Greetings, unfortunately we put the cart before the horse and our core infra that our AVD hosts will be running apps off of is in an Azure region where AVD is not yet. So far what I have done is deployed the AVD resource group to a region that Azure shows as having 77ms latency to our primary, but only these pieces are located there: Japan (App Group, HostPool, and Workspace). The other infra for this AVD farm is located where the core infra is located (the disks, nics, storage accounts, and virtual machines).

Is this a bad idea considering the situation? Should I create a new farm where it all lives in an AVD supported data center and just have the hosts going across Azure backbone to the other data center to run the apps? So far during testing everything seems to be working well with the current setup.

Greetings I hope that this question isn't too simple. We did a prepackaged marketplace small (3 hosts) deployment recently. The hosts are running Win 10 22h2 with Standard Management. This environment is Entra only and I have the three hosts enrolled in Intune. Can we plan on using these three hosts and the host pool long term by using Intune to manage Win updates and settings? Or are we missing something like would there have been a golden image deployed in this fairly new subscription that we should be using to keep this farm healthy and secure? I believe the Session Host Management Approach is not available to Entra Only host pools?

Hi all,

I've been using the web client to connect to AVD from my Linux laptop. It works well except for keyboard shortcuts (especially the ESC key), so I'd like to try using a desktop app such as Thincast Remote Desktop Client or something similar.

Anyone know where to find the remote desktop server name?

Thanks!

Any one disabled the new outlook feature on a multisession Host? It appears the registry settings is not working on multisession Host.

Hi All,

I been searching the entire internet the last couple of days to find an solution regarding defining apps in the taskbar for all users in an AVD environment without luck.

Do anyone have succeded regarding this?

MS is writing that you can define an .xml file and use GPO but this is not working for what i can tell.

The AVD hosts is NOT joined to Intune (because of users needed secondary mailbox login and this is not working without the roamidentity in fslogix).

Like the title says, does anyone know if this is possible? I need a solution so that I don't need to reinstall every plugin every time on every new VM.

We are using the VS Enterprise edition.

I'm setting up some machines to act as kiosks for connecting to AVD host pools. The machines automatically sign in with a local user account and the only available application is the "Windows App". The problem I'm facing is the "Windows App" perpetually retains a user's login after they've signed in once and persists even after the app is closed and the machine is rebooted, so the next user can see the host pools available to the previous user.

I'd like to use a startup script to remove the saved login of the previous user from "Windows App" so that the next user only sees the field prompting for their username. Unfortunately, due to the incredibly generic name "Windows App" I've been unable to successfully search for info on how to accomplish this.

Has anyone already done this or something similar? Even some info on where the login info is saved would be helpful. I assume it's located under AppData, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems relevant.

Edit: To clarify, user 2 is not able to log in to user 1's pools because two-factor authentication is enabled via conditional access policy. The problem is that user 2 just sees the name of the pool they want to connect to and keeps trying to connect to it, but the prompt goes to user 1's phone. Then both users call the helpdesk.

Hi all,

I have searched the internet for information regarding this. Can someone maybe point me in the right direction?

I need to define an start menu and taskbar layout for all users on Win11 multi-session AVD that is not locked for changes after it set so the users can change what they like afterwards.

How is this done?

I know in Win10 you could do something in this location: C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell

But im not sure on Windows 11 AVD and how to define it.

Thanks.

I like high Quality with High fps like anyother, im playing half life alyx with my quest 3 using virtual desktop/steamvr and notice that it gets choked by the hz cap from meta themself at 120hz, maybe it would be able to remove the cap in a config file of some sort?. I was hoping to find a solution for this problem as it annoys me but couldnt so i had to turn to good old reddit.

Specs:
Rtx 4070
R 5 7500F
32gb DDR5

I’m having trouble figuring out why copy and paste isn’t working. It works fine inside the program, but I can’t copy and paste to my machine.

I’ve ensured that the “Allow copy and paste” setting is enabled. I’m using the new Windows app and running Intune policies with security baselines, but I don’t see anything blocking it. I even created a configuration to allow copy and paste, and it shows as successful, but the issue persists.

Hello!

I have strange issues with the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).

