AVD What's New: Pin RemoteApp Shortcuts to Local Desktops
Microsoft has quietly been making Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps feel more like local applications, and the latest step is a big one. A new public …
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AVD What's New: Windows Update Management Guidance for Session Hosts
Managing Windows updates on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts has always been one of those topics where everyone has an opinion but nobody could …
Windows 365 Weekly: RemoteApp Desktop Pinning, Cloud Apps GA
Two updates on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week focus on improving how users access remote applications. First, RemoteApp shortcuts can …
AVD What's New: Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Reaches General Availability
Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid has reached general availability, and it fundamentally changes the migration math for organizations sitting on legacy VDI …
Windows 365 Weekly: Citrix DPP Gov GA, Reserve CMK
Two general-availability announcements landed on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and both close important gaps for specific Windows …
Windows 365 Weekly: Autopilot DPP Reaches Government GA
A quiet but important update appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week: Autopilot Device Preparation (DPP) has reached general …
Windows 365 Weekly: Reserve Bulk Ops Hit 1,000 Devices
A single new entry appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and it’s a meaningful scale upgrade for organizations relying on …
Windows 365 Weekly: Reserve Autopilot GA, Display Settings
Two updates landed on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and both are worth paying attention to. One moves a key provisioning feature to …
Intune 2608: Unattended Remote Help, Apple DDM, eSIM
Microsoft Intune’s Service Release 2608 (week of August 25, 2026) is one of the most substantial updates of the year — with major upgrades …
AVD August 2026 Update: App Attach Now Supports Multiple User Configuration Files for App-V Packages
Azure Virtual Desktop’s August 2026 updates continue to roll in, and the latest addition is a significant one for organizations navigating the …
Windows 365 Developer Configuration Image Now Includes Microsoft 365 Apps
Microsoft has added another piece to the Windows 365 Developer Configuration puzzle. As of the week of August 24, 2026, the Windows 11 Enterprise …
Windows 365 Developer Configuration Image Gets Intelligent Terminal and Coreutils
Microsoft quietly slipped a notable update into the Windows 365 What’s New page this week: the Windows 11 Enterprise Developer Configuration …
AVD August 2026 Updates: Passwordless macOS, Modern Auto-Reconnect Rollout, Web Screen Capture Protection, and RAW Printing
Azure Virtual Desktop’s August 2026 update is a packed one, delivering four significant new features that touch on security, connection …
Windows 365 August 2026 Updates: Passwordless Auth on macOS, Auto-Reconnect, Web Screen Capture Protection, and Admin Insights Expansion
August is bringing a fresh wave of Windows 365 updates, and this batch touches four areas that matter to IT admins: authentication, connection …
AVD Modern Auto-Reconnect: Seamless Session Recovery Powered by RDP Multipath
Network disruptions have long been one of the most frustrating aspects of remote desktop computing. A brief Wi-Fi hiccup, a VPN tunnel reset, or an …
Intune 2607 Update: Windows App AVD Controls, OneDrive Governance, and MCP Disablement for Copilot
Microsoft Intune’s Service Release 2607 continues to deliver incremental updates beyond the initial July 27 release date. Five new settings …
Windows 365 Brings Autopilot Device Preparation to Citrix Cloud PCs — What IT Admins Need to Know
For organizations that deliver Windows 365 Cloud PCs through Citrix, provisioning has always had a gap. Standard Windows 365 Cloud PCs — Enterprise, …
Intune Service Release 2607: Samsung Knox E-FOTA, macOS Custom Compliance, Defender Controlled Configuration, and More
Microsoft Intune’s Service Release 2607 (Week of July 27, 2026) is a substantial update that spans all major platforms — Android Enterprise, …
Intune Remote Help Now Supports AVD RemoteApp Sessions
Microsoft has added a significant capability to Intune Remote Help: the ability to provide remote assistance within Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApp …
Windows 365 Adds Bulk Deprovisioning and PowerShell Security Hardening — What IT Admins Need to Know
Managing Cloud PC lifecycles at scale has always been a balancing act between operational efficiency and security. You want to deprovision departed …
