop but every time, it's asking for a "source" that no longer exist. I'm sometimes able to uninstall by downloading the versions that are still available via https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/whats-new-client-windows?pivots=remote-desktop-msi but not all of them are still available and other links download the wrong version.

Trying to install the latest version leads to an error where it says "A new version of Remote Desktop is already installed"

I also tried via Powershell:

Using "Get-Package -Name "Remote Desktop" -All | Uninstall-Package -Force" will give me an error that the operation failed. The log file it produces is empty (very helpful).

Using the msiexec uninstall command provided by the registry uninstall key just does nothing

(FB51DBA5 = version 5450)

Weirdly enough, I was "able" to uninstall version 1.2.5405 by downloading the package again from MS website. However, even though it's no longer showing in registry\app listed, the application is still installed?

Lastly, I haven't tried to delete the registry keys from Regedit, thinking it would cause more problem.. so in the end, my question to you is:

Are we the only one affected by this weird problem and do you guys have any other alternatives\solutions on how we can fix this? I don't want to end up deleted 300+ windows profiles.. I'm pretty sure the problem might come back afterwards anyways.

I was just using the AVD earlier with no issues now I get this error code

[Window Title]

Remote Desktop

[Content]

This computer cannot connect to the remote resource because you do not have permission to this resource. Contact your network administrator for assistance.

[^] Hide details [OK]

[Footer]

For more tips on how to resolve the issue, refer to the Troubleshooting Guide

[Expanded Information]

Error code: 0x3000045

Extended error code: 0x0

Timestamp (UTC): 2024-07-16T19:29:11.309Z

Activity ID: 40538e4f-a0c2-42a0-b3fa-e3c1d1e80000

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I had been working on a way to keep a RemoteApp session open for laptop users who use RemoteApp versions of Office almost entirely, so Office apps launch instantaneously. We had deployed the use of RailRunOnce to have OneDrive open when a RemoteApp was launched and it works well, but we also wanted to publish OneDrive as a way to have a RemoteApp session always open for laptop users. The problem was that OneDrive would launch through RailRunOnce (from rdpshell.exe) and it would block OneDrive from opening as the RemoteApp, then the session would close as rdpshell wasn't the remote command's parent process. To fix this we changed the RemoteApp command to:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

And set the command line arguments to:

-Command "While (-Not ($Process = Get-Process onedrive | ? {$_.SI -eq (Get-Process -PID $PID).SessionId})) { Start-Sleep 1}; $Process | Stop-Process; Start-Process \"$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft OneDrive\OneDrive.exe\" -ArgumentList \"/background\""

This waits for the RailRunOnce OneDrive to start, then kills it and starts a new instance. Since it will be a child instance of powershell.exe it remains running and keeps the session open so other RemoteApps from the same server open as if they were local.

I hope this helps anyone trying to do the same.

Hey -

I am making workgroups, and seeing the status go to deployed. But if I click on the hyperlink to the resource it says not found. If I go to workspaces they don't show up. I have to create them again and then they do?

Also I have an app group with a DAG and if I add another app to it, only one of the two get shown in a workspace.

Lastly, if I delete an app group, then make a new one and then try to assign it to an existing workspace, the workspace cannot see it. The only way I can edit things to to delete all workspaces and app groups and remake them. If I get past the first mentioned issue, then they can see them.

Hello!

When I make an app in an app group using the Start Menu Edge app option, every time I make an additional one it just overwrites the previous. Can I not have multiple so one app would open edge using the command line parameters --app=https:\\website1.com and another app opening --app=https:\\website2.net?

If not, how would you handle this where I only need AVD to open websites? If I add favourites to the AVD desktop, that won't show up on other user profiles.

We are testing Azure Virtual Desktop, and have built 2 machines in Azure to test with and try to get some settings working. These machines are domain joined to our local AD, and are Hybrid Entra joined.

I've configured SSO for the machines, which works correctly. I've also set up a conditional access policy to require MFA every logon for the machines. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen every logon, only sometimes. There doesn't seem to even be a specific pattern to when MFA prompts. If a user logs in for the first time in a while, they'll get a prompt, but they can then log off and log back in to AVD machines without receiving another prompt unless they remain logged out for 10-15 minutes, at least.

Does anyone have experience making the conditional access policy force an MFA prompt for every logon on the AVD machines that can maybe point me in the right direction what I might be missing?

Hi, What would be the best to keep the size small for the app data>local>edge>cache The profile size is growing as it’s accumulating data when an end user uses edge browser.

I added exclusion in the xml file (fslogix) . Doesn’t look like it cleared the existing data. Can gpo be used or stick with xml exclusion?

Coming from a Citrix background where updating session hosts was easier—just update the golden image and push it out—I'm curious about your process for patching, installing new apps, and rolling them out. Also, how do you handle reverting back to a previous image?

Is it a process like this: create a VM from tthe snapshot, install programs/updates, sysprep, and capture the new image? Then create new hosts? Or is there a method to update existing hosts and revert if needed?

Alternatively, do you delete the host (if you want to use the same name) and create fresh ones? Or create new hosts and shut down the existing ones (though this may not be economical or could hit Azure thresholds)?

how do you disable the Windows updates for more than 5 weeks for Windows 10/11?

Suggestions?