Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Modernizing Azure Virtual Desktop with Nerdio and Azure Files

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:05:00 Z

Coauthored with Nerdio Organizations adopting Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) typically begin with small pilot deployments that perform well under limited load. As these environments scale to hundreds...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Storage, Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Announcing public preview of redundant TCP support for RDP Multipath for Azure Virtual Desktop

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:00:00 Z

RDP Multipath now includes redundant TCP support to improve connectivity across enterprise networks.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Azure Virtual Desktop in the Perth Azure Extended Zone: A Real-World Production Deployment

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:03:00 Z

Introduction Perth is one of the most geographically isolated major cities globally. For performance‑sensitive, graphics‑heavy engineering workloads, user experience can degrade significantly when ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in US Gov Texas in Azure Government

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 Z

Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in USGov Texas, expanding secure virtualization options for US government workloads.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Now in public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop regional host pools

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:30:00 Z

In order to increase resilience Azure Virtual Desktop is enabling new regional host pools
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Announcing new hybrid deployment options for Azure Virtual Desktop

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:00 Z

Today, we’re excited to announce the limited preview of Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments, a new platform for bringing the power of cloud-native desktop virtualization to on-premises infr...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop Sign-In Failures After Tenant Migration

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:32:00 Z

Migrating an Azure subscription between tenants can sometimes surface unexpected authentication issues, especially for environments like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) that depend deeply on Microsoft En...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Now in public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support on Azure Virtual Desktop

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:00:00 Z

Azure Virtual Desktop now supports Ephemeral OS disk in public preview, experience fast, stateless session hosts.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Azure Virtual Desktop

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:00:00 Z

Learn more about Windows 10 ESUs for Azure Virtual Desktop.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Security

Azure Virtual Desktop metadata database now available in Korea Central

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:00:00 Z

Azure Virtual Desktop metadata is now hosted in Korea Central, giving organizations more control over data residency and enabling optimized deployments for AVD and Windows 365.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

In public preview: Multiple personal desktops with Azure Virtual Desktop

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:00 Z

Learn how to assign multiple personal desktops to a single user within one host pool to streamline resource management.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Discover Azure Virtual Desktop Quickstart—now generally available

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:00 Z

Try out Quickstart to quickly deploy a sample environment and dive into Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows App.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Maximizing Virtual Desktop Performance: Uniting Azure Virtual Desktop with Citrix Solution

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:39:00 Z

What is Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)? Why Citrix and AVD Work Better Together?
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Microsoft Teams background effects is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

App attach for Azure Virtual Desktop now generally available

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:00:00 Z

App attach for Azure Virtual Desktop allows IT admins to dynamically attach applications from an application package to a user session in Azure Virtual Desktop. In December 2023, we announced a public preview for some exciting new app attach features. App attach is now generally available and here is a summary of the new capabilities: Applications can now be assigned to any host pool or session host. You can assign application packages to multiple host pools in your environment. Applications can now be assigned per user, both within a desktop session and remote app sessions. This means that in any host pool in any session, users can be assigned different application combinations. This should reduce the number of host pools and images you require. Application groups are no longer required to assign users to app attach apps, significantly simplifying assignment and reducing the number of application groups needed. Application assignment, removal, and upgrades can be performed without needing a maintenance window and without interrupting a user’s workflow. Microsoft Entra ID support for app attach has been introduced. Microsoft Entra hybrid join will work as it did before. Dependency support has improved, including modification packages for remote apps. A migration script is available to move existing MSIX app attach application packages to the new architecture. We’re excited about these new features and recommend that any new app attach object be created using the new flow. Now let’s look at these new capabilities: Screenshot of the new Azure Portal UI for app attach. Screenshot of the new Azure Portal UI for assigning users for an app attach package. Learn more and share your thoughts You can learn more about the new app attach features and Azure Virtual Desktop by visiting our Azure Virtual Desktop documentation pages. We’d love to hear your thoughts. Please leave a comment below! Continue the conversation. Find best practices. Bookmark the Azure Virtual Desktop
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features

