Azure Virtual Desktop
All pages referring or tutorials for Azure Virtual Desktop.
Update your Kerberos configuration with Azure Virtual Desktop (RC4)
Thursday, April 09, 2026 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Microsoft released that the Kerberos protocol will be hardened by an update coming in April to June 2026 to increase security. This was released by Microsoft here: …
I tested Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteAppV2
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Microsoft announced RemoteAppV2 under some pretty enhancements on top of the older RemoteApp engine. This newer version has some improvements like: Better multi monitor support Better resizing/window experience Visuals like window shadows I cannot …
Azure Virtual Desktop V6/V7 VMs imaging
Thursday, March 12, 2026 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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When I first chose to use V6 or V7 machines with Azure Virtual Desktop, I ran into some boot controller errors about the boot controller not supporting SCSI images. The VM size ‘Standard_E4as_v7’ cannot boot with OS image or disk. Please …
Remove Microsoft Print to PDF and OneNote printers script
Monday, December 29, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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In this guide, I will show you how to delete the printers using a PowerShell script. This is compatible with Microsoft Intune and Group Policy and can be used on physical devices, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. By default in Windows 11 with …
Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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On this page I will describe how I built an environment with a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool with FSLogix and using the Entra Kerberos option for authentication. This new authentication option eliminates the unsafe need of storing the storage …
FSLogix and maximum Azure Files security
Sunday, December 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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When using Azure Files and Windows 11 as operating system for Azure Virtual Desktop, we can leverage the highest SMB encryption/security available at the moment, which is AES-256. While we can change this pretty easily, the connection to the storage …
Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Properties
Thursday, November 27, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop. I will be talking about local PC’s and remote PC’s alot, where the remote PC is of course the Azure Virtual Desktop host …
Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Thursday, October 09, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Azure Compute Gallery is a great service in Azure to store, capture and maintain your VM images. This can be helpful when deploying multiple similar VMs. Use cases of this can be VM Scale Sets, webservers , containers or Azure Virtual Desktop session …
Customize Office apps installation for Azure Virtual Desktop
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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When deploying Microsoft Office apps to (pooled) Virtual Desktops, we mostly need to do some optimizations to the installation. We want to optimize performance on pooled and virtual machines, or maybe we want to enable shared computer activation …
Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Joining a storage account to Active Directory can be a hard part of configuring Azure Virtual Desktop or other components to work. We must join the storage account so we can do our Kerberos authentication against the storage account. In this guide I …