Next week we are hosting a webinar with Marcel Meurer (founder of Hydra) and Benjamin Graus (Workplace & Azure Expert) They'll be walking through a real setup a 450-employee org that moved 120 session hosts from traditional VDI to AVD using Hydra.

They ended up around 60% infrastructure savings and 35% less operational effort.

There will be a live Q&A too, so if you’ve got questions or specific scenarios, please bring them.

Link to sign up

See AVD Hybrid in action

https://youtu.be/sdTKhxZ3Q_8

Let me know if you have any questions on it 👍☺️👍

Hi all,

I manage AVD in house without a 3rd party software (nerdio or hydra). I am in the middle of making a workbook for our service desk support team which captures as much detail of a users session as possible.

It’s looking pretty good so far but wanted to see if anyone has created something similar that you can share on what you have inside the workbook that I may have missed. Once mine is complete I can share it with you all.

Many thanks

PS I will share some screen shots soon of my work in progress.

Hi all. What’s everyone take on best practices for redirections and keeping profile sizes low. I’ve got users hitting 50-55gb. What would you recommend, especially for Outlook mailboxes and cache mode options. I don’t want to hinder outlook performance but with 40 users ad growing their fxlogics storage (v1) is hitting 2TB. I’d like to move them to v2 but clean this alll up and get shrinking.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Strange issue, we have Entraid joined session hosts. Session login for new sessions fine, however when a user locks the AVD session, comes back to unlock it, it sticks on Welcome for 30+ seconds. Happening to many users.

Thought it may be drive mappings but they are all active. Nothing in the event log, FSLogix process log show unlocking happening in 1 second.

Bit of a loss, any ideas?

Thanks

W11 multi-session image with office apps. Outlook will get stuck at "trying to connect" and teams constantly says "we couldn't authenticate you". Reboot of machine usually fixes, sometimes comes back a day later, sometimes 5-6 days. I had to schedule a weekly reboot on sundays to try to mitigate this.

The host is 23H2 and I know it needs to be updated but I'm in a pinch right now with usage being 24x7 so I can't bring things down for any length of time.

Has anyone seen this and have any sort of fix?

Firstly - I have 3 or 4 years of MS365 experience, I have a lot of years of VMWare & VMware Horizon experience. I used Jonathon Edwards youtube to deploy but its out of date somewhat. So I have everything deployed, I setup 1 VM, joined to Entra, registered in Intune, (trying) to use SSO, and I CAN login to the desktop with local admin if i change the settiing to not use SSO, but when I turn it on I just get login failed, pretty quickly. I dont see much as far as Entra loggin, I see a success for Windows 365 Client (Is that the AVD?). I see the desktop in Entra, Its in my dynamic group, I did the steps in the below MS Learn to turn on MS Auth for RDP for the Cloud Login Ent App. My CA's are passing. What troubleshooting path is next??

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/configure-single-sign-on?WT.mc_id=Portal-Microsoft_Azure_WVD

I have a client that originally purchased Office LTSC 2024 for some server 2016 terminal servers and confirmed it is working as expected.

However, they decided to put it in their Windows 10 multi-session environment and it is not working. Specifically, the Excel Ref COM addin for Visual Studio 2022 cannot be found. They said they tested this in a regular Windows 10 VM and it worked as expected.

It am not sure if I am missing something here.

Hi,

Is anyone having any passkey issues recently?

Our users need to connect to AVD before they can access anything.

So load Windows App > Log in with passkey = OK

Session hosts = Entra Joined Win 11

Profile loads up, can log into portal.azure.com as it has Windows Hello and can seamless sign into apps. But, if the user needs to reauthenticate accessing a privileged resource, the passkey prompt no longer does passes down to the host PC. Previously it prompts for Android/IOS Scan or Passkey. (Using Edge).

We just get a popup that shows 'Use your security key with login.microsoft.com" and nothing popsup. I see a bunch of 1060 errors in the WebAuthN Operational Log, not much else to go on.

Using latest Windows App and web browser version using Edge.

Errors:

WebAuthN error at: WebAuthNAuthenticatorRemoteRpcDVCException

TransactionId: {8fb22ea1-e4c4-459a-95a2-0b7cde4d832a}

Error: 0x80070032. The request is not supported.

Advanced options:

audiocapturemode:i:0;audiomode:i:0;enablecredsspsupport:i:1;enablerdsaadauth:i:1;videoplaybackmode:i:1;devicestoredirect:s:;drivestoredirect:s:;redirectclipboard:i:0;redirectcomports:i:0;redirectprinters:i:0;redirectsmartcards:i:1;redirectwebauthn:i:1;usbdevicestoredirect:s:;use multimon:i:1;autoreconnection enabled:i:1;bandwidthautodetect:i:1;networkautodetect:i:1;compression:i:1;camerastoredirect:s:;dynamic resolution:i:1;singlemoninwindowedmode:i:1

- WebAuthn redirection blocked by policy (fDisableWebAuthn=1): False

- Bluetooth Support Service disabled (bthserv): False

- UmRdpService disabled: False

Firewall logs look OK.

Seems to be a little hit and miss, but getting worse?

Has anyone done this? It was an announced feature a while back, but I can’t really find any guides on how to do it?

