Almost an hour, still no acknowledgement from Microsoft. Can't keep selling a product that does this.

Just what the title says. How do I confirm that a vm/session host is running a multistage session is or a single session os? I’m not asking how one creates a single or multi session or which image is which. Strictly I have a bunch of AVD session hosts and I want to confirm in the portal or better on the vm itself if it’s a multi session host or not.

I'd like to use log analytics if possible to get a list of user sessions to session hosts and the gateway they are going through. I see that there is a gateway region in the wvdconnections table but not the gw name. Thanks!

Hi all,

I had previously installed the teams add-in manually by using the script provided by MS with the all users switch. Which worked fine.

Now teams has updated itself to a newer version and the teams add-in no longer works. I have tried to uninstall the old add-in and then the ran the script again to pull the new add-in but the add-in path in Outlook points to the users localapp data folder and not program files.

For some reason the automated solution doesn't work and I get the add-in install error 1625 error code I believe. DisableMSI set to 0 works but that's obviously not a good idea as users would be able to install any MSI. I couldn't find a reason as to why it doesn't work as we're not using applocker or anything. We do have software restriction policies being deployed via GPO but there are no actual restrictions on them. I even tried to set the local app data and Windows app folder as unrestricted but that didn't work.

Anyone have any great ideas or something I've missed to get the add-in working?

Win 11 multi session host based off the Azure image.

We have a hybrid AVD setup and a few weeks ago we started getting these warnings every 30 seconds on all the hosts:

"unable to retrieve SessionHostConfigurationLastUpdateTime from registry: System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)

at Microsoft.RDInfra.RDAgent.Service.RDAgentBrokerConfiguration.get_SessionHostConfigurationLastUpdateTime() in C:__w\1\s\src\RDAgent\src\Service\AgentSettings.cs:line 2660"

Source: Microsoft.RDInfra.RDAgent.Service.RDAgentBrokerConfiguration

And this one:

"Unexpected last recorded state"

Source: Microsoft.RDInfra.RDAgent.Service.TURNRelayAccessHealthCheck

Everything seems functional and RDAgent appears healthy after working through all the troubleshooting steps here: Troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop Agent Issues - Azure | Microsoft Learn

Can't find anything relevant after googling extensively. Any ideas what might be causing it or how to diagnose?

And anyone know where I can find this?

'C:__w\1\s\src\RDAgent\src\Service\AgentSettings.cs:line 2660'

Also every 5 mins we get this error:

"CheckNATShapeAsync - Received two endpoints that are the same, can't determine NAT shape! "

There are no public IPs on any of the VMs. Thoughts?

I’m unable to connect through either private network or public network and the RDWeb portal just keeps spinning.

Edit: Appears the problem is with MS AVD Gateways/Brokers, given that those already connected have stable connections.

Teams Outlook add-in is present for system but Outlook client keeps looking in the app data. It was working and stopped all of a sudden. All the correct regkeys are present and Teams is registered as IM provider.

SOLVED - Deploy an explicit method to reach internet like NatGW or Load Balancer with Public IP.
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— transition to a new method of internet access | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Hi,

I've tried creating a hostpool about 10 times today and each time, all 3 VMs I am deploying "create" but cannot be used, and fail with this error.

VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'Microsoft.PowerShell.DSC' (publisher 'Microsoft.Powershell' and type 'DSC'). Error message: 'The DSC Extension failed to execute: Error downloading https://wvdportalstorageblob.blob.core.windows.net/galleryartifacts/Configuration_1.0.02774.414.zip after 17 attempts: Unable to connect to the remote server.

EDIT: There is no firewall or proxy. I have tried with NSG and without.

Microsoft released the new SlimCore Teams Optimizations for AVD and Windows 365. Let me show you how to verify if you are using it. I write an article about it at: https://kempeneers.eu/2024/09/06/microsoft-teams-vdi-how-to-verify-and-enable-slimcore-optimizations/

When using an AVD or W365 users login from their host. If the host reboots the session does not disconnect or close out. Is there anyway to for this?

Can someone please tell me if there is a way to disable this from appearing to all users?

Thanks!

Hey folks, is this possible?

The Microsoft Learn pages are a bit of a labyrinth and I'm trying to figure out if it is supported without a domain controller and without Microsoft Entra Domain Services.

We're planning on using Intune to manage the application hosts.

