On September, 30 2020, Gertjan Jongeneel and I presented a session with the title ‘Sharing everything you want to know about Windows Virtual Desktop – Notes from the field’ at the ‘Microsoft meets Community : Windows Virtual Desktop’ event second edition! This is a free community event organized for Microsoft customers and partners where with expert speakers to share news, insights, and experiences to the field.
If you attended this session, thanks for watching! If not and you are interested in watching it, see the recording below:
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During this session we referenced some articles, Microsoft Docs and tooling. As mentioned at the end of the session, this follow-up blog post included all the links, sorted out in corresponding chapters.
If you have any questions of feedback, please feel free to post these in the comments below.
Requirements
- Network ports requirements for Session Host VMs and Remote Desktop client
- Hub and spoke network topology
Deploy and Manage
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Spring 2020 Update: Guided Simulation
- Publish built-in apps in Windows Virtual Desktop
Client Experience
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Remote Desktop Web Client
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Connect with the Windows Desktop client
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Windows Store Client
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Connect with the Android client
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Connect with the iOS client
- Windows Virtual Desktop – Connect with the macOS client
- Set up email discovery to subscribe to your RDS feed
Optimizations
- Citrix Optimizer
- VMware OS Optimization Tool
- Base Image Script Framework (BIS-F)
- Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool (script)
- LoginVSI – Windows 10 – 2004 – Benchmark – Optimized with the Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool
Image Management
- Shared Image Gallery overview
- Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) – Image Management : How to manage and deploy custom images (including versioning) with the Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG)
Diagnostics and Monitoring
Scaling
GPU (NVIDIA and AMD)
- Configure graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration for Windows Virtual Desktop
- AMD powered NVv4 instance now certified by Autodesk
- AMD powered NVv4 instance now supported by Esri
- NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension for Windows
- NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension for Linux
- AMD GPU driver extension for Windows
- GPU tool – GPU-Z
- Configure graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20190 – New GPU features
- Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365) – Grace edition (5-day subscription key)
- How to deliver a GPU powered Azure VM (example for CAD applications) with Windows Virtual Desktop
Tools
- Patchfluent – Allows you to customize and download Windows 10 updates manually
- Connection Experience Indicator for RDS & WVD – Show notifications about the latency and bandwidth of the virtual desktop
- Remote Display Analyzer – Tool to analyze and log display protocol settings
Awesome session.
Thanks Frank!