AVD news of the week

Hello and welcome to another avd news of the week, the last one of May 2022. As usual I gathered the latest news from Microsoft and the community so let’s get started.

Announcing General Availability of FSLogix 2201 (2.9.8111.53415)

A new version of FSLogix was released this week. It’s add’s a lot of fixes like improvements to login and logoff times, cloud cache performance improvements, and 30+ accessibility updates.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/announcing-general-availability-of-fslogix-2201-2-9-8111-53415/m-p/3270742

Announcing the public preview of the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata service in Japan.

Microsoft released a the public preview for a new metadata location. You can now deploy a hostpool in the Japan region.

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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/announcing-the-public-preview-of-the-azure-virtual-desktop/m-p/3417497

Azure Virtual Desktop x Linux

The AVD Punks has written a blog post about how to publish an Linux machine on AVD. This is a workaround but a great way to use it.

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https://avdpunks.com/avd/2022/05/23/AVDxLinux.html

Azure Stack HCI Now Supported in Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Nerdio announced the release of their support for Azure Stack HCI. This is a big deal if you want to deploy AVD on premise. Also Microsoft released Azure Stack HCI single node in GA. This will lower the cost for your HCI deployment.

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https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/05/26/2451231/0/en/Azure-Stack-HCI-Now-Supported-in-Nerdio-Manager-for-Enterprise.html

Azure Trusted Launch and Custom Images – even for AVD

Microsoft released the support for Trusted Launch with AVD a couple of weeks ago. Marcel Meurer has written a blog about this feature with WVDAdmin.

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https://blog.itprocloud.de/AVD-Azure-Trusted-Launch-and-Custom-Images/

That’s it for this week. Talk to you next week.

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