AVD news of the week

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

1 Azure Setting You Should Change NOW!!!

Dean created another great video about AVD. This time he talks about the private endpoint feature that is just released in public preview.

New ways to optimize flexibility, improve security, and reduce costs with Azure Virtual Desktop

In case you missed Ignite, you can now watch the session from the AVD product team with a great roadmap session packed with demo’s.

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https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/e016948a-1646-420e-9597-fae2b6d3ce29

Microsoft Intune user scope configuration for Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session VMs is now GA

Another great update for AVD and Intune. It’s possible now to cvreate User-Specifix settings via Intune for AVD.

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							Microsoft Intune user scope configuration for Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session VMs is now GA
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop-blog/microsoft-intune-user-scope-configuration-for-azure-virtual/ba-p/3667410?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004159

Announcing general availability of FSLogix profiles for Azure AD-joined VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop

David Belanger announced the feature to use FSLogix profiles on Azure AD Joined session hosts. This is the next step to go full cloud with AVD. Be aware the users still need be Hybrid.

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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop-blog/announcing-general-availability-of-fslogix-profiles-for-azure-ad/ba-p/3671310

What is new in Azure Virtual Desktop for October 2022

In case you missed all the AVD announcements from last month, you can read them all here on the whats news page.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/what-is-new-in-azure-virtual-desktop-for-october-2022/m-p/3671032

Route AVD traffic through static WAN IP with Azure Firewall automated

Sander created a blog post where he explains how to automate the routing of all the AVD traffic to your Azure Firewall and make sure that all the traffic goes outside of the network on a public ip.

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https://www.rozemuller.com/route-avd-traffic-static-wan-ip-with-azure-firewall-automated/

Sysprep and deploy Windows 11 22H2 in Azure with a custom image and a workaround

Marcel Meurer posted a nice blog about an issue you can encounter whil created a golden image with Windows 11 22H2. He explains the issue and tells us the workaround he found.

https://blog.itprocloud.de/SYSPREP_and_rollout_deploy_WINDOWS_11_22H2_in_Azure/

Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop

Another great video from Mahammad. This time he coverrs the new public preview feature to use private endpoints in combination with AVD.

Rollout issues: AVD Agent 1.0.5555.1008 and newer are causing high timeouts for upgrading themselves

Marcel posted another great blog this week. The new AVD agents takes alot of time to upgrade. Marcel has released an update to Hydra to help with this long upgrade time.

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https://github.com/MarcelMeurer/WVD-Hydra/blob/main/avd-agent-timeouts.md

Announcing public preview of Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft announced the public preview of Private Link support for AVD. This is a great feature to make AVD more secure.

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							Announcing public preview of Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/announcing-public-preview-of-private-link-for-azure-virtual/m-p/3671226#M10067

That’s it for this week, enjoy the sunny weekend.

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