AVD news of the week

Hello and welcome to another avd news of the week, the last one of February 2023. As usual I gathered the latest news from Microsoft and the community so let’s get started.

NerdioCon 2023 Build-up: Episode 3 – Mike Starnes Podcast

Shabaz has released the next episode in his NerdioCon 2023 mini series. This time he has a special guest. Mike Starnes is joining the episode this week.

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise new version

Nerdio has released version 4.7 of the manager for enterprise. It comes with several new features like the Nerdio Advisor. Go and try out this public preview now.

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https://nmw.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045731614-Release-Notes

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Web Content Filtering for Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop

Aresh has written another blog post about Defender for Endpoint and AVD/Windows 365. In this blog he walks us through configuring Web content filtering.

https://askaresh.com/2023/02/22/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-web-content-filtering-for-windows-365-cloud-pc-and-azure-virtual-desktop/

No More Syncing Users: 5 Steps to FSLogix 100% Cloud

Dean Cefola created a video explaining the workaround from Marcel Meurer. Marcel shared a blog post how to use only cloud identities with FSLogix. In this vide Dean explains us how to do it.

AVD – Deep Insights

Marcel Meurer made updates to his AVD insights workbook this week. The updates are to see the FSLogix disk usage and to see wich session hosts are not reporting their state.

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Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment

Microsoft has released a new article with all the principles that you need to apply Zero Trust for your AVD deployment. A must read.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/zero-trust/azure-infrastructure-avd

Add a new session host to an existing host pool the easy way with Terraform

I’ve written another Terraform with AVD blogpost. This time I cover a new feature in the AzureRM provider to easily deploy session hosts.

https://johanvanneuville.com/automation/add-a-new-session-host-to-an-existing-host-pool-the-easy-way-with-terraform/

That’s it for this week. Enjoy the weekend and until next week with a special NerdioCon 2023 edition.

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