Windows Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop – A new client has been published fixing a CVE

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  A new Azure Virtual Desktop client (1.2.4159) has been published fixing a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) impacting the Remote Desktop Protocol Client.   This CVE is detailed here https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28267.   In addition, this new version also fixes few issues like: Fixed a bug where users aren’t able to update the client if the …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – New client available from the Microsoft Store (preview)

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your resources using either a web browser, the AVD Remote Desktop client on Windows or Mac or mobile on iOS/Android. Well, now you have a new client option through the Microsoft Store. This new client has the same features and capabilities than the …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use URI schemes to connect to AVD (preview)

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD …

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AVD – New web client experience in preview

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop you know you can access your remote applications and/or remote desktop using either the AVD remote desktop client or the web interface (https://client.wvd.microsoft.com/arm/webclient/). Well, the web interface is getting updated and is now available in preview NOTE the new experience will become ultimately the default one Administrators have nothing …

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AVD – A new version of the AVD remote desktop client is available

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  If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you now you can access your remote applications and/or desktop using either a web browser or the remote desktop client.   Well, a new version of the client (1.2.3918) is now available: x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 x32 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139456 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139370 This version is mainly providing fixes and improvements, so now …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable watermarking (preview)

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With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as …

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Teams – Window sharing is now generally available in Azure Virtual Desktop

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  The Microsoft Teams product group has been working hard to deliver seamless user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for Teams users to provide similar experience on both physical and virtualized (aka AVD) session.   The capability to share your windows in Azure Virtual Desktop session while using Teams is now generally available. That …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Support for confidential virtual machine is available in preview

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Earlier in July 2022, Microsoft has made generally available a new compute series – Azure confidential virtual machine (DCasv5 and ECasv5) (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview/). Today, this Azure confidential virtual machine series is made available in preview for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Support for confidential virtual machine is available for Windows 11 22H2 hosts; support …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now monitor your AVD at scale (preview)

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If you use the Azure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that you can monitor your AVD host pool health (insights). Well, until know if you had multiple host pools – which is the case if you have a mix of pooled and personal host – you could not have insights …

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OneDrive – OneDrive client will be blocked on VM running unsupported FSLogix

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  Starting January 2023 – expected to be completed by February 2023, OneDrive sync client will be blocked on virtual machine running FSLogix older than 2009 Hot Fix 1.   If after this hard block has been deployed, you are running OneDrive on a virtual machine with an unsupported FSLogix, an error message will be …

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