Azure Virtual Desktop
All pages referring or tutorials for Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Thursday, October 09, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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8 minute read
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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6 minute read
Requirements Around 30 minutes of your time A Microsoft 365 tenant with Global Administrator, Security Administrator or Office Apps Admin permissions A Windows machine to test the installation Basic knowledge of Virtual Desktops and Office Apps What …
Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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5 minute read
Requirements Around 30 minutes of your time An Azure subscription with the storage account An Active Directory (AD DS) to join the storage account with (on-premises/Azure) Basic knowledge of Active Directory and PowerShell Step 1: Prepare the Active …
Configure Start VM on Connect for Azure Virtual Desktop
Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
In short, the process works as follows: The user initiates a connection to the host pool from Windows App. The user completes authentication, which may include multiple authentication factors. Azure Virtual Desktop checks whether a suitable session …
Clean up old FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps
Thursday, August 07, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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8 minute read
I will give you a step-by-step guide to build this Logic App yourself. Make sure you have backups ofenabled on your storage account so when a file is deleted but you need it for some reason after some time, you can restore it from a monthly or yearly …
Using FSLogix App Masking to hide applications on Virtual Desktops
Thursday, July 31, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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9 minute read
Requirements Around 45 minutes of your time An environment with Active Directory and separate client machine with FSLogix pre-installed Basic knowledge of Active Directory Basic knowledge of Windows and FSLogix What is FSLogix App Masking? FSLogix …
Sysprep script for Azure Virtual Desktop images
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
One of the most common Sysprep errors is: Failure Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. And/or this one in the setupact.log file: Failure Package …
RDP Multipath - What is it and how to configure?
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
Let’s take a look what RDP Multipath adds to your connections: Green: The normal paths of connecting with RDP/Shortpath Purple: The paths added by RDP Multipath This adds extra ways of connecting session hosts to the end device, selects the …
Pooled Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD cloud users only
Thursday, June 12, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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11 minute read
This deployment option is superseded by the more easy and secure Entra Kerberos option, check out the updated deployment guide here: https://justinverstijnen.nl/azure-virtual-desktop-fslogix-and-native-kerberos-authentication/ Since the beginning of …
Configure Scaling Plans in Azure Virtual Desktop
Saturday, June 07, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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5 minute read
Step 1: Create scaling plan Open the Azure Portal at https://portal.azure.com and go to “Azure Virtual Desktop”, then to “Scaling plans”. At this screen, click “+ Create”. This will open the Scaling Plan wizard. …