Update your Kerberos configuration with Azure Virtual Desktop (RC4)
Microsoft released that the Kerberos protocol will be hardened by an update coming in April to June 2026 to increase the security.
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I tested Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteAppV2
This blog post explains how to get started with Remote App V2 in Azure Virtual Desktop, and I will explain on what area’s this new version is better and what area’s still needs to improve.
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Azure Virtual Desktop V6/V7 VMs imaging
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.
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Remove Microsoft Print to PDF and OneNote printers script
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.
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Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
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 key in hosts’ registry like we did in my earlier AVD full Entra blog.
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FSLogix and maximum Azure Files security
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 account will not work anymore by default. In this guide I will show how I got this to work in combination with the newest Kerberos Authentication.
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Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Properties
In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop. will be talking about local PC’s and remote PC’s alot, where the remote PC is of course the Azure Virtual Desktop host and the local PC is the device you can physically touch.
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Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Azure Compute Gallery is a great service in Azure to store, capture and maintain your VM images. This post explains how to work through these steps and how this works.
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Customize Office apps installation for Azure Virtual Desktop
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 because multiple users need the apps. In this guide I will show you how to customize the installation of Office apps, primarily for Virtual Desktops, but can be used on any Windows machine.
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Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
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 will write down the most easiest way with the least effort of performing this action.
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Clean up old FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps
Today I have a Logic App for you to clean up orphaned FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps. As you know, storage in Azure costs money and we want to store as minimum as possible. But in most companies, old and orphaned FSLogix profiles will be forgotten to clean up so we have automate this. In this guide I will show you how you can clean up FSLogix profiles from Azure Files by looking up the last modified date, and deleting the files after they exceeded the number of days.
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Using FSLogix App Masking to hide applications on Virtual Desktops
In this blog post I will explain and demonstrate the pro’s and features of using FSLogix App Masking for Azure Virtual Desktop. This is a feature of FSLogix where we can hide certain applications and other components from our users while still having to maintain a single golden image. In this guide I will give some extra explaination about this feature, how it works, how to implement it in a production environment and how to create those rules based on the logged on user. I hope to give a “one-post-fits-all” experience.
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Use Ephemeral OS Disks in Azure
In Azure, you have the option to create Ephemeral OS disks for your machine. This sounds really cool but what is it actually, what pro’s and cons are coming with them, what is the pricing and how do we use them? I will do my best to explain everything in this guide.
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RDP Multipath - What is it and how to configure?
RDP Multipath is a new protocol for Azure Virtual Desktop and ensures the user always has a good and stable connection. It improves the connection by connecting via the best path and reduces random disconnections between session hosts and users.
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Pooled Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD cloud users only
Since the beginning of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is mandatory to run it with an Active Directory. This because of the FSLogix dependency relying on SMB and Kerberos authentication, something which is not available in Entra ID at this time.
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Test Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity and RTT
Sometimes, we need to check some basic connectivity from end user devices to a service like Azure Virtual Desktop. Most networks have a custom firewall equipped where we must allow certain traffic to flow to the internet. Previously there was a tool from Microsoft available, the Azure Virtual Desktop experience estimator, but they have discontinued that. This tested the Round Trip Time (RTT) to a specific Azure region and is a calculation of what the end user will get.
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Windows Search optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop
When using Windows 11 Multi Session images on Azure for Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft has disabled some features and changed the behaviour to optimize it for using with multiple users. One of the things that has been “lazy loading” is Windows Search. The first time after logging in it will be much slower than normal. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th time, it will be much faster.
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Monitor Azure Virtual Deskop logon speed
Sometimes we want to know why a Azure Virtual Desktop logon took longer than expected. Several actions happen at Windows logon, like FSLogix profile mounting, Group Policy processing and preparing the desktop. I found a script online that helps us monitor the sign-ins and logons and basically tells us why it took 2 minutes and what parts took a specific amount of seconds.
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Storage Account performance and pricing for Azure Virtual Desktop
Choosing the right performance tier of Azure Storage Accounts can be very complex. How much size and performance do we need? How many users will login to Azure Virtual Desktop and how many profile size do we want to assign them?
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Solved - FSLogix release 25.02 breaks Recycle Bin - Azure Virtual Desktop
I tested the new FSLogix 25.02 version and a very annoying bug appeared. “The Recycle Bin on C:\ is corrupted.”
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Stop OneNote printer from being default printer in AVD
If you have the Office Apps installed with OneNote included, sometimes the OneNote printer will be installed as default. This post explains how to solve this problem.
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Automatic AVD/W365 Feed discovery for mobile apps
When using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows (W365), we sometimes use the mobile apps for Android, MacOS or iOS. But those apps rely on filling in a Feed Discovery URL instead of simply a Email address and a password.
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Solved - Windows Store applications on FSLogix/Azure Virtual Desktop
By default, Microsoft Store applications are not supported when using FSLogix. The root cause is that Windows stores some metadata that is not roamed in the profile folder and cleared at every new logon. You will encounter this behaviour in every environment where you use FSLogix. Now a long time I told our end users that there unfortunately is no solution possible to download apps and make them persistent across Azure Virtual Desktop sessions but someday I found a workaround to this problem. I will explain this at this page.
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Optimize Windows 11 for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
When using Windows 11 on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), without the right optimization, the experience can be a little laggy, stuttery and slow. Especially when you came from Windows 10 with the same settings. You definitely want to optimize some settings. After that we will look into the official Virtual Desktop Optimization Toolkit (VDOT).