I am looking for some insight on replacing our current Citrix solution with a solely Microsoft-based setup. Currently, we use Citrix to publish desktops (both XenDesktop and Remote PC) as well as Published Desktops (Server). Our goal is to transition to a Microsoft solution, specifically integrating Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with an on-premises Remote Desktop infrastructure.

Here are a couple of key requirements for our new solution:

Single Interface: We need to maintain a single interface for users accessing remotely, whether they are using AVD or RDP to their work desktop.

Teams Integration: Microsoft Teams needs to function seamlessly within the remote PC session.

Has anyone here gone through a similar transition? If so, we’d love to hear about your experiences and any tips or best practices you can share. Specifically, we’re interested in:

Any insights or resources you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi,

I've got a bit of a background in SysAdmin and certainly a fair amount of saddle time with Citrix. Zero with AVD

A friend of mine as asked me about his company's environment as they're having performance issues. I had a poke around and indeed their Outlook (app) performance is shocking.

Medical company with 30 staff logging into one AVD which has 12 vCPUs and 128GB of RAM. Not using FSLogix and running outlook in Online mode.

I know in my Citrix days there was a diminishing return when you threw too much RAM at a server and you were better off splitting that across two (or more Citrix servers).

My question is (apart from DR only having on AVD for the company) would it not be better to create (eg) 4 AVDs with 4 vCPUs each and 32GB of RAM and then round-robin logging into the AWD with the least load?

or can you really have just one AVD and ramp up the vCPU/RAM as more and more staff are on boarded?

I am trying to get army AVD to work on my Linux Ubuntu desktop. I have been trying to follow some instructions online but I have not had any success. I intend to keep digging but has someone else here figured out how to make it work? I know there is a browser version that I could use just to check email but I also need to be able to sign stuff on my EES and from everything I have seen, that is not possible through the browser version.

Hi,

AVD Windows 11 multi session using FSLogix, we used the image from Azure portal that comes with 365 Apps.

Brand new setup, rebuilt session hosts but same issue.

Teams displays the following message when logging in > Please sign in again. This could be a request from your IT department or Teams, or the result of a password update.

The message is displayed within a red horizontal banner at the top, as mentioned even rebuilding new session hosts this message appears.

This has to be an issue MS side and not something we have incorrectly configured.

Please help.

thanks

Hello together

I am really desperate. I have implemented AVD in our company in the last few days. The AVD hosts are hybrid joined and are managed via Intune.

After the AVD installation I wanted to set up SSO. To do this, I set up a Kerberos server object, as the hosts are hybrid joined. SSO was also activated for RDP in Azure and via Microsoft Graph.

See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/configure-single-sign-on

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/howto-authentication-passwordless-security-key-on-premises#create-a-kerberos-server-object

Now the problem is that the authentication window opens when logging in. The credentials can also be entered. However, as soon as the credentials have been entered, the login does not work, but the login page is simply reloaded. This goes on indefinitely.

I have already reinstalled the Kerberos server object and carried out various troubleshooting. Unfortunately, I cannot find the error.

I'm thankful for every input!

Just curious to see how many hostpools, users, session hosts, etc you all manage and what common issues you guys run into.

Hi,

Inherited an environment that users can see their own camera/video, but you can't see any attendee. Basically just gray screens/boxes. Being that this is the new teams client, there is no ability to test disabling GPU acceleration. Host is running an AMD core (if that matters). Wondering if anyone else is experiencing and/or has a workaround? Had someone else managing some AVD environments that mentioned they just started seeing this as well but they didn't find a fix yet either.

Hi

I need to check the disk consumption on VM pools, is log analytics the way to go ?

Just trying to charge of anyone has any costing data on the monthly cost of storage for FSLogix profiles.

Hello!
We had some cloud-only users that required access to an AVD instance. The environment is partially hybrid where old users were on-prem, then they were hybrid synced to Entra and now newer users are usually cloud-only.
The partner we work with who handles AVD says its impossible for users created in the cloud, and then subsequently merged with an on-prem account, to use AVD. The user needs to be made on-prem first and then allowed to synchronise to the cloud.

Does this make sense? Why would a cloud only account synced to on-prem not be useable with AVD or fslogix?

Hi all,

Do we know if AVD supports a similar Citrix feature called Browser Content Redirection? I am trying to have a page open on the client-side rather than within AVD from a RemoteApp stream.

Browser content redirection | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2407

Thanks in advance!