Hibernation support now available for Azure Virtual Desktop

Thu, 30 May 2024 15:00:00 Z

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop. Explore additional capabilities that make it easier to save compute costs for your idle resources. Hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop In November 2023, we announced the public preview of hibernation support in Azure Virtual Desktop. Hibernating a session host virtual machine (VM) deallocates the machine while persisting the VM's in-memory state. When a VM hibernates, you don't pay for the compute cost associated with the VM. Instead you pay only for the storage and networking costs associated with the VM. When the session host virtual machine starts, the user will be able to quickly resume from where they left off. The following capabilities are now generally available in Azure Virtual Desktop: Hibernation can be enabled for session host VMs deployed to personal host pools. Hibernation can be chosen as the scaling action for disconnect or logoff for personal host pools. For more details about configuring personal scaling plan, see Create a scaling plan. These capabilities are available in addition to those released during the public preview, which included the following: Hibernation can be enabled on existing session host VMs. Resize is supported for session host VMs with hibernation enabled. Hibernation support extended to more VM sizes and series. Getting started You can enable hibernation when deploying session host VMs for your personal host pools using Azure Portal, PowerShell, CLI, ARM, SDKs, and APIs. You can enable hibernation for existing VMs using PowerShell, CLI, ARM, SDKs, and APIs. A screenshot of personal host pool Virtual Machines configuration in Azure Virtual Desktop with vTPM and Integrity monitoring, Virtual machine size is set to ’Standard D2as v5’, hibernate is enabled. To enable hibernation in your scaling plan, you will need to: Create a personal scaling plan. Define whether to enable or disable Start VM on Connect. Choose to
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Introducing Azure Virtual Desktop workload in Azure Stack HCI Sizer!

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:22:35 Z

Earlier in February 2024, we announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI which extends the capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud to your datacenters and edge locations . Today, we are happy to announce that ‘Azure Virtual Desktop’ is now available as a new workload category in Azure Stack HCI sizer! It enables customers to efficiently plan and size Azure Virtual Desktop deployments on Azure Stack HCI by calculating no. of VM required, suggest per VM configuration and what hardware to purchase. Azure Stack HCI Sizer Azure Stack HCI Sizer is a web-based comprehensive tool to assist organizations in accurately estimating hardware requirements for their Azure Stack HCI deployments. Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI Bringing the benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Stack HCI together, Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI lets organizations securely run virtualized desktops and apps on-premises at the edge or in their datacenter. For organizations with data residency requirements, latency-sensitive workloads, or those with data proximity requirements. Getting Started The sizer allows you to create multiple projects, thus reflecting your various business needs. To plan your Azure Virtual Desktop workload on Azure Stack HCI, first go to the sizer tool and create a new project. Step 1 of the sizer asks you for Environmental preferences that will stay consistent across your projects, for example, Preferred system type, CPU family etc. Step 1: Set Environmental Preferences Step 2 of the sizer asks for your workloads. You can now select ‘Azure Virtual Desktop’ as a Workload category when you click on ‘Add workload’. As soon as you select workload category as ‘Azure Virtual Desktop’, you can now provide information about your environment like: Max. concurrency percentage i.e., maximum no. of users who will login concurrently Session type i.e. Multi-session or Single session Workload type i.e. Light, Medium, Heav
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Stack HCI is the Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure. Now, customers who have an Azure Stack HCI subscription can download the latest feature release for their infrastructure. This new Azure Stack HCI release is the version of the product required to run Azure Virtual Desktop on- prem which is also now in GA and called Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI. This is an exciting development as the public preview of this product is in high demand specifically in Healthcare and Financial Services.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features, Services

Announcing Public Preview of Confidential VMs with Intel TDX in Azure Virtual Desktop

