Reclaiming host pool capacity from disconnected sessions is one of those AVD hygiene tasks that’s easy to configure once by hand in Intune, and easy to forget to replicate consistently across every host pool, tenant, or DTAP environment you manage. If you’re standing up host pools programmatically — or you just want this baked into
On July 15th, 2026, I received my 5th Microsoft MVP award — and once again, it’s a dual award, recognizing my contributions in both Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365. This one feels different. Not because the process changed, but because of what it represents: five consecutive years of being recognized in Azure Virtual
If your AVD environment is built entirely on cloud-only or external Entra ID identities — no on-prem AD, no Entra Domain Services — you can still give users FSLogix roaming profiles on Azure Files. Microsoft Entra Kerberos handles the ticket issuance, so the storage account can authenticate users over SMB without any line-of-sight to a
How to pull reliable last-logon data for Azure Virtual Desktop users straight from Log Analytics — without hand-rolling REST calls or asking an LLM to stitch your query results back together. Why last logon matters for AVD If you run AVD at any real scale, ‘when did this user last actually log on’ turns out
If you’ve ever sat in a design workshop and had someone ask “so which identity model should we use for AVD?”, you know it’s rarely a one-line answer. Identity is the foundation every other AVD decision sits on top of — FSLogix profile containers, MFA policy, Conditional Access, session host domain join, even how Single
