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Re: Updates to WVD Scaling tool
Roop_Kiran_Chevuri If you´re searching for a GUI to update existing schedules and recreate it quickly, I can recommend the Community AutoScaling tool. It applies Microsoft's recommendations from the article in just a few steps of user interactions. A lot of companies I know are using it already, maybe you can check it out here: https://wvdlogix.net/wvdlogix-autoscaling-tool If you have questions, feel free to come back to me. Best regards, Patrick2.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Migration from Fall 2019 to Spring update 2020
Deofex , actually there are already tools available which help you migrating your Host Pools to the WVD ARM based version. Have you ever tried Marcel Meurers WVDAdmin? It offers a lot of options to help you manage WVD and we have implemented it in nearly every deployment so far. You can find the tool and documentation on his page here: https://blog.itprocloud.de/Windows-Virtual-Desktop-Admin/ Have a nice weekend! Patrick11KViews0likes0CommentsFree WVD Community AutoScaling Tool released
Hello everyone, this week I´ve released the second version of the WVD AutoScaling Tool. This tool has been developed to help non-familiar PowerShell users getting started with Session Host scaling. The tool itself relies completely on Microsofts documentation and helps with a graphical user interface to configure scaling in less than 15 minutes! And the best thing - it´s for FREE! These features are included: Graphical User Interface (Modern Windows UI) Secure connection to Azure (including MFA capabilities for your secure enrolment) Provides all the steps mentioned in the official Microsoft documentation in just one single tool Less than 2 minutes of user/admin interaction Automated creation of the Automation Account Automated creation of the required Run-As Account Automated creation of the Logic App with all parameters WebHook URI will be detected automatically Your configuration will be saved in a file, if you need to quickly perform an update to your scaling, you don´t need to update the LogicApp from the Azure Portal / CLI Always up-to-date, when Microsoft updates the script Portable script / tool Please find the feature video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdhzcko6U34&feature=emb_logo As well as the download link and documentation here: https://wvdlogix.net/wvdlogix-autoscaling-tool Reach out to me if you need any support, or in case that you have some ideas to improve it! Looking forward hearing from you! Cheers, Patrick1.8KViews2likes1CommentRe: Win10 2004 not working with WVD? Unable to connect
Hi Raaert, thanks for raising your issue! Had the same today. I was able to solve it like this: 1. Navigate to your future Session Host that has been deployed and navigate to the install folder of the "Deploy Agent": C:\DeployAgent\RDInfraSxSStackInstall 2. Reinstall the SxSStackInstaller-181129002.msi 3. Restart the Session Host That should definitely solve your issue! If you need more help, please come back to me! Cheers, Patrick4.9KViews0likes2CommentsRe: How to install Teams in WVD?
Hi MahmoudAtallah, regarding the Teams installation on WVD, there are maybe more topics as well to consider. I´ve wrote everything down in detail, especially how to handle with Microsoft Teams if the user profile is growing at the first start up to 4GB (while using FSLogix User Profiles) and so on. The complete guide can be read on my blog, I just released the article: https://wvdlogix.net/complete-guide-teams-on-wvd Thanks a lot! Cheers, Patrick22KViews1like1CommentRe: Is possible to place a shared folder as remote app?
Hi IngFabianCampo, actually you can reference the explorer.exe and point it with parameters to the share you prefer. Additionally I´ve heard from one of my clients that they referenced a Powershell script with the icon of the explorer.exe to open a specific file location on the network. Maybe you can try this solution.. Let me know if I can support you furthermore! Cheers, Patrick5KViews1like0CommentsRe: Windows Virtual Desktop Health Check - New statuses for Get-RDSSessionHost
Hi mayur_nalawade , it´s already possible with the new ARM based version. I´ve documented it in detail how it works. Please check out my two part blog series about WVD automation. https://wvdlogix.net/windows-virtual-desktop-host-pool-automation https://wvdlogix.net/windows-virtual-desktop-host-pool-automation-2 Feel free to reach out to me for questions! Cheers, Patrick14KViews1like1CommentRe: Spring Update 2020 is in Public Preview!