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:30:28 Z

We are excited to announce that Azure Virtual Desktop now supports the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These confidential VMs are powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) and enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications. Through the gated preview, we continued to enhance performance with our Intel partnership. These new virtual machines are up to 20% faster than 3rd Gen Intel Xeon virtual machines, and we expect performance for I/O intensive workloads to continue to improve as the technology matures. Azure confidential VMs (CVMs) offer VM memory encryption with integrity protection, which strengthens guest protections to deny the hypervisor and other host management components code access to the VM memory and state. For additional CVM security benefits, please see the CVM documentation for more information. For more information on AVD’s support for confidential VMs, please see this blog. For more information about Intel TDX confidential VMs, please see this blog for more information. Note: Intel TDX is offered in Europe West, Central US, and East US 2 regions. Europe North will be available in January 2024. How to deploy Intel TDX Confidential VMs in AVD Host Pool Provisioning On the Virtual machine location, select “Europe West”, “Central US”, or “East US 2”. Select Confidential Virtual Machines from the Security Type dropdown in the AVD Host Pool Virtual Machine blade. From there, go down to Virtual machine size, and click on “Change size” link. You will then get directed towards a table that gives you all SKUs available, make sure on the top, that the “Type” is “Confidential Compute”. Expand the DC or EC-Series categories and select and of the DCesv5/ECesv5 SKUs appropriate for your demand. Getting Started To get started, please visit Azure Virtual Desktop to learn more about the various benefits
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Security, Management, Regions & Datacenters

New app attach features for Azure Virtual Desktop in public preview

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:03:36 Z

New app attach functionality for Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in public preview and should roll out over the next few days. App attach has had a major re-work with new and exciting features. Here's a summary of the new capabilities in public preview: Applications can now be assigned to any host pool or session host. You can assign application packages to multiple host pools in your environment. Applications can now be assigned per user, both within a desktop session and remote app sessions. This means that in any host pool in any session, users can be assigned different application combinations. This should reduce the number of host pools and images you require. Applications are now assigned using the application itself. Application groups are no longer required to assign users to app attach apps, significantly simplifying assignment and reducing the number of application groups needed. Application assignment, removal, and upgrades can be performed without needing a maintenance window and without interrupting a user's workflow. Microsoft Entra ID support for app attach has been introduced, removing the pre-requisite for line of sight to a domain controller. Microsoft Entra Hybrid Join will still work as it did before. Dependency support has improved, including modification packages for remote apps. A migration script is available to move existing MSIX app attach application packages to the new architecture. You can learn more about the new version of app attach for Azure Virtual Desktop in our documentation. To dive deeper into the latest enhancements to MSIX and app attach overall, watch MSIX and app attach made easy from the recent Microsoft Technical Takeoff. A look at the new capabilities New Azure Portal UI and PowerShell for app attach A look at the Overview pane for Azure Virtual Desktop app attach in the Azure Portal Assign users A look at managing users for Azure Virtual Desktop app attach preview in the Azure Portal Share your thoughts If you h
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features

Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop generally available

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:30:42 Z

We are excited to announce that Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available as of November 15, 2023! With this feature, organizations with personal host pools can optimize costs by shutting down or hibernating idle session hosts, while ensuring that session hosts can be started when needed. Personal Desktop Autoscale Personal Desktop Autoscale is Azure Virtual Desktop’s native scaling solution that automatically starts session host virtual machines according to schedule or using Start VM on Connect and then deallocates or hibernates (in preview) session host virtual machines based on the user session state (log off/disconnect). The following capabilities are now generally available with Personal Desktop Autoscale: Scaling plan configuration data can be stored in all regions where Azure Virtual Desktop host pool objects are, including Australia East, Canada Central, Canada East, Central US, East US, East US 2, Japan East, North Central US, North Europe, South Central US, UK South, UK West, West Central US, West Europe, West US, West US 2, and West US 3. It needs to be stored in the same region as the host pool objects it will be assigned to, however, we support deploying session host virtual machines in all Azure regions. You can use the Azure portal, REST API, PowerShell to enable and manage Personal Desktop Autoscale. The following capabilities are new in public preview with Personal Desktop Autoscale: Hibernation is available as a scaling action. With the Hibernate-Resume feature in public preview, you will have a better experience as session state persists when the virtual machine hibernates. As a result, when the session host virtual machine starts, the user will be able to quickly resume where they left off. More details of the Hibernate-Resume feature can be found here. Getting started To enable Personal Desktop Autoscale, you need to: Create a personal scaling plan. Define whether to enable or disable Start VM on Connect. C
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Regions & Datacenters

