I was stuck on this for about 16 hours. This didn't answer my question, but it did answer others I was going to have. I figured it out thanks to you. Thank you for the great good video.
Another great video Jonathan, AVD is something I want to start offering to my Clients, so thanks very much. Your idea about doing a separate video on calculating pricing would be greatly appreciated, I often find the azure pricing calculator a challenge and am never actually sure if I trust it.
End of last year I found a video and I tried to implement this. Now , I found your video and this one is excellent, way better than the one I found last year. But, not just this video, all your videos are excellent. Thanks
Man, this was right on time!! I just had my supervisor ask me about a solution like this for some upcoming temp employees located across the US. I followed this exactly and it works perfectly! I’m going to be greedy and ask if you could do a video on configuring a thin client to connect automatically.
Jon Thank you immensely for simplifying such a complex subject matter with precision and clarity. Your videos are incredibly informative and straight to the point. Keep up the fantastic work!
A video so excellent I'm saving it. Truly well done. You have the knowledge but you can also teach! One thing I noticed on the Security Type (as of 8/27/24) is that choosing "Trusted launch virtual machines" DOES now auto-check the third "Integrity monitoring" box below. Thanks so much for this!
You added "all users" group rather than "AVD Users" to both assignment and Resource Group permissions. Othat than that it was a very sound video, great explaining and well paced!
Love the video - I would also welcome a video on Azure pricing, especially for things like AVD. Secondly, I'd like a better understanding of how we can pre-install software applications on the AVD so we can have everyone that logs into AVD already have access to everything required. It seems right now, we need to install many applications separately on each user's profile.
Love your channel Jonathan. I was missing Windows 365 in this video (especially the comparison), but I was happy to find your earlier Windows 365 video.
I recommend to configure sign in frequency in the conditional access policy for a prod environment, for anyone rolling this out to contractors using personal device as well
great video, thank you! We are starting to look into AVD instead of Citrix DaaS. Same ideas mostly, Citrix offers their layer of management that differs from AVD, but it's $$. If I can get a similar administrative experience then AVD might be for us when our Citrix sub expires!
Jonathan, Love this channel and appreciate your Azure expertise. One question: How does VDI differ from Desktop as a Service (DaaS) in the Microsoft world? What is the use case for DaaS vs. VDI?
Hey Jonathan, not sure if I just missed it, but you didnt go through the part where you would explain how to shutdown the other VM's while out of office hours?
Hi Jonathan, I’m a big fan of you, watching every single video. I wonder how would you price the AVD environment to you 11 and 50 user client? Do you find out, if there is a bare minimum from a user count perspective? Thank you so much.
such a great video and explanation can we have more details about the speed of the virtual machine it is a good enough to run a massive programs for example graphic designing programs and more ?
Great channel 😀 If a user logs on to the first host and the next time they logon due to load balancing they are logged on to the second host for their AVD. Would any configurations or changes they did to their profile be lost?
thanks Jonathan great video. I am seeing a lot about fslogix as well. How does this fit into all this? what are people using in place of roaming user profiles these days in a physical ad server environment?
Yes, fslogix replaces roaming profiles. In my video i only used one session host so fslogix wasn’t required. In bigger implementations where you’re using multiple session hosts, then you would need to implement fslogix.
@@bearded365guy Cheers Jonathan. What are people using these days is a physical AD deployments. I still have a few customers who yearn for roaming profiles but i refuse to use them. I did here that fslogix can be use used in and old school non virtualised environment. Is there any truth to that? Thanks
How do you secure those AVD-host? prevent user from install executable, web-apps, malware, virus, etc... prevent them from changing major settings for the application to run. how do you manage the users settings, you did not deploy FSLogix?
What if you have a Windows 2019/2022 server in Azure, how would you make the users single-sign-on to it? like a file server or print server, or a LOB app that requires login? how to Entra-ID joined Server OS and also add it to Intune?
