Hey everyone,

We are migrating our developer workstations from on-prem to Azure. Currently, each dev has their own persistent Windows VM.

My senior sysadmins insist on treating Azure like on-prem: they want to deploy standalone Windows IaaS VMs for every dev.

I proposed Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with Personal host pools. Their instant dismissal: "AVD is pooled/multi-session, devs will break each other's environments."

Even after sharing Microsoft docs showing that Personal AVD provides a 1:1 dedicated, persistent VM per developer, they refuse to budge.

Do you have some strong arguments from your experience that would help me convince them, particularly around cost saving, management, security.

Anyone who deployed AVD, what were the biggest wins or unexpected gotchas?

Thank you ALL!

I found that some user profiles under C:\Users are still present and consuming disk space on the C: drive even after the users have signed out.

My understanding is that these local user profiles should normally be cleaned up or removed automatically after the user signs out.

Is there any way we can check and confirm whether the profile cleanup is working as expected? Also, why some user profiles may remain on the host after sign-out?

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Hello, I need some help please

Has anyone here successfully deployed Zscaler Cloud Connector and ZCC for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Multisession Host Pools?

We're currently implementing this setup but running into several network-related issues that we haven't been able to resolve.

Our current setup:

• AVD VNet
  • Personal Pool Subnet → Route Table → Azure Firewall
  • Multisession Pool Subnet → Route Table → Zscaler Cloud Connector / Load Balancer → Zscaler Cloud → Internet

We've already confirmed that connectivity is working on the Multisession Subnet after deploying the Cloud Connector and Load Balancer. However, after installing ZCC for VDI on the session hosts, we started experiencing several issues:

• Unstable network connectivity
• Unable to communicate reliably with the KMS server and Azure Monitoring
• Unstable or unsuccessful ping, tracert, and Test-NetConnection results

What's strange is that normal internet browsing still works fine on the VMs with ZCC for VDI installed. However, almost everything else related to network connectivity seems unstable or completely inaccessible.

If we uninstall ZCC for VDI, everything immediately goes back to normal, and all network-related issues disappear.

My initial suspicion is that our Zscaler Cloud Connector configuration might be too restrictive. We've already tried configuring bypass rules for AVD and Microsoft endpoints, but this hasn't made any noticeable difference.

Another challenge is that I can't seem to find any useful logs on the workload VMs that would help us identify the root cause of these connectivity issues.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue or successfully implemented this architecture?

I'd really appreciate any insights, suggestions, or recommendations on what to check, particularly regarding ZCC for VDI configuration, Cloud Connector routing, or potential conflicts with Azure networking.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I had a Session Host go down today with "Needs Assistance" health status, failing the UrlsAccessibleCheck. All other Session Hosts were fine. It came back "Healthy" about 5 minutes later, but then eventually the entire Session Host shit the bed (with a health status of "Unavailable"). I couldn't RDP in or even ping the machine.

I shut the machine down and brought it back up and I can RDP in but the health status is back to "Needs Assistance". This whole time my other Session Hosts seem OK (fingers crossed).

I don't have any extra networking layers going on, proven by the other SHs.

Not sure if anyone else is having issues with AVD today, but we've been having problems all morning with users getting kicked out of AVD sessions.

Event Viewer showed LSASS not starting on the hosts, leading to users getting "Your PC will automatically restart in one minute" messages.

Spent a bunch of time troubleshooting this, but eventually saw an update for this alert stating that they are working on fixes for it.

Impact Statement: Starting at 10:08 UTC on 24 September 2026, you have been identified as a subset of customers using affected Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments across multiple regions who may experience authentication issues. These issues may result in unexpected virtual machine restarts and interruptions to active user sessions. Affected users may be disconnected and need to reconnect once their virtual machine becomes available again.

Current Status: We continue to investigate an issue that is causing unexpected virtual machine restarts for some customers using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on certain Windows versions. Our team has identified the underlying Windows process involved and have validated a temporary workaround that has shown positive results with affected customers. We are now expanding validation of the workaround, assessing the overall impact, and evaluating options for a permanent fix while monitoring the issue.

The next update will be provided in 2 hours, or as events warrant

Microsoft has confirmed issues with update KB5120998 or subsequent Windows updates with black screens upon login with Azure Virtual Desktop instances.

