Hello and welcome to another avd news of the week, the 3rd of May 2022. As usual I gathered the latest news from Microsoft and the community so let’s get started.
100 Days of Cloud – AVD Blogposts
Michael Durkan has been doing some blogposts about avd this week in he’s 100 days of cloud. He’s covering the core concepts, deploying avd, custom images,…
Imaging VMs Can’t Be That Easy
Another week and another avd video from Dean! This time he covers imaging for avd in combination with Nerdio. Nice work Dean.
New Nerdio update
Nerdio is releasing an new update with a premium feature that will support Azure Stack HCI. For more details check the link below.
New AVD client for insiders
Microsoft has released a new version for the insiders ring of the avd client. Check the link below to see all improvements.
Microsoft Teams Multi-window support and Call Me are now in GA on Azure Virtual Desktop
Another features that is GA for Teams on AVD. Microsoft keeps maing AVD betrer on AVD. The users can now for example pop out chats on AVD.
Microsoft Teams background effects is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop
Another Teams update this week. You can now use background effects during your meeting on AVD.
Steps to move AVD from one subscription to another one using AZURE portal
Mohamed Farouk has written a blogpost to show us how you can move AVD to another subscription by using the Azure portal.
AUTOMATIC MODULAR RIGHTSIZING OF AZURE VM’S WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON AZURE VIRTUAL DESKTOP
Jos Lieben has written a very nice Powershell module called ADDRS that grabs mem/cpu performance of the VM you tell it to check. It will then do some smart voodoo magic to determine what size out of an allowlist best fits.
NME AND MSIX
Another blogpost of Dominiek Verham. This time he shows us how to package an MSIX package and combine it with Nerdio.
NME: CUSTOM IMAGE FOR AVD
Dominiek Verham has written another blogpost about AVD and Nerdio. In this one he covers making a custom image and he combines it with Nerdio.
that’s it for this week, enjoy the weekend.