Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop: Cut Entra Hybrid Join Times from Hours to Minutes

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G’day! If you’ve ever deployed Azure Virtual Desktop with Entra Hybrid Join, you’ll know the frustration. You deploy a perfectly good session host, everything provisions beautifully, domain join works, applications are installed, and then you sit there. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more for the bloody thing to show up as ‘Entra Hybrid Joined’ […]

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Teams VDI Optimisation Blocked by Security Policies? Here’s the Intune Fix for AVD & Windows 365

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G’Day! I recently needed to fix an optimisation issue with Microsoft Teams on Windows 365 Cloud PCs — Teams was showing as “Not Optimised”. Once I traced the cause I realised the same fix works just as well for Azure Virtual Desktop, so I thought I’d share. If you’ve ever implemented security frameworks like CIS

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Teams Privacy Popups: Sort Them Once for All AVD and Windows 365 Users

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G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick one today that I know will resonate with anyone managing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 environments – those bloody annoying Microsoft Teams privacy prompts! You know the ones I’m talking about. Every time a new user logs into their AVD session or Windows 365 Cloud PC,

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RDP Multipath: Finally, Some Relief for Those Dodgy AVD Connections!

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G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick post today on something that’s been rolling out that I’m genuinely excited about, RDP Multipath for Azure Virtual Desktop. If you’re anything like me and have been dealing with users moaning about dropped connections and laggy sessions, then this might just be the solution we’ve all been waiting

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AVD App Deployments Made Easy with Nerdio ShellApps and PSADT

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Hello! In this post, we’ll explore how to integrate Nerdio ShellApps with the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) to streamline even the most complex application deployments. This powerful combination is particularly useful for handling challenging apps that require custom registry entries or files distributed across all user profiles. By pairing PSADT with Nerdio ShellApps, you

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Domain join account for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

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Hello there! Quick post today on how to create a domain join service account to add Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) session hosts to the domain. Prerequisites Create a service account, e.g. AVDDomainJoin@domain.net Permissions within Active Directory to delegate control to various OU’s Organisational structure for AVD Organisational Unit Structure for AVD Before we start, ensure

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Auto-subscribe Remote Desktop clients to Azure Virtual Desktop \ W365 via Microsoft Intune.

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Hi everyone! Today, I want to demonstrate how you leverage Microsoft Intune to auto-subscribe Remote Desktop clients into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and \ or Windows 365 environments, this approach will negate the need for end-users to manually subscribe and enhance the end-user experience when managing thin clients via Intune. Prerequisites Administrative rights within Microsoft

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Deploy WVD Client in System Context via MSIntune

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🆕📢 UpdateThe Remote Desktop Client covered in this post has been deprecated by Microsoft and is no longer the recommended way to connect to Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. Microsoft now recommend using the Windows App as the replacement, which provides a unified experience for connecting to AVD, Windows 365 and other remote desktops

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