Announcing General Availability of the new Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client User Interface

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:48:55 Z

We are happy to announce the general availability of the User Interface (UI) for the Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client. The new UI offers a cleaner, more modern look and feel. With this update, you can Switch between Light and Dark Mode View your resources in a grid or list format Reset web client settings to their defaults Switch between light and dark mode; Reset user settings to their defaults Switch between Grid and List format to view your resources How to access it The new client is toggled on by default on the web client, and the “preview” caption has now been removed from the toggle. Toggle set to New Client by default For additional information on the new UI, see What's new in the Remote Desktop Web client for Azure Virtual Desktop | Microsoft Learn and New User Interface. Note: We recommend using the new client as the original version will be deprecated soon. We will share more information on that shortly!
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

OneDrive support for Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps in public preview

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:00:00 Z

OneDrive is a robust but simple-to-use cloud storage platform for small businesses, enterprises, and everything in between. Unlike other cloud storage providers, most of the advanced enterprise-focused features in OneDrive are available for every subscription type, enabling organizations to use OneDrive in whatever way benefits them the most. Previously, OneDrive could only be used on Azure Virtual Desktop with non-persistent desktops and was not supported on RemoteApps. With this new support, you can now use Microsoft OneDrive alongside a RemoteApp in Azure Virtual Desktop, allowing users to access and synchronize their files while using a RemoteApp. When a user connects to a RemoteApp, OneDrive can automatically launch as a companion to the RemoteApp. The new support has the same features and usability as the OneDrive on your personal device. Here you can see Feedback Hub opened as a RemoteApp and OneDrive is synced and ready for the same session: The OneDrive support for Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps is currently only available with Windows 11. Helpful Resources Learn more about OneDrive here. For additional information on what the pre-requisites are and how to install you can learn more from our documentation here.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features

Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2026 - Please transition to Azure Virtual Desktop

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Because Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will retire on 30 September 2026, please transition to Azure Virtual Desktop by that date.

Azure Virtual Desktop fully replaces Azure Virtual Desktop (classic). Azure Virtual Desktop includes, but isn’t limited to, the following benefits: • Deployments via Azure Resource Manager • Unified resource management • Improved networking and security • Scaling and automation features • Feature availability and updates
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Retirements

Announcing general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop Custom Image Templates

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce that Azure Virtual Desktop Custom image templates is now general available in Azure Public Cloud and entering public preview in Azure Government Cloud and China. Custom image templates allow admins to build a custom “golden image” using the Azure Virtual Desktop management user interface. Leverage a variety of built-in customizations or add your own customization scripts to install applications or configurations. Below is an example that showcases a selection of customizations that admins can choose from. These customizations cover common configurations used in golden images. Admins won't need to write their own scripts. They can also select install language packs, FSLogix agents or Teams as well as configure popular features like time zone redirection, screen capture protection or RDP Shortpath. This feature is a wrapper for the Azure Image Builder (AIB) service. Once you have completed creating the template, Azure Virtual Desktop passes it to the AIB service. AIB will then distribute the resulting image to either a managed image or to the Azure Compute Gallery which supports capabilities such as automated versioning and image replication across any Azure region. Once this golden image has been created, you can then create a host pool from this image.You can also use any existing tooling to use this image and update your existing session hosts within a host pool. Getting Started Get started with the Custom image template documentation here. As this feature uses Azure Image Builder behind the scenes it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with this capability. Also, check out this new video titled “The AVD Admins Super Power!!!" from Azure Academy which was produced for public preview. The GA UI has had minor updates since initial release, including language improvements and enhanced tool tips with documentation links.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Announcing the General Availability of Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:24:15 Z

