AVD news of the week

Hello and welcome to another avd news of the week. The 2nd of march 2022. As usual I gathered the latest news from Microsoft and the community so let’s get started.

Connection Experience Indicator for RDS, AVD & W365 version 1.3 released

Bram Wolfs released an new version of the very popular Connection Experience Indicator tool. It will now submit connection state changes to the event log. These event can ben collected using Log Analytics or any other monitoring tool.

https://bramwolfs.com/2022/03/09/connection-experience-indicator-for-rds-avd-w365-version-1-3-released/

AVD Cross-Cloud / Cross-Tenant Deployment

John Kelbley has written a very nice blogpost about how Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) might be deployed using Azure Commercial as the control plane, and Azure Government for compute. A must read!

https://gbbblog.azurewebsites.us/index.php/2022/03/04/avd-cross-cloud-cross-tenant-deployment/

Azure Virtual Desktop/Intune – You can now auto-configure the AVD Remote Desktop Client

Microsoft released a new feature to configure the AVD client with the AVD resource feed via Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Benoit Hamet has written a blogpost about how to configure this.

https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2022/03/11/azure-virtual-desktop-intune-you-can-now-auto-configure-the-avd-remote-desktop-client/#.YitN94nMKUl

Configure subscribe to AVD in RDP Client automated 

Microsoft released a new feature to configure the AVD client with the AVD resource different ways to automate this.

https://rozemuller.com/configure-subscribe-to-avd-in-rdp-client-automated/

Auto-subscribe Remote Desktop clients to Azure Virtual Desktop \ W365 via Microsoft Intune.

Also Alex Durrant has written a blogpost about the new auto subscribe from Microsoft using Endpoint Manager.

https://letsconfigmgr.com/auto-subscribe-avd-w365-via-msintune/

New version AVD client

Microsoft has released the new version 1.2.2925 for all public users. If fixes again some issues.

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/windowsdesktop-whatsnew#updates-for-version-122925

You Can’t Reassign Your AVD Personal Hosts…OR Can You

Since Microsoft released the new feature to unassign a personal host, Dean created a video about it to explain the feature.

NerdioCon 2022 – Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio, Keynote (Day 1)

For the people who couldn’t make it to Mexico last month to attend NerdioCon, the Keynote of the CEO Vadim is online to watch.

That’s all for this week, enjoy the weekend and until next AVD news of the week.

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