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
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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.
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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
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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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I recently ran into an issue with a client when trying to capture a new AVD image. When trying to sysprep the VM before image capture, we were receiving the below error – “Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows Installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log” The above error on its own is
You may or may not know that there is a specific way to install Teams when using a VDI solution. AVD is what I end up working with in almost every situation, so this article is catered to AVD. However, this solution can be used for any VDI solution that uses the Teams machine-wide installer.
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Here’s a quick tip if you’re using Microsoft Entra Connect (Azure AD Connect) to sync your user identities, and you need to enforce a password change for users at the next logon. This can be useful if your user identities are all synced from AD but you have a mixed bag of devices with PCs
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