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Windows Virtual Desktop Announcements at Microsoft Ignite
We hope you are all enjoying the https://myignite.microsoft.com/home conference. Here are some announcements on Windows Virtual Desktop that you will be hearing during the event.
Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop - Provides a centralized view with all the monitoring telemetry and visualizations you need to debug and troubleshoot issues. We have received amazing feedback during the public preview and have made several updates to this capability including:
- A designated report page for your Azure Alerts
- A prioritized view of Windows Virtual Desktop agent errors and warnings in Host Diagnostics
- Consistent coloring and default health thresholds
- Export to Excel option across all relevant reports
- Accuracy and user experience improvements
Thank you for the support during the public preview. We expect to make Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop generally available in next few weeks, with additional updates in store. Learn more about https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/azure-monitor
In case you had missed, here’re some recent announcements we made leading up to Microsoft Ignite.
EU metadata storage now in public preview - We have a public preview of the Europe (EU) geography as a storage option for service metadata in Windows Virtual Desktop. Customers can choose between West or North Europe when they create their service objects. The service objects and metadata for the host pools will be stored in the Azure geography associated with each region. To learn more, read our blog post announcing the public preview
Windows Virtual Desktop Specialty certification - We announced a new Windows Virtual Desktop Specialty Certification for professionals planning, delivering, and managing virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Azure. The related Exam AZ-140: Configuring and operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure will be available soon in beta version.
Smartcard authentication – You can now use smartcard authentication (available in public preview) with the Windows client from outside the corporate network without requiring line-of-sight to the Domain Controller. Learn more about https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/authentication.
You can keep track of these and other news about Windows Virtual Desktop in our https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/whats-new.
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- One thing that has always occured to me as being a bit self-defeating about running these IM and collaboration tools on VDI - invariably for them to function 'properly' for video calling, you need to have the client app installed on your end-point... so why bother running it in the VDI at all when it will work fine locally?
I get that having things in one place is the ideal, but it always seems like ice-skating uphill. - Would be nice if Microsoft gave some indication when WVD will support Azure AD join for those who have AAD only environments - this is a real roadblock for numerous organizations who bought in to the cloud only realm. Or what about SSO for WVD if you don’t use AD-FS? That too would be pretty handy.
Ondrej_KrkoskaMicrosoft
Hi Quentin.
I recommend to follow Christian's news and events. https://www.christiaanbrinkhoff.com/ Support for AAD was mentioned in one of the previous events and should come in 2021. There are no committed dates, but it should come during the year.Quentin Gerlach it is extremely easy to Deploy and integrate AADDS for your session hosts and Azure Files enrolment. Additional cost, yes $100/month for the smallest SKU that will work for a several hundred users environment. SSO option with AD-connect was around for a few months now, also really easy to implement, have a look.
- Again, ease isn’t the problem. The problem is that one is in essence going backwards - going to the cloud only, and now embracing legacy methods of domain authentication. And as others have pointed out, this comes with some large caveats.
As for SSO for WVD, as far as I’m aware, this is only supported for AD-FS environments - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/35827/single-sign-on-with-windows-virtual-desktop-for-of.html If you have a MS doc link or something describing setup of SSO for WVD via PTA/PHS, please share - that would be a great help.
- This!
Kam_VedBrat How are there no updates for Teams VDI? I've had to stop my WVD deployment because Teams VDI doesn't work for meetings.
- I've not yet done a large implementation of Teams on WVD but understood from the media optimisation that it would work fine, what are the challenges that you face that make it unusable? Thanks 🙂
- The camera will randomly zoom in when you are in a meeting. You are lucky if that happens, as the camera usually freezes when another user joins the meeting. The only way to use the camera again in Teams is to log off windows or restart. 1:1 calls work perfectly.
- Actually there have been some updates to Teams for WVD - check out the link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/whats-new
- These did not fix my above issues.
- Can you elaborate on that. I'm starting a wvd poc in a few weeks
- The camera will randomly zoom in when you are in a meeting. You are lucky if that happens, as the camera usually freezes when another user joins the meeting. The only way to use the camera again in Teams is to log off windows or restart. 1:1 calls work perfectly.