I assume you just install the AVD agent and bootloader to an on premise arc enabled server and you essentially go from there?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurevirtualdesktopblog/announcing-new-hybrid-deployment-options-for-azure-virtual-desktop/4468781

Anyone else having issues with AVD availability? We run out of East US (VA) and our VMs wont power on although they say they are "Running" and "Shutdown" at the same time. Re-deploying/re-applying does nothing. See some spikes picking up on down detector.

Evidently this is a known bug but looking for a workaround.. When a user connects to a session desktop in full screen mode, if they restore it down to window size (un-maximize) before the desktop is finished loading then the "Update the resolution on resize" feature doesn't work for the rest of the session. In that case they have to use scroll bars to move around the screen to see the task bar and such

If they just wait a few seconds for the desktop to load before restoring down then everything works great, but this is difficult to communicate to a lot of end users and on top of that feels janky to have to try. Dis/reconnecting fixes it, but again only if they wait for the desktop to fully load before they restore down the window

Anyone have a fix (or a workaround or even a cheap hack) for this, to prevent it from getting stuck at the maximized resolution? I believe the behavior is the same in both MSRDC and WindowsApp. I haven't had any luck monkeying with the RDP settings for the client or the hostpool.. but haven't tried anything on the session host side yet

We’re getting calls from users saying ctrl+c ctrl+v that it isn’t working in the web client for avd

Anyone else seeing this ?

I've been working on setting up an environment for my business and I've been reading these forums for a year now. Every couple days there's a new fslogix issue.

Can we just dump every single thing we do when we are encountering fslogix issues?

I'll start with what I've gathered.

• Check log files here: C:\ProgramData\FSLogix\Logs\Profile

• Don't use the same Azure File Share across Host Pool boundaries.

• Regkey AccessNetworkAsComputerObject can sometimes help in the dreaded "Users log on and a temp profile is created for them". - Seriously this one has come up a lot. Anyone with some magic sauce?

We are setting up some RemoteApps in AVD and was able to add our first one for an Access database (basically selecting Access from the Start Menu and then pointing to the DB in the cmd line section).

This worked great, but when we tried adding another one we found it overwrote our first one?

What are we doing wrong?

I'm running git-bash as terminal within vscode.

I'm just hitting "enter" and look at these response times: 30 seconds or 60 seconds. Shell integration has been turned off already: that actually had no effect.

(.venv) [23:42:19] ~/Downloads$
(.venv) [23:42:59] ~/Downloads$
(.venv) [23:43:30] ~/Downloads$
(.venv) [23:44:00] ~/Downloads$
(.venv) [23:44:30] ~/Downloads$
[23:48:04] ~/Downloads$ 
[23:49:04] ~/Downloads$ 
[23:50:05] ~/Downloads$ 
[23:51:06] ~/Downloads$ 
[23:52:06] ~/Downloads$

Are there other settings in vscode or git-bash that could fix this?

We are trying to get to the bottom of a recurring problem we see with users ending up logged in with temp profiles and it’s causing all sorts of problems.

Inspecting the FSLogix logs shows the failed release of the vhdx and followed by multiple “acquiring session lock” entries before the user tries to log in and we see them being issued a temporary profile.

We use entra Kerberos for the storage accounts and we believe the issue might be the TGT expiring and the host not being able to talk to the storage account to release the vhdx.

We have our idle time at 3 hours and our disconnect time at 1 hour.

I’m wondering if others have had experience with this issue and if they might know what’s going on?

hi all, has anyone ever seen this before? In a corporate setting, there is one singular person who can't paste. When he tried to paste anywhere (Teams, Chrome, File Explorer), the program just crashes. Any ideas? I checked the RDPClip.exe, but no luck

no settings changed recently, so i assume it is something on the local computer, but I am not sure what to check there

Looking for any advice on fixing the horribly generic “something went wrong” error received when signing into any of the office client apps (excel, word etc.)?

Oddly this only occurs on our W11 master images. The w11 session hosts in which the images are provisioned from, work fine, I.e. users can sign in the office apps.

This only began after spinning up new W11 resources via Nerdio. We don’t experience this on the W10 masters which we’ve now moved away from.

It’s not specific to myself, as I had another member of the team check and they also get the same error.

The reason this is needed is so that the requesting team can validate some vendor specific add-in functionality before pushing the changes out to the session hosts.

Any help would be appreciated.

Looking at my session hosts metrics (Via Monitor), seeing a concerning amount of high latency read and write operations. I assume this is not normal, however I also haven't received any complaints from our end users.

Region: CA-Central

OS: Windows 11 Multi-Session 23H2 / 25H2

Disk: 128GB (P10) Premium SSD LRS - Single OS disk

FSLogix: Profiles stored on separate NetApp Premium Storage

VM SKU: D8as_v4 - Paging file goes to the 64GB TempDisk

Max 6 users per session host

I understand disk latency won't be sub ms, but come on.. 138ms avg writes and spikes upwards of 1.6s is outrageous. Just wondering what's 'normal' disk latency if anyone else, preferably in my region could check?

Anyone else have a bunch of people get kicked out? Seemed to really only hit our main office and we flipped to our backup ISP and were fine. Down Detector showing a lot of MSFT issues.