OK, so for us…… if we needed an app server/SQL server we would have a domain in Azure running AVD. This would mean a DC and using FSLogix for profiles.
1. If I have my users located at Europe and Asias region then do I need to create different Resource groups for each of them and create Hostpools accordingly, will it cause streaming issues for user when they access from different regions ? 2. If I have Intune deploying required security Apps and Config policies, how do I on board and deploy them if I choose AD join ? as Users need to access on prem infra and there's no Hybrid Entra join option. Thanks.
Hey Jonathan, Thanks for making this video! :) I just want to confirm where the profiles get stored? Like we need storage accounts for the same right? and what about fslogixs? Could you please make a video on the same!
Jonathan props for your video, I have a question tho. Isn't the second case and third case explained similar? At the end, neither company wanted to spend money on getting their equipment for them and they needed access to a private application. Correct me if am wrong. Additionally, wouldn't be easier to set up Windows in a VMs or EC2 instance and set up a Remote Desktop Connection for the users after installing the desired app in the instance. (Trying to understand AVD cases)
For some reason the MFA does not work when I log into my RDP. I just click on the RDP and it loads without prompting for username/password or MFA. Any clue why?
Hi Jonathan, what do you say to small/med businesses that still need to purchase thin clients in addition to the AVDs, from their point of view it would be 2x the cost but is this offset with the centralisation benefits that the AVDs provide?
I don’t see too many businesses going down the thin client route. Thin clients are expensive even at the side of a standard device with an i3 processor. I do get the advantages of thin clients though.
Are there any problems using linux clients? Another question: A few years ago, I worked at a company that used ThinClients (very cheap ones) with a simple interface with only host and password fields. Is it possible to use them to connect to AVD?
How much quicker and responsive is to use Azure compared to office building based network applications? My experience with office ones is horrible latency.
Hey Jonathan, great video. I do have a doubt. Recently I deployed two AVDs and I have enabled the time redirection for both AVDs under local group policy editor. My question is when I choose the time for windows update and restart as 3:00am, which timezone does the AVD follow? Is it UTC?
is it possible in 2024-OCT to have a 100% Cloud ONLY AVD deployment with FSLogix ???? no on-prem server, only a firewall, internet-access, and 100 Linux & Win 10 laptop.
What would you say the yearly cost is for a virtual desktop as per the spec you just did. 2 Cores, 8GB, 128GB, Win11 and Office365 installed ?. Wondering if this would be a cheaper option to supplying corporate grade laptops, and move to a BYOD policy. Im an IT admin in a relatively small UK company with 260 laptops/PC's currently.
The cost savings for Azure VD are when you have multiple servers available during business hours and then only one or two out of hours. With clever design you can control costs. We have several clients using this method.
Great stuff as always. I am still a little confused though. If I have an E5 license this comes with VM but you still have to pay extra for usage? Is that right? I am looking for a solution right now that is just for me. I'm on a Mac but need Windows for testing things like Intune setup and also dealing with limitations with Mac Office Applications vs their Windows counterpart. Would you recommend this or some other way to do testing?
Do we have to Create AADDS at first to get it worked. I have created without AADDS and followed all the steps. But when the remote user is trying to connect the session, it will never happen.
@bearded365guy Ta for reply! So when you setup it asks how many users. I setup 1 obviously and will setup a test environment. If setting up a big environment what would you chose? Why would you need more than 1? Confused
A few simple IaaS question: 1. How to upgrade an Azure Windows 11 21H2 Gen2 VM to 24H2 ? 2. How to upgrade an Azure Windows 11 Enterprise Multi-Session 21H2 Gen2 VM to 24H2 ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I know it's a hard question, please ask all Microsoft Azure MVP you can reach !!!!! Please & Thanks
Why is this mess so stupidity complex? Azure hates humanity? Sure, there's nothing wrong with "advanced" "custom" options and setups. If AVD are to be the next big thing it should have been easy a LONG time ago to login and click start and be done with this mess.
