AVD news of the week

Hello and welcome to the first avd news of the week of september 2021. As usual I gathered the latest news from the community and from Microsoft.

WVDAdmin updates

Marcel Meurer has shared another update for he’s WVDAdmin tool. He again added some awesome features.

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WVDAdmin – A native administration Gui for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) | ITProCloud Blog

AVD Classic to ARM Migration Tool

Microsoft announceed the Public Preview of the Migration tool to migrate from classic deployments to ARM. If you still have classic environments you can use this tool to migrate them.

Verify Teams for AVD using SCCM Configuration Item with Windows 11 Operating System

If you want to check if Teams is correctly installed on AVD and windows 11, check out this blogpost from Anoop Nair. He explains how you can do it using SCCM 2107.

Verify Teams for AVD using SCCM Configuration Item with Windows 11 Operating System
https://www.anoopcnair.com/teams-for-avd-using-sccm-configuration-item/

Announcing general availability of Screen Capture Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft announced that Screen Capture Protection is now generally available. When using this your environment will be more secure. Go and try it out.

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Announcing general availability of Screen Capture Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Tech Community

Move AVD session hosts to a new host pool with REST API

For people who want to move session hosts to another hostpool be sure to check the blogpost of Sander Rozemuller. He explains you how to do it with REST API.

https://rozemuller.com/move-avd-session-hosts-to-a-new-host-pool-with-rest-api/

Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts Cost Savings

I wrote a blogpost explaining some ways to save costs on your session host compute cost because these are the highest costs.

Azure Virtual Desktop Pricing: Optimize Costs
https://johanvanneuville.com/avd/azure-virtual-desktop-session-hosts-cost-savings/

FSLogix slow sign-in (fix) redux

Michael Mardahl wrote a blogpost about an issue he encountered when a user logged on and got a black screen. In the post he describes all the steps he took to fix the issue.

https://msendpointmgr.com/2021/08/30/fslogix-slow-sign-in-fix-redux/

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise update

Nerdio released a new version in public preview full with awesome features. Go and try it out.

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Teams Media Redirection on Azure Virtual Desktop

Mr T-Bone has written a blogpost where he covers the installation of Teams with the optimizations. If you missed he’s session from on the Workplace Ninja Summit go and check out this blogpost.

http://www.tbone.se/2021/09/03/teams-media-redirection-on-azure-virtual-desktop/

What’s new in Azure Virtual Desktop

We started a new month so Microsoft released an overview of all the new things that they added to the service. Again a big list.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/whats-new#august-2021

What’s New & What’s Coming in Azure Virtual Desktop

On the 14th september Microsoft is hosting an event where Pieter Wigleven will talk about some new features like Azure AD Join.

https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x12469986abcd

That’s it for this week, enjoy the weekend and see you next week!

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