Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) has traditionally meant one thing: session hosts running as Azure virtual machines, brokered by a control plane that also lives in Azure. That assumption no longer holds. Microsoft now documents two distinct ways to keep AVD session hosts outside a standard Azure VM: AVD Hybrid and AVD on Azure Local. They
Microsoft is reworking how Azure Virtual Desktop handles network interruptions. The new approach, currently rolling out as Modern Auto-Reconnect, moves away from the retry-based model AVD has used for years and replaces it with a connection preservation model built on RDP Multipath. Here’s what’s changing, why it matters for end users, and what admins need
Remote Help lets your helpdesk team screen-share, chat with, and (with the right permission) take elevated control of a user’s session — including AVD multi-session hosts where several users can be active on the same VM at once. This is a two-part walkthrough. Part 1 covers enabling Remote Help at the tenant level and doing
