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AVD on Azure Local Cost Help
We're beginning to run some of our environment on AVD hosted on Azure Local on prem. The solution is working very well for our needs. However, we're finding the costs to be prohibitively high for scaling to 100's of users with personal sessions. After some research the idea of hibernating VM's was suggested but it appears that is not an option on azure local based AVD deployments. What other ways do we have to shut down VM's when they're idle? We're hoping to not lose the users session state (Hibernate) but I'm running out of ideas to get that goal. Our users are logged in between 6-10 hours a day 5 days a week, so paying for constant run time on the VMs is a lot of cost that isn't required. Thanks for any feedback!
AVD with FSLogix - profiles not loading
Setup AVD with FSLogix several months back and profiles had been loading fine. About a month ago, profiles stopped loading and the logs show "Account restrictions are preventing this user from signing in. For example: blank passwords aren't allowed, sign-in times are limited, or a policy restriction has been enforced." This is in regards to connecting to the profile share path. If I manually try to go to that path, I receive the same error. The accounts do have a password, so it shouldn't be anything to do with a blank password. There are no sign-in time restrictions enforced on these accounts. What's left is a "policy restriction", which is kind of vague. Things I've tried: update to latest FSLogix verify permissions on profile storage enabled these in local policy: Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options ‘Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only‘ = disabled Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Credentials Delegation ‘Restrict delegation of credentials to remote servers‘ = disabled I have a ticket open with MS support for 3 weeks now, but thus far they've been completely useless.duplicate fslogix profile issue
There are two profile for few users one is starting with sid_username and another with username_sid for pooled azure virtual desktop. We want all user profile having naming convention username_sid for all users. Below are the settings configured: - -Swap directory name components is enabled -flipflopprofiledirectory Name is set to 1 Any recommendation will be helpful.What to do then Microsoft website for downloading AVD Agent Bootloader is down?
Today, query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com website is down, which means that then deploying AVD session hosts to hostpool with Bicep and custom extension, my download and install script will fail because it can not reach the website URL: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RWrxrH It says 502 bad gateway. I have tried to search the internet for an alternative URL where the AVD Agent Bootloader can be downloaded from, but have not come across any - only for the RDAgent installer.
Entra ID credentials in Azure Virtual Desktop
Hello, When Entra ID users want to access their passwords in Chrome/Edge they get a Windows security prompt asking for their credentials. When they enter their Entra ID username and password, they get the notification that these are wrong. To test i tried to run a program as a specific Entra ID user and I get the same issue. What do Entra ID users enter for those login prompts?Microsoft Print to PDF not working, nor any third-party PDF printer
Microsoft Print to PDF or any other third-party Print to PDF printers are not working for us. It looks like this is related to a bug in one of the latest security updates for Windows. Have anybody found a solution or workaround? Thanks!
Upgrade Windows 10 to 11
What is the best approach to upgrade Windows 10 Host Pools to Windows 11 Multisession? Users rely on Teams, Office, OneDrive, Printers, etc. I’ve heard reports that upgrading can cause issues with user profiles and that the recommended approach is to "start from scratch." Does anyone have any reference documentation or experiences they can share?
Sending notifications with Azure Virtual Desktop Auto-Shutdown
We have several Virtual Desktops that are used during business hours. I know I can use the auto-shutdown feature to shut the VM down at a scheduled time at night to save costs. What I would like to do is notify the logged-on users (we use personal and pooled host pools) that their VM will be shut down in fifteen or thirty minutes and give them the chance to extend by an hour in case they are working late. I saw a webhook by fortytwoservices called avd-shutdown on github that may do what I want, but the documentation on implementing it is a bit unclear to me. Is there a solution, native or add on that would send notifications like this for me? Thanks, Eric.,Session host shows need assistance
I have deployed new session host recently and for few of them it shows need assistance as health state. On those session hosts all agents are there except the Geneva one is missing but when i try to install the same agent from the path C:\program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft RD Agent getting error. All the Microsoft endpoints are accessible. How to fix this one. azure virtual desktop