moclouds I don´t think that this is a WVD issue. Did you check your Desktop application group to see if your user / security group is added successfully? On the other hand, are there any kind of hardening GPOs enabled which prevent the access via RDP? Thanks! Patrick4.4KViews0likes4CommentsRe: Spring 2020 Update - Registration Keys in Host pools
Hi Cláudio Rodrigues, I´ve experienced the same! As a work around here is my tip for you to not be blocked: 1. Log into your Azure tenant via Admin credentials Connect-AzAccount 2. Create the Registration Info and set expiration to 2 hours (you can adapt this to your needs also) New-AzWvdRegistrationInfo -ResourceGroupName %RGyourHostPool% -HostPoolName %HostPoolName% -ExpirationTime $((get-date).ToUniversalTime().AddHours(2).ToString('yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffZ'))} 3. Retreive the Registration Key Get-AzWvdRegistrationInfo -ResourceGroupName %RGyourHostPool% -HostPoolName %HostPoolName% This should unblock your issue! Cheers, Patrick4.6KViews0likes1CommentRe: Spring Update 2020 is in Public Preview!
Hi Cookiekaikai! thanks for coming back to me. The only reliable way I experienced is to configure the audio capturing and camera redirect via PowerShell even in the new Spring Release. This is how you can achieve best results: 1. Connect to your Azure Account with Admin rights: Connect-AzAccount 2. Afterwards check your current RDPProperties of your HostPool. e.g. Get-AzWvdHostPool -ResourceGroupName %YourRG% -Name %YourHostPool% | fl Name,CustomRDPProperty 3. Now define your RDP Properties into a variable, check the settings that are validated by me: $rdpproperties = "audiocapturemode:i:1;capture:i:1;audiomode:i:0;camerastoredirect:s:*;redirectclipboard:i:1" For more RDP settings check out the Microsoft Doc here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/rdp-files?context=/azure/virtual-desktop/context/context 4. Apply the settings to your HostPool Update-AzWvdHostPool -ResourceGroupName %YourRG% -Name %YourHostPool% -CustomRDPProperty $rdpproperties 5. In your Remote Desktop app, click on the three points beside your HostPool and check for update. 6. Connect to your Desktop and see it works! If I can help you furthermore, please come back to me! Cheers, Patrick7KViews0likes1CommentRe: Spring Update 2020 is in Public Preview!
Hi JeremyWallace , good point which I´ve also addressed. For this reason I created an article showing how to perform scaling! https://wvdlogix.net/windows-virtual-desktop-host-pool-automation The second article going much more in detail will be released this week. Hope this helps you, please leave me a comment if you want to know more. Cheers, Patrick7.3KViews1like4CommentsRe: Spring Update 2020 is in Public Preview!
Hi bhushangawale PavithraT , you can check out the WVD Admin GUI from Marcel Meurer, it already supports an easy way to securely migrate to the ARM based Management UI! Here you can find how to get going: https://wvdlogix.net/migrate-wvd-host-pool-from-fall-to-spring-with-marcel-meurers-wvdadmin Let me know if this helps! Cheers, Patrick8KViews2likes1CommentRe: Spring Update 2020 is in Public Preview!
Hi acalvert! I guess this already helps you to perform the migration with the WVD Admin GUI: https://wvdlogix.net/migrate-wvd-host-pool-from-fall-to-spring-with-marcel-meurers-wvdadmin I hope this helps! It was very useful to me! Cheers, Patrick8KViews1like1CommentRe: Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment - Fails at doaminjoin
Hi jayantabanerjee, to resolve this issue, you should check your WVD tenant permissions for the user mentioned for deploying! Additionally you can get this error message, if the user you mentioned for the WVD deployment has enabled MFA or if conditional access policies are enabled (everything should be disabled). I highly recommend you to use a Service Principal for the deployment. This will help you to resolve this issue: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/create-service-principal-role-powershell1.8KViews0likes0CommentsRe: WVD Windows 10 multi session - restrict user to single folder to download/store files
Hi srasp! actually there are multiple ways to achieve what you like. The first thing that comes into my mind is to use Ephemeral OS disks for your Session Hosts. These give you the advantage that any changes made the the OS / data disks will be reset when the machine gets deallocated and restarted (comparable to non-persistent VDI).(More Info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyXx5Er9jYo&list=PL-V4YVm6AmwXGvQ46W8mHkpvm6S5IIitK&index=19) To provide your users a space where they can work you could use OneDrive or you create a network share / drive where your users can work exclusively, if necessary this can also be purged automatically via PS script in the task scheduler of the server / machine. For the purging you could use the following command to delete files, that haven´t been modified since 30 days (the number of days can be changed of course): ForFiles /p "C:\path\to\folder" /s /d -30 /c "cmd /c del /q @file" Hope this helps.5.9KViews1like1Comment
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