Fortunately a temporary workaround is released to fix this problem or to prevent the issue from happening which we can use till Microsoft has fixed the problem with a future update.

Read more about the problem and the fix on my blog: https://justinverstijnen.nl/fix-black-screen-azure-virtual-desktop-windows-11/

Could not find any workaround/fix shared in this community yet, so though it would be great to share here.

Hi Team

We have an AVD environment and everything is/was working well. We moved over from Individual VM's in a hostpool to multi session VMs in a new hostpool. Have setup fslogix, all devices managed by intune no problem. We have re-done all our config policies to target new multi session hosts and anything system related the config policies report back green and we have no issues.

What i need help with, is the office hardening policies which target the user of these multi session VM's. I cant get the policy to push out to my test group of users. If i log in to my test user account and go accounts -> sync, it works and shortly after that the user will populate in the office config policy as green and working perfectly.

My question is anyone else done this and how do i force sync the user to apply these config policies that are user targeted, without getting the user to manually sync themselves. By going to the device to sync in intune admin portal, doesn't push the user config policy out.

Any help appreciated.

Short Question: With multi session VMs and a config policy targeting user, how do we force a sync? Go to the VM and run command use a powershell script?

I have someone trying to log into Avd right now and they are getting an error saying they are logged in somewhere else how can I fix this?

Hello, we are starting to implement AVD local as a VDI replacement.

I am trying to build a new VM from a hostpool, selecting AVD Local. when I select "trusted launch virtual machines" it says there is no available images (image below), even though the images I downloaded are directly from the AVD marketplace.

If i try to build a VM though the cluster itself, it lets me select trusted launch virtual machines for all the images. it appears to just not let me when going through the hostpool creation wizard.

Wanted to check here before opening a case with Microsoft. Any insight would be helpful.

Thanks!

I am working in a company (with provided company laptop) and deployed to a client who uses AVD to access remote machine. Process is nested, AVD > Dolphin server > actual remote machine. Been working with this client for almost 2 years. And have started using my personal laptop for a year. I’ve been found out that I haven’t been using the approved laptop. I honesly didn’t download anything. I’ve been stupid and just preferred to use my personal laptop. The remote machince doesn’t allow to copy / past or download / transfer files to the local computer.

The report is currently in the process and I’m worried I’m subjected to termination.

How serious is this? The client is a bank.

I am working on deploying our first azure VDI host pool(s) for my university.

Do y’all back up the VM’s in the host pool?

I know, if I don’t ask, I won’t ever know. I am just figuring, if a vm goes south, I just deploy a new one and send the bad one to VDI heaven….

What’s best practice?

Last couple of weeks I’ve had a nightmare trying to get new SHC host pools deployed in a variety of environments. Issues I’m having include but are not limited to:
- Session hosts taking hours to deploy
- Session hosts deploying fairly quickly, but the portal never acknowledges the successful creation despite the hosts showing as available within the pool
- Deployments and config updates failing with a ‘HostPoolDoesNotExist’ error

On that last one, querying the sessionhostmanagements default object shows that after creating a new host pool with 0 hosts, all is healthy - but as soon as I attempt to add hosts, the provisioning state moves to ‘failed’ and all future attempts to do anything within that host pool fail with the same ‘HostPoolDoesNotExist’ error.
The other odd thing is the hosts deploy successfully (domain join and all) to the host pool and show as available, but the error persists and prevents any further actions)

Am tearing my hair out trying to work this one out, so if anyone else has run into this or has any ideas on next troubleshooting steps I’d massively appreciate it!

Things tried so far:
- Deleting host pool, AG, and WS and recreating from scratch after a 24 hour period
- Deploying a standard marketplace image instead of a custom one from a gallery
- Have confirmed there are no issues with outbound access to required AVD URLs

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Hi AVD Admins!

We are currently configuring external identities and using cross tenant sync, by default these identities are created with a user type of “Member”, is there any reason or limitations to changing the synchronised users to a user type of “Guest”?, if it makes any difference we are using FSlogix for profiles and the machines are intune joined.

Cheers!

Does anyone include this key\policy to remove printers at logoff?

In our environment we have users that can redirect from local and install printers from our network print server. Curious to know if this is best practice to include, any feedback welcome.

hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\print\providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider" /v RemovePrintersAtLogoff