AVD news of the week

Hello and welcome to another avd news of the week, the 3rd of August 2022. As usual I gathered the latest news from Microsoft and the community so let’s get started.

How to configure RDP properties for a Host Pool – Display settings

Jorge Bernhardt has released he’s rdp properties blogpost series. In this blog post he is covering th AVD display settings via powershell and CLI.

https://www.jorgebernhardt.com/rdp-properties-display-settings/

Enabling / Fixing PDF Preview for Outlook on Windows 10

Luis from Microsoft has shared a post where he explains how he fixed the PDF Preview on Outlook running on Windows 10.

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							Enabling / Fixing PDF Preview for Outlook on Windows 10
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsult/enabling-fixing-pdf-preview-for-outlook-on-windows-10/ba-p/3602110

DEALLOCATE AZURE AD JOINED AZURE VIRTUAL DESKTOP VMS WHEN A USER LOGS OFF

Jos Lieben has written a script that will deallocate a Azure AD joined machine when the user logs off. This is very usefull when dealing with the scaling of AVD hosts that are Azure AD joined.

https://www.lieben.nu/liebensraum/2022/08/deallocate-azure-ad-joined-azure-virtual-desktop-vms-when-a-user-logs-off/

A better printing experience for Azure Virtual Desktop with Universal Print

Daniel Belanger launched a blog post on tech community talking about the beneifts of using AVD and Universal Print. The upcoming Windows 11 22h2 has some great improvements coming.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/a-better-printing-experience-for-azure-virtual-desktop-with/m-p/3598592#M9699

That’s it for this week. Enjoy the weekend.

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