The most common AVD setup is a pooled configuration with FSLogix. This means that you have two or more session hosts and a group of many users who connect to those hosts. FSLogix handles the user profiles, so it doesn’t matter which session host the user connects to. Their profile is mounted to whichever host […]
Removing Orphaned Local User Profiles in Pooled AVD Environments Read More »
I recently had an issue with a customer who was trying to add additional AVD hosts to their host pool. The host deployments were showing as successful in Azure (like the screenshot below), properly joined to the domain, healthy, and running in Azure. The issue is that these hosts were not part of the host
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Intro If an organization is using AVD, there’s a very high likelihood they’re also using Teams. As most of you probably know, Teams went through a transformation around a year ago where a new Teams client was built and became GA. The original Teams application became known as “Classic Teams” and the newly build Teams
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If you configure an Azure environment with strict networking rules, like no or limited internet access, you may experience issues with Windows Activation on your VMs. This also extends to Win10/11 Pro & Ent for AVD and Windows 365 cloud PCs (if using vnet integration). Some of the screenshots below are what you may see
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This issue started out as a support ticket where many users were being asked to authenticate to M365 apps every time they signed into AVD. For context, this was a smaller environment with only a few Windows 11 multi-session hosts. The session hosts are also hybrid-joined and Intune enrolled. So, the first thing I usually
Intune Enrollment Error 0x80180005 on AVD multi-session host Read More »
While troubleshooting some client AVD issues, I came across something I had not seen before. There were many errors in the FSLogix event log showing that a volume had errors, and this was pointing to user VHDX profile disks. After taking a closer look, this was happening on around half of the user profile disks.
Repair all FSLogix Profiles using PowerShell (or any VHDX files) Read More »
If you work at an MSP and are you’re not fortunate enough to have a good cert tracking tool like ITGlue or Hudu, you’re probably on your own to track certificate expirations. After encountering too many times where out of nowhere, a client has iOS Intune enrollments start failing due to an expired MDM push
Automate Notifications for Intune iOS Cert/Token Expirations with one Script Read More »
If you need to migrate FSLogix profiles to a new storage account, Microsoft makes this very easy using the azcopy tool. You can also use Robocopy like we did back in the days of file server migrations, but azcopy is significantly faster. If you encounter an AVD environment that is using a transaction-optimized storage account
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