Windows 10: Azure Update Manager availability for AVD Windows 10 multi-session hosts

Hi,I'm a bit confused about the new Azure Update Manager availability.According to the support matrix / documentation, Windows clients, including multi-session is not supported.Azure Update Manager support matrix Microsoft LearnAzure Automation Update Management Supported Clients Microsoft LearnOperating systemNotesWindows clientClient operating systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 10 aren't supported.For Azure Virtual Desktop, the recommended method to manage updates is Microsoft Configuration Manager for Windows 10 client machine patch management.But in practice, all AVD Win

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Migration

Move your VMs to Azure Virtual desktop:

• Run the assessment tool against its on-premises RDS infrastructure to establish the scale of the Azure Virtual Desktop deployment in Azure.
  
• Migrate to Azure Virtual Desktop via either Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session or persistent virtual machines.
  
• Optimize the Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session by scaling up and down as needed to manage costs.
  
• Virtualize applications and assign users as needed to continue to secure and manage the Azure Virtual Desktop environment.
  

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Increasing virtual memory on set of AVD sessions

Hello everyone

I have a customer for whom we have provisioned 80-90 numbers of Azure Virtual desktops in Azure pooled environment.

After we put it in production, users faced performance issue with slowness of system and overrun of application based buffer size. When I drilled down into some logs, i saw this is somehow connected with virtual memory.

I checked the virtual memory of the machines and saw for 8GB RAM is set with 1GB of virtual memory (against the suggested to set it atleast of 1.5 times of the memory of machines) ie. 1024x8x1.5 = 12,288 MB.

Now i want to set this new virtual memory sizing on all the 90 machines. Can I somehow automate this using azure or powershell so that this can be resized to all the AVD machines in the Host pool. Please advise on this

Thank you

Nik

 

Azure Virtual Desktop

What is Azure Virtual Desktop?

AVD provides a desktop and application virtualization platform on top of the Azure public cloud. That last part is crucial, as it highlights a potential departure on Microsoft’s behalf from offering virtualization services exclusively to Windows users.



With WVD, users could access Windows 10 applications and desktops from virtually anywhere via Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS devices, as well as HTML5 web browsers. Soon, though, AVD will support more operating systems, including Linux.



By leveraging the public cloud infrastructure, Azure Virtual Desktop can offer increased scalability, enhanced collaboration, and less expensive licensing fees than WVD. Further, AVD is a Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering, which means that companies don’t need to support the underlying layers of technology. All they have to do is set it up and administer it.

1. Enhancements to Windows 10 Enterprise Multi-Session VMs

Remote Desktop Session Hosts allow several users to access a single virtual desktop on Windows 10 at the same time so that users can continue to use familiar Windows 10 applications and desktops with their existing per-user Microsoft 365 licenses.



With AVD, you can manage both virtual and physical desktops with Microsoft Endpoint Manager in the same way that you can with shared physical devices.

2. Automatic enrollment of AVD Virtual Machines

In the past, Microsoft created WVD QuickStart to enable users to deploy the virtual desktop service in as little as 1-2 hours for a basic setup, and as little as a few hours from start to finish – all without digging through Microsoft documentation or spending weeks (even months) testing the service.



Despite this, Microsoft did not consider WVD QuickStart one of its official products. But now WVD QuickStart has been formally integrated into the Azure portal with full support, and has been renamed simply ‘QuickStart’.

3. Azure Virtual Desktop VMs join Azure Active Directory

Password and username-related cyber attacks increased by 450% in 2020. ForgeRocks’ 2021 Consumer Identity Breach Report also revealed that phishing and ransomware attacks followed at 25% and 17%, respectively.



Though these findings focus on consumers, they’re notable for enterprise organizations as well, as many employees use their personal devices to log in to their company’s portals. Hackers may use compromised personal devices to gain access to your company’s sensitive data, especially in the healthcare, financial, and technology sectors.

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