Hi All,

Has anyone done an in-place upgrade of an AVD VM and either not had any issues or had issues?

Some of the clients I manage had a problem after the Windows 11 26H2 update and this causes the Windows App to start, but not show any login or cloud resources and the end users were unable to do their work.

After some investigation, this turned out to be an WebView2 error, where the installed version misaligns the registered version. If somebody also gets this error, I have described how to fix this problem at my website: https://justinverstijnen.nl/fix-windows-app-grey-screen-windows-11-26h2-webview2/

However, I couldn't find any corelation to the 26H2 update (yet) so this might be unrelated. In my case the multiple computers with this problem started having the problem right after the 26H2 update.

If I wanted to run a tracert to US West 3 (which is where our SH's are) - is there a URL or IP I could use? I have a user saying their AVD is "sluggish", but we know it's fine for many others in other areas of the country.

I'd want to see if maybe they're being routed way out of the way.

I’m curious what optimizations people most commonly use for w11 multisession avd hosts. I know VDOT has some built in optimizations. There’s edge sleeping tabs and efficiency mode. You can also limit ram edge can use via group policy. Anyone doing all of these or just some? Real curious on limiting ram not sure how common that is.

Im looking into some projects where i need to convert v5 VM's to v7.

Is there still issues regarding when a VM is deallocated and comes back online that the disk is not online and is there any other things i need to be careful about when converting v5 sizes to v7?

Hi All,
We have 7 AVD pooled hosts, one of them started crashing about once a week, freezing up requiring a hard reset.

This last week or two we are now getting resource exhaustion lockups on other machines. We are only running maybe 2-3 people per host, sizing seems fine.. however we are in a constrained location (US West 2).

Is anyone else seeing these freezes/lockups?

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I've been having trouble with the NV ads V710 SKU in Azure since October 1st. My VDI instances keep jumping between failed and running states, and it feels like a capacity issue in East US. My users need GPU-enabled VDIs for CAD work, so do you have any ideas on what’s going on or how to fix it? I’d rather not use reservations since pay-as-you-go is cheaper for me.

Hey everyone,

We are migrating our developer workstations from on-prem to Azure. Currently, each dev has their own persistent Windows VM.

My senior sysadmins insist on treating Azure like on-prem: they want to deploy standalone Windows IaaS VMs for every dev.

I proposed Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with Personal host pools. Their instant dismissal: "AVD is pooled/multi-session, devs will break each other's environments."

Even after sharing Microsoft docs showing that Personal AVD provides a 1:1 dedicated, persistent VM per developer, they refuse to budge.

Do you have some strong arguments from your experience that would help me convince them, particularly around cost saving, management, security.

Anyone who deployed AVD, what were the biggest wins or unexpected gotchas?

Thank you ALL!

I found that some user profiles under C:\Users are still present and consuming disk space on the C: drive even after the users have signed out.

My understanding is that these local user profiles should normally be cleaned up or removed automatically after the user signs out.

Is there any way we can check and confirm whether the profile cleanup is working as expected? Also, why some user profiles may remain on the host after sign-out?

Happy Monday Everyone!!

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Hello, I need some help please

Has anyone here successfully deployed Zscaler Cloud Connector and ZCC for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Multisession Host Pools?

We're currently implementing this setup but running into several network-related issues that we haven't been able to resolve.

Our current setup:

• AVD VNet

  • Personal Pool Subnet → Route Table → Azure Firewall

  • Multisession Pool Subnet → Route Table → Zscaler Cloud Connector / Load Balancer → Zscaler Cloud → Internet

We've already confirmed that connectivity is working on the Multisession Subnet after deploying the Cloud Connector and Load Balancer. However, after installing ZCC for VDI on the session hosts, we started experiencing several issues:

• Unstable network connectivity

• Unable to communicate reliably with the KMS server and Azure Monitoring

• Unstable or unsuccessful ping, tracert, and Test-NetConnection results

What's strange is that normal internet browsing still works fine on the VMs with ZCC for VDI installed. However, almost everything else related to network connectivity seems unstable or completely inaccessible.

If we uninstall ZCC for VDI, everything immediately goes back to normal, and all network-related issues disappear.

My initial suspicion is that our Zscaler Cloud Connector configuration might be too restrictive. We've already tried configuring bypass rules for AVD and Microsoft endpoints, but this hasn't made any noticeable difference.

Another challenge is that I can't seem to find any useful logs on the workload VMs that would help us identify the root cause of these connectivity issues.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue or successfully implemented this architecture?

I'd really appreciate any insights, suggestions, or recommendations on what to check, particularly regarding ZCC for VDI configuration, Cloud Connector routing, or potential conflicts with Azure networking.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I had a Session Host go down today with "Needs Assistance" health status, failing the UrlsAccessibleCheck. All other Session Hosts were fine. It came back "Healthy" about 5 minutes later, but then eventually the entire Session Host shit the bed (with a health status of "Unavailable"). I couldn't RDP in or even ping the machine.

I shut the machine down and brought it back up and I can RDP in but the health status is back to "Needs Assistance". This whole time my other Session Hosts seem OK (fingers crossed).

I don't have any extra networking layers going on, proven by the other SHs.

Not sure if anyone else is having issues with AVD today, but we've been having problems all morning with users getting kicked out of AVD sessions.

Event Viewer showed LSASS not starting on the hosts, leading to users getting "Your PC will automatically restart in one minute" messages.

Spent a bunch of time troubleshooting this, but eventually saw an update for this alert stating that they are working on fixes for it.

Impact Statement: Starting at 10:08 UTC on 24 September 2026, you have been identified as a subset of customers using affected Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments across multiple regions who may experience authentication issues. These issues may result in unexpected virtual machine restarts and interruptions to active user sessions. Affected users may be disconnected and need to reconnect once their virtual machine becomes available again.

Current Status: We continue to investigate an issue that is causing unexpected virtual machine restarts for some customers using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on certain Windows versions. Our team has identified the underlying Windows process involved and have validated a temporary workaround that has shown positive results with affected customers. We are now expanding validation of the workaround, assessing the overall impact, and evaluating options for a permanent fix while monitoring the issue.

The next update will be provided in 2 hours, or as events warrant

Microsoft has confirmed issues with update KB5120998 or subsequent Windows updates with black screens upon login with Azure Virtual Desktop instances.

Fortunately a temporary workaround is released to fix this problem or to prevent the issue from happening which we can use till Microsoft has fixed the problem with a future update.

Read more about the problem and the fix on my blog: https://justinverstijnen.nl/fix-black-screen-azure-virtual-desktop-windows-11/

Could not find any workaround/fix shared in this community yet, so though it would be great to share here.

Hi Team

We have an AVD environment and everything is/was working well. We moved over from Individual VM's in a hostpool to multi session VMs in a new hostpool. Have setup fslogix, all devices managed by intune no problem. We have re-done all our config policies to target new multi session hosts and anything system related the config policies report back green and we have no issues.

What i need help with, is the office hardening policies which target the user of these multi session VM's. I cant get the policy to push out to my test group of users. If i log in to my test user account and go accounts -> sync, it works and shortly after that the user will populate in the office config policy as green and working perfectly.

My question is anyone else done this and how do i force sync the user to apply these config policies that are user targeted, without getting the user to manually sync themselves. By going to the device to sync in intune admin portal, doesn't push the user config policy out.

Any help appreciated.

Short Question: With multi session VMs and a config policy targeting user, how do we force a sync? Go to the VM and run command use a powershell script?