Announcing general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop Custom Image Templates
We are excited to announce that Azure Virtual Desktop Custom image templates is now general available. This feature allows you to build a custom “golden image” by the Azure Virtual Desktop management user interface. Leverage build-in scripts or add your own ones.Announcing the General Availability of Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop
We are excited to announce that Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available! With this feature, users can securely access their session hosts and workspaces using a private endpoint within their virtual network. Private Link enhances the security of your data by ensuring it stays within a trusted and secure private network environment. What is Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop? Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop allows users to establish secure connections to remote resources by using private endpoints. With Private Link, the traffic between your virtual network and the Azure Virtual Desktop service is routed through the highly secure Microsoft "backbone" network. This eliminates the need to expose your service to the public internet, thereby enhancing the overall security of your infrastructure. By keeping the traffic within this protected network, Private Link adds an extra layer of security for your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Getting started Excited to get started with Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop? Learn more about this feature and its benefits by visiting here. Get started on setting up Private Link in your environment today by visiting here and enjoy the enhanced security and peace of mind that Private Link brings to your Azure Virtual Desktop experience. Update: As of July 28, 2023, Private Link for Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available in Azure Government.Windows 11 preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop has become a popular cloud VDI platform to run desktops and apps in the cloud and deliver a full Windows experience to users virtually anywhere. Organizations today use it with Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Server … and now we are pleased to offer Windows 11 on Azure Virtual Desktop. Windows 11 is the operating system for hybrid work and learning. It delivers a more streamlined, more personal computing experience that doesn’t compromise performance, security, and manageability. For Windows 11, Azure Virtual Desktop still provides exclusive support for multi-session, an important option that helps you optimize costs by running multiple users on a single Azure virtual machine. You can use Trusted Launch (available in preview) to enable TPM 2.0 and secure boot as part of the VM configuration to take full advantage of the security capabilities in Windows 11. The user experience with Azure Virtual Desktop is intended to be identical to the local PC experience. Some higher-end graphics effects, such as transparencies, animations, and rounded corners, may require using Azure Virtual Desktop with an Azure VM with the right GPU support. Getting started Azure Virtual Desktop is a great place for customers to set up their validation environment to try out this new operating system. Enterprise and Education customers can use Azure Virtual Desktop to test Windows 11 now that it is available in the Windows Insider Program. You can visit the Azure Marketplace to choose from three Windows 11 images: Windows 11 Enterprise (Preview) Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session (Preview) Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session + Microsoft 365 Apps (Preview) Please join the Azure Virtual Desktop Tech Community to share your feedback and compare notes with other users.Azure Virtual Desktop Watermarking Support
Watermarking in Azure Virtual Desktop, alongside screen capture protection, helps prevent sensitive information from being captured on client endpoints. With watermarking enabled, QR code watermarks appear as part of remote desktops as an added security preventative measure.
