AVD hosts experiencing severe disk contention during morning logins
We run an Azure Virtual Desktop environment with roughly 163 Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise multisession hosts supporting about 2,000 devices. Each host uses an E8s_v5 VM size with…
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AVD Hosts Experiencing Severe Disk Contention During Morning Logins
We have an Azure Virtual Desktop environment with around 163 Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise multisession hosts supporting roughly 2,000 devices. Each host uses an E8s_v5 VM size with…
What should an emergency account-lockdown procedure disable or revoke?
We recently needed to terminate a user quickly, which led me to build a script for the first-response steps instead of handling everything manually. It can revoke sessions…
What should an emergency employee account lockdown process disable or revoke?
We recently had to terminate a user quickly, which prompted me to build a reversible script for emergency access lockdowns instead of handling everything manually. It currently revokes…
AVD Hosts Randomly Freeze and Become Completely Unreachable
Two AVD session hosts running on D16s_v5 VMs in Southeast Azure have started locking up intermittently after working normally since July. They run Windows 11 24H2/25H2, use Premium…
AVD Session Hosts Freeze Completely Despite Showing as Running
Two Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts (D16s_v5 running Windows 11 24H2/25H2 in Australia Southeast) have started becoming completely unresponsive after running normally since July. The freezes began a…
Azure Virtual Desktop Hosts Freeze Completely Despite Low Usage
Two Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts running Windows 11 24H2/25H2 on D16s_v5 VMs in Australia Southeast had been stable since July, but over the past few weeks both…
YubiKey Sign-In Loops in Azure Virtual Desktop
We use Azure Virtual Desktop to let offshore users access systems while keeping the underlying data in the UK. Conditional Access blocks access from outside the AVD environment…
AVD Hosts Randomly Freeze and Become Completely Unreachable
Two Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts running on D16s_v5 VMs in Southeast Azure have been stable since July but started freezing intermittently about two or three weeks ago.…
How serious is it that I used my personal laptop to access a bank client’s remote environment?
I work for a company that provided me with a corporate laptop, but I've been assigned to a banking client for almost two years and have used my…
YubiKey authentication repeatedly fails inside Azure Virtual Desktop
We use Azure Virtual Desktop to keep company data in the UK while allowing some overseas users to work remotely. Conditional Access blocks Office access outside AVD and…
How serious is it that I used my personal laptop to access a bank client’s remote environment?
I work for a company that provided me with a laptop, and I've been assigned to a banking client for almost two years. The client environment uses a…
How should I manage a few on-premises servers with cloud-only devices?
We have two air-gapped networks for contractual and security requirements, with separate on-premises domains connected to different Microsoft 365 tenants. For one environment, we want to move toward…
Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts Won’t Start Automatically
My Azure Virtual Desktop users suddenly can't trigger automatic startup for their session host VM. When the first user tries to connect, they immediately receive: "We couldn't connect…
Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts Won’t Start Automatically
My Azure Virtual Desktop users suddenly can't connect unless I manually start the session host VM first. When the first user attempts to connect, they immediately receive a…
What’s the Best Way to Map an Azure Files Share for All Users on Pooled AVD Hosts?
I've set up Azure Virtual Desktop with Cloud Kerberos and FSLogix, and everything is working properly. The session hosts are Microsoft Entra joined and managed through Intune. I…
How Can We Safely Take Over a Complex Azure Environment With Limited Experience?
Our company is planning to take complete administration of its Azure environment away from our managed service provider. The setup includes hundreds of virtual machines, Entra ID user…
Can Conditional Access limit travel exemptions to a specific country?
We use Azure Virtual Desktop with a Conditional Access policy that blocks access from locations outside our approved office and home-country IP ranges. A second policy currently excludes…
Can Conditional Access allow travel access only from an approved country?
We use Azure Virtual Desktop with Conditional Access policies that block sign-ins from locations outside our approved office or home-country locations. We also have a travel-exemption policy that…
Intermittent Error 1326 When FSLogix Mounts Profiles from Azure Files
Has anyone experienced Azure Files intermittently rejecting SMB access in an Azure Virtual Desktop environment using FSLogix and Microsoft Entra Kerberos? The same user, session host, storage account,…