We are excited to announce that Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available! With this feature, users can securely access their session hosts and workspaces using a private endpoint within their virtual network. Private Link enhances the security of your data by ensuring it stays within a trusted and secure private network environment. What is Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop? Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop allows users to establish secure connections to remote resources by using private endpoints. With Private Link, the traffic between your virtual network and the Azure Virtual Desktop service is routed through the highly secure Microsoft "backbone" network. This eliminates the need to expose your service to the public internet, thereby enhancing the overall security of your infrastructure. By keeping the traffic within this protected network, Private Link adds an extra layer of security for your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Getting started Excited to get started with Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop? Learn more about this feature and its benefits by visiting here. Get started on setting up Private Link in your environment today by visiting here and enjoy the enhanced security and peace of mind that Private Link brings to your Azure Virtual Desktop experience. Update: As of July 28, 2023, Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available in Azure Government.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Private Link, Categories: Security, Services

Announcing Public Preview of Personal Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:27:42 Z

In August 2022, we announced the availability of one of our most anticipated features, Pooled Desktop Autoscale on Azure Virtual Desktop. Today, we are happy to announce that Personal Desktop Autoscale is now available in public preview! Personal Desktop Autoscale Personal Desktop Autoscale is Azure Virtual Desktop’s native scaling solution that automatically starts session host virtual machines according to schedule or using Start VM on Connect and then deallocates session host virtual machines based on the user session state (log off/disconnect). With Personal Desktop Autoscale, you can save costs by shutting down idle session hosts while ensuring session hosts can be started by users when needed.   The following capabilities are now in public preview with Personal Desktop Autoscale:  Scaling plans are available in all regions where Azure Virtual Desktop host pool objects are, including Australia East, Canada Central, Canada East, Central US, East US, East US 2, Japan East, North Central US, North Europe, South Central US, UK South, UK West, West Central US, West Europe, West US, West US 2, and West US 3. You can use the Azure portal to enable and manage Personal Desktop Autoscale in the public preview. Getting Started To enable this feature, simply create a personal scaling plan, define whether to enable or disable Start VM on Connect and what action to perform after a user session has been disconnected / logged off for a configurable period of time (deallocate the personal desktop or do nothing) across 4 phases in a day, and assign personal scaling plan to one or more personal host pools. Learn more about setting up autoscale and find answers for frequently asked questions about how to use autoscale for Azure Virtual Desktop. Watch the latest Azure Virtual Desktop episode from Microsoft Mechanics to learn more about Personal Desktop Autoscale, and additional post-deployment features like Custo
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features, Regions & Datacenters

Announcing General Availability of Confidential VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:00:00 Z

