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Jamesatighe
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Re: Background blur in GA on Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Hi, I understand this but they commented under the main post about enabling it in AVD so it’s a bit of a moot point. They even ignored Yun-Liu’s comment that is was supported. It 100% works on AVD team with media optimization. I guessing they will remove (or update the main background effect doc page at some point)3.7KViews0likes1CommentRe: Background blur in GA on Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Hi, Not really sure what you mean? This feature is for AVD clients. What are you talking about disabling media optimisation to allow background blur? In order to properly use Teams on AVD you have to have media optimisation. This latest update enables multi-window support and also the background effects. I think you are really over complicating this. James3.7KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Background blur in GA on Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Yun_Liu this is now working for me so the fix must have rolled out. Brilliant to finally have this feature in AVD. Caused a lot of issues with our user base that the feature was missing. Also, the multi-window support is another great plus!3.9KViews0likes8CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
This is interesting to read. So it is clearly an issue with the MSDRC process somehow not releasing the audio channel. Be interesting to see what MS come back with as seems to be an issue with anything using audio connections in this way.8.6KViews0likes1CommentRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
ahewitt BigHand themselves said that they have reported to Microsoft an issue with the BigHand audio channel not reconnecting. They stated that "Although the BigHand audio channel will work as expected during the first logon of the day, if the Azure Remote Desktop session is later terminated or disconnected, the audio channel will fail to automatically initialise when a subsequent connection is established" It is 100% possible this has already been fixed in the recent Remote Desktop Client updates so you may not see it anymore. They gave a workaround to basically kill all the msrdc.exe processes on the local machine, then restart the BigHand client if it is still running to start a new virtual channel for your local recording and playback. I am not actually sure if this error occurs for many people. I would imagine one of your users would have seen this by now. . . James8.8KViews0likes4CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
otde5000 I actually got a correct answer from BigHand about this now! They have stated the terminal services plugin and components will work in WVD, but there is a known issue with the BigHand audio channel with disconnected sessions. They gave a workaround to this if it does occur. I then pressed them on whether WVD is supported or not and got this back "Unfortunately it is not fully supported currently and won’t be until Microsoft fix and update the current limitations referred to the below. Here should you have any further questions." So it WILL work but will not be supported is how I read that. So if we went live there would have to be severe caveats! James8.9KViews0likes7CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
GrahamCross definitely, I 100% agree with that. My statement was a "why is it not supported" rather than use it anyway. We are only looking at a POC at the moment, but ultimately if it is not actually supported then it can't really be rolled into production, which is a shame. So it seems a full RDS or Citrix environment would be needed. Which is at least double the price and requires so much more infrastructure Hopefully Big Hand will add support for WVD in the future. James8.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
To be fair there is no real reason it shouldn’t be supported. The WVD session hosts are just RDS under the hood. And Big Hand provide terminal services plugin so there shouldn’t be an issue. We had mixed messages from Big Hand so I would recommend you just ask for the Terminal Services plug-in and don’t necessarily mention WVD as I don’t think they actually know much about it.9KViews0likes11CommentsRe: [Feedback Requested] - Changes to the subscription logic for the Windows Desktop client (MSRDC)
Hi David, Maybe I misunderstood. I thought the change was to make the client pick up both Spring 2020 and Fall 2019 without having to subscribe twice? I have Multiple HostPools in both Spring and Fall for my user. When subscribing I only see the Spring resources and have to subscribe again to see the fall. This was exactly how it worked for me before this version. Kind Regards James5.2KViews0likes1CommentRe: Manage user application group assignments through REST API
Have you got a link to the Github? I am not sure if you can get this information at present and I can't find any official documentation for the new Spring 2020 Arm based platform. The only info I could find was this link: https://www.microsoft365.nl/2020/05/04/wvd-windows-virtual-desktop-rest-api/ which explains a few of the new REST calls but not specifically users. Also, the Spring 2020 update uses Azure Role Assignments to define user rights over the application groups. So I am not sure if you would need to check Role Assignments scoped to the Application Group?1.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Assign users to RemoteApp group by PowerShell
Unfortunately this doesn’t answer the OPs question. The new Az.DesktopVirtualization PowerShell module includes a lot of commands but does not seem to include a direct replacement for the Add-RdsAppGroupUser which is what he asks for. This is because assignment of users to Application groups in Spring 2020 is done via Azure Role Definitions. Microsoft example of this is as below: New-AzRoleAssignment -SignInName <userupn> -RoleDefinitionName "Desktop Virtualization User" -ResourceName <appgroupname> -ResourceGroupName <resourcegroupname> -ResourceType 'Microsoft.DesktopVirtualization/applicationGroups' I believe that this example of adding a user to the Desktop Application group. I will try this myself to test. James4.5KViews0likes3CommentsRe: MSIX App Attach Group Policy Issues
I answered this myself in the end. Was due to permissions as I had the VHDs hosted on Azure File Share so the Gpsvc couldn’t mount them. I moved them to a local share on my file server and working perfectly. Would be nice to know if I could get it to work off the Azure File Share but I’m unsure how to get it working James2.9KViews0likes2CommentsMSIX App Attach Group Policy Issues
Hi, I’ve been testing out MSIX App Attach on the new 2004 build of Windows 10 Multi-User and works fine running the staging, register, deregister and destaging scripts manually. I am having issues getting them to run via GPO. Any possible combination I use the Stage script fails to run. I believe it is permission based and the Mount-VHD command is failing. If I run the stage script manually the register and others work fine via GPO I’ve also tried the combined script below https://blog.itprocloud.de/Automatic-MSIX-app-attach-scripts/ and still the Startup script doesn’t run. As per the article I have granted the Gpsvc permission to mount the VHD. Anyone have any ideas? JamesSolved2.9KViews0likes4CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
Yeah the RemoteFX USB redirection works fine like normal for audio so all good with that 🙂 You have confirmed that it is supported (which is what I was questioning) and that it great. I believe that Big Hans Hub is installed. I will check whether the plugin has been obtained and installed. I was informed that Big Hand didn’t support WVD not sure the source of that information hence why I was checking. Thanks for confirming though.10KViews0likes15CommentsRe: (WVD) Windows Virtual Desktop USB Redirection Full
Exactly the same as yours but Desktop session. Using Windows 10 Enterprise for Virtual Desktop (1903) Had some issues with the microphone but sorted that so the USB redirection is working. That was obviously stopping it being used. I am just curious over whether you have had issues with the foot pedal? And if Big Hand specifically said it wasn’t supported? I suppose if Multi-User isn’t then we could deploy Server.10KViews0likes17Comments
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