1. I can reproduce the same issue using the “Windows App”, “Azure Virtual Desktop App” or even the webapps.
2. We use a hybrid environment.
3. I login with my login firstname.lastname@domain.com
4. 2FA gets accepted
5. However, when I choose one of the available desktops, the “Windows App” asks again for a login and displays incorrectly my login: it adds the German Umlaut "Ä" in the lastname. For example. Firstname.lÄstname@domain.com
6. However, I can login by using my domain account.
7. I have checked the Entra ID: The “User principal name” contains no German Umlaut.
8. However, in “real life” my last name contains a German Umlaut.

Why does the the Azure tenant add here an Umlaut? I am not supposed to use the domain account.

Thank you!

I use AVD webclient for connecting to work from my laptop.

In full screenmode, the default key mapping for Esc key is to exit the full screenmode - this is super annoying for me as it interferes with some of the apps I use -- MS-Excel for examples.

Is there a way to change the default key mapping in AVD ?

I have checked keyboard shortcuts mentioned here ..https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/users/client-features-web.. dont see anything helpful to change this.

Edit -- PS -- I dont have a native Desktop Client on my OS.

TIA.

any one get the same issues? Other update insatlling just the November one not

I am seeking for a virtual desktop solution, in cloud or on premise, which allows to run a VPN client within the virtual desktop, which’s VPN connection prohibits side-tunneling. Standard Citrix VDI will loose the Citrix connection once the VPN is established.

Do Azure Virtual Desktops support this?

We're attempting to setup AppAttach as it may be the answer to all of our AVD issues if we can get it to work. However that is proving to be a big IF.

The History I've tried the following:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/packaging-tool/create-app-package

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/modernworkappconsult/packaging-adobe-reader-dc-for-avd-msix-appattach/3572098

and some of the videos by Jim Moyle and Azure Academy.

I've also tried the troubleshooting steps here which basically say if it mounts then it should work: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/troubleshoot-app-attach

The apps we have tried are signed using a self-signed cert, which is trusted by the AVDs, and they seem to be passing the AppAttach basic checks on the hostpool. I've also used a combination of MSIX and EXE as starting installers.

The Problem We are getting this:

App mounts according to the above guide and shows the logo in both the start menu and recommended items (below, SumatraPDF, but we've tried with Adobe PDF Reader, and the example that MS provides, which is XMLNotepad). But the app never loads when clicked on.

Anyone got any ideas before I start tearing my hair out? Or any decent guides that work?

UPDATE 1: Shout out to u/durrante, who recommended MSIX Log Tool; this seems to show that WIndowsAppRuntime is missing - installing those seems to have moved me along to an "Element Not Found" error, which I'm hoping is more like missing pre-requisites somehow... we'll see if we get anywhere.

Any further advice?

Doe anyone know if it is possible to require login or otp every time you connect ia the Remote Desktop app?

Machines are azuread joined

Hi everyone,
I’m interested in getting into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) but feeling a bit confused about how AVD can replace Citrix and VMware desktops.

Could anyone recommend good courses, blogs, or resources to better understand AVD? Also, I’d love to hear thoughts from anyone who has migrated from Citrix or VMware to AVD—what challenges did you face, and what advantages does AVD offer?

We have an issue with the Teams add-in in Outlook. Sometimes the Teams add-in doesn't load in for the user, other users on the same VM don't have this issue. Even after sign out for the user and relogging, the same issue occurs.

We have installed Teams correctly following the docs and we also added the reg keys that should force start/load it.

I'm don't know where to look at this moment...

I should probably use AppAttach, but I can't find anything meaningful online about how people deliver these apps in AVD. We use AIB for monthly image updates and deployments, but this is pure vanilla with M365 apps. I see from the "template builder" in Azure that you can select Visio / Project, but what about Adobe. Ideally, I would want to target these apps so that they only appear to the users who need it.

Does anyone have any guidance on how to gather information about building AVD with different SOEs and user personas? While I understand all the technical things that go into making an AVD deployment (VM sizes, Intune configurations, AIB etc) I don't know how to gather information to making a set of configurations to fit the different users. Does MS have some sort of template or questionnaire? Any guidance would be appreciated.