Today we are announcing the General Availability of several confidential VM and Trusted Launch security features via AVD Host Pool Provisioning. What are Confidential VMs? The AMD Azure EPYC SEV-SNP DCasV5 and ECasv5-series confidential VM series provides a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) with attestation capability by leveraging AMD SEV-SNP security features. Azure confidential VMs (CVMs) offer VM memory encryption with integrity protection, which strengthens guest protections to deny the hypervisor and other host management components code access to the VM memory and state. For additional CVM security benefits, please see the CVM documentation for more information. With this general availability, Windows 11 22H1 is now also supported in CVMs, adding to the list of already supported versions of 22H2 and other future versions of Windows 11. In addition, confidential OS Disk Encryption is available for confidential VMs, and Integrity monitoring is available during AVD Host Pool provisioning for both confidential VMs and Trusted Launch VMs. Confidential disk encryption is an additional layer of encryption that binds the disk encryption keys to the VM’s TPM and makes the disk content accessible only to the VM. For more information about disk encryption, please visit FAQ - Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn. Integrity monitoring allows cryptographic attestation and verification of VM boot integrity. It includes monitoring alerts for the VM booting because attestation failed with the defined baseline. For more information about integrity monitoring, please visit the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integration section of Trusted Launch for Azure VMs documentation. What is Trusted Launch? Trusted Launch (TL) protects against advanced and persistent attack techniques. They allow for secure deployment of VMs with verified boot loaders, OS kernels, and
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Defender for Cloud, Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features, Security, Management

Announcing the public preview of Azure Virtual Desktop Custom Image Templates

Tue, 09 May 2023 18:17:15 Z

Today I am pleased to announce the public preview of a new feature in Azure Virtual Desktop called Custom image templates. Custom image templates allows admins to build a custom “golden image” with the added capability to include Azure Virtual Desktop built-in customizations as well as your own customization scripts to install other applications or set of configurations. This feature is a wrapper for the Azure Image Builder (AIB) service. It takes the elements that you want to include in your build, and ships it to the AIB service which builds the image including any additional customizations you have either selected from the AVD built in customizations or those of your own. AIB will then distribute the resulting image to either a managed image or to the Azure Compute Gallery which supports capabilities such as automated versioning and image replication across any Azure region. We have created a number of "built-in" customizations that you can easily select to include into your image. These cover typical installations and configurations used in golden images for which you would need to write your own PowerShell scripts to configure if using other tooling to create images. This saves you time as we have automated these installations and configurations for you.These cover but are not limited to: Installing Language packs Installing FSLogix Installing Teams and configuring optimizations Installing and configuring multimedia redirection Configuring Screen capture protection Configuring session timeouts Configuring RDP Shortpath Installing any outstanding Windows updates. This list will grow as we add additional items. Once this golden image has been created you can then create a host pool from this image. You can also use any existing tooling to use this image and update your existing session hosts within a host pool. As this feature uses Azure Image Builder behind the scenes it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with this cap
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Services

Announcing Public Preview of the new Azure Virtual Desktop app in the Microsoft Store

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:48:31 Z

We are excited to announce that the Azure Virtual Desktop app is now available in the Microsoft Store for public preview! The new Azure Virtual Desktop app has the same features and flexibility as the Remote Desktop for Windows client, and includes some additional capabilities: With the Remote Desktop client, updates are only available through manual download. Using the new Azure Virtual Desktop app, updates are automatic, so users no longer need to be concerned about missing an update. Automatic updates keep users current on all the latest features and releases. The new Azure Virtual Desktop app allows the user to reduce the clutter of apps in their Start menu and personalize it by picking the remote apps they want to pin to the Start menu. The Azure Virtual Desktop app runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Download the app from the Microsoft StoreLearn more at aka.ms/AVDstoreapp File feature requests at Ideas
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: Features

Azure Virtual Desktop: The flexible cloud VDI platform for the hybrid workplace

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0700

When we launched Windows Virtual Desktop nearly two years ago, no one predicted a global pandemic would force millions of workers to leave the office and work from home. Organizations around the world migrated important apps and data to the cloud to gain business resilience and agility.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700

With the global pandemic, customers are relying on remote work more than ever, and Windows Virtual Desktop is helping customers rapidly deliver a secure Windows 10 desktop experience to their users.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Enable remote work faster with new Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities

Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0700

The service and its new updates available today in preview will be more important than ever before to simplify getting started and enabling secure access to what users need each day.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available worldwide

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Since we announced the preview of Windows Virtual Desktop in March, thousands of customers have piloted the service, providing valuable feedback and insights for Microsoft to integrate into the…
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories: