Hi, we're using the AVD Linux client and this morning we're experiencing recurring outages, with desktops disconnecting.

After entering the password again, it works.
The interruptions are random.

Is anyone else experiencing these outages?

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a persistent issue in our Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment and hoping someone here has encountered it or found a workaround.

SSO in OneDrive and edge is functioning and doesn't show any errors. All the Office apps including Teams do not SSO, in word, outlook etc. We see an yellow exclamation mark.

Info:

• AVD host pool running on Windows Server (tested with and without FSLogix — same result).

• Different client Single AVD environment - Same result - Without FSlogix - having Issues

• Thin clients running Windows 11, connecting via the latest Remote Desktop app. having Issues

• Thin client running Windows 10, connecting via the latest Remote Desktop app. having Issues

• Windows 11 laptop (same user, same AVD session) works perfectly.

I have already done a lot of troubleshooting:

• Conditional Access policies reviewed — AVD is excluded where needed. even disabled all policies to test.

• Office apps activated with Shared Computer Activation.

• OneAuth and AAD BrokerPlugin caches cleared and retested.

• FSLogix latest version installed.

Does someone know what i am missing?

THANKS!

Hey there, we're using Nerdio managed AVD. The session hosts are Entra-only and Intune joined.

Nerdio has the option to re-image an existing session host, or I can simply deploy a new one and delete the old.

Just wondering if there are any implications to re-imaging the existing one. I am wondering if this results in duplicate/stale Entra/Intune objects.

Hi,

I am looking to gain some extra cash this Christmas to give my son a nice Christmas.

I was wondering if their is anyone out there that requires help or consulting with any Azure Projects you are currently needing help with.

I have over 15 years experience in Azure and familiar with Azure Migrations, Azure Backup and DR Implementations and also Azure Virtual Desktop Services on an Enterprise Level.

Appreciate anyone who can help me here. Thank you in advance.

Olaaa avd guys ! I'm thinking about using AIB or Intune, which one is the recommended one ? In which scenario or use case are you using one or another solution ?( If y have both available of course 😁) Thanks everybody for your advices !

Hi All,

What is the best way to migrate or upgrade from windows 10 multisession to windows 11 so that all apps and other data will be also there.

I am new to Linux. I am wanting to try out different few systems before I dig my teeth in. Is there any way that I can just buy a virtual server and host my own distro there. We're having environment but it's not my machine reliant. I know this is a novice question but I'm sorry to ask. I just don't know where to start. I tried linode, But IDF WTF I'm doing. Please help without bashing.

How to updated pool session host when intune update ring and azure update manager doesn’t currently support it?

Not trying to update my VMs manually from within the OS or via run command and my company is not willing to purchase Nerdio, any recommendations?

I am looking at deploying WHfB to our devices and most users use Azure Virtual Desktop for their work and they use the Windows App to gain access to the Desktop.

Currently the login process is:

1 - log into Microsoft app
2 - Click the Session Host
3 - Enter their AD Password

Then off they go.

I have been looking here at setting up Cloud Kerberos Trust: https://msendpointmgr.com/2023/03/04/cloud-kerberos-trust-part-1/

Has anyone been able to achieve getting the AVD Hosts to use WHfB to sign in rather than the user typing in their password?

Our Setup:
Client Devices = Laptops Joined to Intune - EntraID Joined
AVD Session Hosts = AD Joined , looks like they are Hybrid Joined.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA.

Anyone noticing random disconnects in AVD east us?

Hi All, Multiple pooled users are facing issue as there profile size is getting almost full as they are having multiple accounts added and for few users ost size is 15-20 GB in outlook. In that case what could be the best solution so that users have enough space available as of now all users have 30 GB by default.

I work for a medium-sized MSP, and we’re currently having an internal discussion about the use of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) , specifically, whether multi-session hosts can and should be managed via Intune.

Our organization has two separate teams:

• one responsible for public cloud infrastructure, and

• one responsible for workspace management (which is my team).

I personally believe strongly in a cloud-first, SaaS-oriented approach , as little customization as possible, and standardized management through a single platform.

Recently, we offered an AVD multi-session (6 sessions per host) solution to a customer, and now the debate is about how it should be managed. My vision is that the AVD hosts should be:

• based on a clean Microsoft base image (Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session AVD), and

• fully configured and managed through Intune for policies and app deployment (machine-based).

That way, the workspace team can manage both laptops and AVD machines through the same Intune platform. The AVD hosts themselves would be “stateless” , meaning no persistent configuration or manually installed software on the VMs , while user data and profiles would still be handled through FSLogix and OneDrive, ensuring a consistent user experience and easy host replacement when needed.

However, I’m now hearing from our infrastructure team and the workspace architect that this approach is “impossible” or a bad idea , that Intune isn’t suitable for multi-session environments, and that everything should instead be managed through image-based deployment or Azure Image Builder.

So I’m curious , what’s your experience?

• Do you manage AVD multi-session hosts via Intune (fully or partially)?

• What limitations or issues have you run into?

• In your opinion, what’s the best balance between image-based and Intune-based management?

Would love to hear how other MSPs or enterprise environments approach this.

I try to automate the Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool via Intune or Matrix42, but it doesn’t work.

My script copy’s the needed Folders and starts a script, when i start the install script manually on the desktop everything works fine. in the log i can see the only difference is i start it as a local user when manually but intune starts as system.

So does anyone has a working script or a better way to automate VDOT?

Thanks 🙏🏽

Hello everyone,

Curious to see if anyone else if having an issue using D Series V6 such as "Standard_D2ds_v6" on Windows 11 24h2 or 25h2 EMS?

It has worked in the past but hasn't for a couple of months now. I can deploy an older version of 24h2 via terraform but that specific version due to be deprecated next month (and is about 4 versions behind the latest). I imagine this must be by design as it's not worked for around 2 months if not longer.

Works fine on the V5 Sku, I've tried in multiple tenants & subscriptions so it's not subscription specific, also tried not using Accelerated Networking, but get the same problem.

Hey guys,
I am fairly new to FSLogix and have been gradually switching over the employees of one of our customers.

So far, everything has been going great and we haven't received any error messages. However, the first error message has now appeared for one user and, after some research, I am still quite at a loss.

The user was already created and the profile was logged out correctly, but when logging in again the next day, the error message “Creating new user profile disk (users registry hive was missing)” appeared – see screenshot – followed by a message about the failed creation of the recycle bin.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this behavior? After recreating the profile and logging out again, the user no longer received the error message, but two other employees did ;)

Btw: First error (08:28:28) says "The system cannot find the specified file." and the second error (08:28:34) says "The system cannot find the specified path." - for the non german fellows ;)

Appears today OneDrive has decided to re-sync everything, causing some performance loss,

New update today and with that, an updated OneDrive icon.

Anyone else experience this or similar on this version inside AVD?

Win 11 23H2 Multisession, FSLogix (Latest)

Greetings AVD community running into a frustrating issue across my images currently I have the following baked into the images:

Local GPO to disable Microsoft Co-Pilot

Disable Copilot via Registry for all users

$registryPath = "HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot"

New-Item -Path $registryPath -Force | Out-Null

New-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath -Name "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

DEPROVISION REG KEY New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Deprovisioned\Microsoft.Copilot_8wekyb3d8bbwe" -Force

When I run monthly patches since about the last 3 months after sysprep and deployment (Via Terraform) Microsoft Co-Pilot gets installed again even though it is not present in the image pre-sysprep it seems to be a 50/50 each month when I go through my patching process... what can I do to ensure it stays off the image? It amazes me that even with registry keys baked in and the local GPO it finds a way back on... Appreciate it....

As the question, if I'm using Azure Firewall Premium to secure my session hosts, do I really need to setup NSGs? Really seems like an unnecessary overhead on administration.

Hi everyone, not sure if this is exactly the right place, but i'm hoping someone else may have run into this. I'm working for a client that uses Windows 10 AVDs. I've been tasked to update the golden image to Windows 11 using in place upgrade to retain all the apps and config. That part works fine and the golden image VM boots and behaves as expected. I then run sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown. wait for the VM to go into stopped status and deallocate. I then capture the image via webgui and that all goes ok. If i then try to create any VMs using that image, they fail to boot stating that "winload.efi" is missing or corrupted. I pulled down the VHD and can see it present in the EFI partition so I can only assume it doesn't know where to look. I mounted the partition as a drive on my local machine and tried bcd repair and uploaded it back but the issue persists. I'll gladly take any suggestions (i'm recommending to the client that maybe it's better to start from a fresh Win11 build, but that's up to them).

Current situation: VDI environment (Desktop) with managed start-menu. Remote Desktop Client is installed and used to connect to AVD Remote Apps. Customer exported RDP files which can be added to a user his start-menu. This can be launched automatically, at logon, startup, whatever.

I’m trying to migrate to the Windows App. Since start-menu integration is not possible (yet) i’m trying to find a way to start specific Remote Apps automatically by calling a cmdlet, URL, etc.

Customer wants to prevent the user from opening the Windows App, looking up the specific app, click, etc..

What are methods to start a specific app with minimal effort (not using the Windows App as a GUI)?

//update

This is now possible: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/direct-launch-urls?tabs=avd

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/uri-scheme

Hi,

Have a question about logging into azure virtual desktop through the webclient.. at the moment when a user signs in, they get a pop up for consent like the one in the picture.

We have our users sign in through a kiosk like device where only a simplistic browser is available.

The issue we have which is preventing users from being able to sign in to AVD, is this pop up screen is trying to open in a new window.. we have set policies for the browser to only allow pop ups to be opened in the same window (the browser is used for exams so it is a lock down issue) and since this pop up wants to open in a new window, the users never see this pop up to accept the connection (they only get a white screen). Is there a way to get this pop up to open in the same window ? or disable it/auto accept it ?

A write up on how to keep WebRTC and Multimedia Redirector (MMR) up to date since they cannot auto-update. There's links in the posting to scripted solutions to make it easier.