A feature that came with the latest Windows Update is the “News and Interests” taskbar widget for Windows 10. A feature that might make sense for the user experience on stationary PC’s is definetly something that can confuse users in multi-session environments – like such on Azure Virtual Desktop. How you can easily turn this feature off is what we’re covering in today’s blog post!…
Welcome to this very quick blog post about a topic that you may have experienced while enabling customers to use Azure Virtual Desktop. You installed the latest version on a computer and everything works fine, until the Remote Desktop app starts to crash frequently, or connections aren’t possible anymore. In some rare cases, you can’t even click anywhere. For that reason, you can reset the…
This announcement of Eva Seydl, Program Manager at Microsoft, made my week! Start VM on Connect, a feature well known to most of the WVD rockstars as a solution to start virtual machines in Personal Host Pool scenarios is now also available for Pooled Host Pools. In this blog you will learn, how to configure Start VM on Connect for Pooled Host Pools, Personal Host…
On 16.04.2021 Tom Hickling (@tomhickling) announced via LinkedIn, that Microsoft released a tool to validate that Session Hosts can reach the required services to ensure full connectivity to the WVD services. The tool is built to present you the URLs which are accessible or not, if that’s the case. However there are a few things you need to keep in mind, before running the tool….
Hi everyone, it’s been a while since my last blog post and I think it’s getting time for a very important topic for your end users – BROWSING! Regardless of which browser you’re using, we know that the correct configuration, paired with optimization and security is key to let users work smoothly. But why do we need to optimize the browsing experience? I’m sure you…
First of all a very huge thanks to Christiaan Brinkhoff and Dean Cefola for having me at this awesome event, happened today, the 11.12.2020 in an XXL format! Microsoft Meets Community: Windows Virtual Desktop. It was an absolute honour to speak for 2000 registered users from the community! As promised I will share with you my guide along the session. To navigate faster, please use…
Last week I faced an issue at the client site while getting a Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Activation notification after the user login. Table of contents Issue Video & Download Conclusion The user started a random Office app like Word and got represented by the sign-in screen: In the menu bar in the center top we can see Word [Non-Commercial Use] [Unlicensed Product] Office…
We’re reaching the end of the year and if I summarize what has happened, I can only say it was a stunnishing year, privately as well as from a technology point of view. I met a lot of people which I wouldn’t like to miss and was living the passion around Azure and WVD even more! As I’m already talking about the end of the…
Dear WVD Rockstars! we had already our 4th monthly meetup of the German WVD User Group and it was, like always, a pleasure to share content with you! This month, we had NetApp’s Mike Walsh (former Cloud Jumper) as guest speaker presenting the NetApp Virtual Desktop Solution. A management pane, which delviers a lot of value for WVD! You can find the recording here: Additionally,…
Last week I received a question from the communtiy, asking me if it’s possible to grant access to a specific application, installed on a Session Host of Host Pool A to users in a Host Pool B through Windows Virtual Desktop and I thought it could be a good topic for a new blog post! First of all, the possible setting and use case: Generally,…