AVD Brings External Identity and Passwordless Authentication to Android
Microsoft’s July 2026 updates for Azure Virtual Desktop bring two significant enhancements to the Android client experience. Both target the …
Windows 365 Brings External Identities and Passwordless Auth to Android — What IT Admins Need to Know
For IT administrators managing Windows 365 environments, supporting external users on mobile devices has historically meant compromise. You could give …
Intune Extends Multiple Managed Accounts to Outlook on iOS: What Multi-Tenant Admins Need to Know
Microsoft Intune’s latest weekly update brings a quietly significant change for organizations managing multiple tenants: Multiple Managed …
Windows 365 Expands BCDR with Alternate Regions — What IT Admins Need to Know
For organizations running Windows 365 Cloud PCs in geographies where only one Azure region is supported, disaster recovery has been a persistent …
Windows 365 Cloud PC Settings Reaches General Availability — What It Means for IT Admins
Microsoft has been steadily building toward a unified settings experience for Windows 365 throughout 2026. First came the navigation reorganization in …
Windows 365 Cloud Apps File Path Publishing and Redesigned Provisioning Policy UI — What's New July 2026
Microsoft shipped two Windows 365 updates the week of July 13, 2026, and both are about making Cloud Apps and provisioning policy management more …
Intune May-June Catch-Up: MAA Automation Enforcement, STIG Baselines, Android AMAPI Migration, and Shadow AI Detection
Microsoft Intune has been shipping updates steadily through June and early July, and several significant features arrived in service release 2605 and …
AVD Adds Domainless Federation Support: External Identities Without Domain Matching
Microsoft has added external identity support for Domainless SAML IdP federation to Azure Virtual Desktop. Aligned with the general availability of …
Windows 365 Policy Reranking, Customer-Managed Encryption for Reserve, and Domainless Federation — What's New July 2026
Microsoft dropped three significant Windows 365 updates in the July 6 and June 15 What’s New entries — covering policy management, encryption …
RDP Multipath Reaches General Availability: What This Means for Your AVD Sessions
Microsoft has announced that RDP Multipath with redundant TCP transport paths is now generally available for Azure Virtual Desktop. This marks the …
Windows 365 RDP Multipath with Redundant TCP Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially declared RDP Multipath with redundant TCP transport paths generally available for Windows 365 Cloud PC, appearing in the Week …
Intune 2606: ChatGPT as Protected App, M365 E3/E5 Licensing Shake-Up, and Android AI Agent Controls
Microsoft Intune’s Service Release 2606 continues to roll out with a second wave of updates that didn’t get coverage in our initial 2606 …
Azure Virtual Desktop June 2026: Host Pools, Autoscaling GA
Microsoft delivered one of the most consequential Azure Virtual Desktop updates of 2026 in June. Three features reached general availability — …
Windows 365 Security Hardening and Flexible Naming — What's New in July 2026
Microsoft quietly rolled out two important updates to Windows 365 in recent weeks — one security-focused, one operational. Both deserve your attention …
Intune Windows Security Baseline 25H2 Adds Critical Block for IE11 COM Automation
Microsoft has released an important update to the Intune security baseline for Windows, version 25H2, introducing a new setting to help secure your …
Intune Service Release 2606: EAM Auto-Updates, macOS PKG Automation, and WPA3 for Apple Devices
Microsoft has released the Intune Service Release 2606 (late June 2026), bringing significant quality-of-life improvements that materially reduce …
Azure Virtual Desktop Updates for June 2026: Automated Host Pools, Dynamic Autoscaling, and Ephemeral OS Disks
June 2026 brings an exciting round of management and cost-optimization updates to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Microsoft has heavily focused on …
Critical Update: Microsoft Intune App for Android Version Enforcement
Microsoft has rolled out a critical update regarding the Microsoft Intune app for Android. As of recent changes taking effect, the minimum supported …
Breaking Intune Change: Multi Admin Approval Now Enforced on Automation via Graph API
If you manage Microsoft Intune with automation scripts, Azure Automation runbooks, or third-party tools, you need to pay close attention to the latest …
Intune Enforces HTTPS for Win32 Apps, Apple ADE Entra Grouping Goes GA, Android BYOD Moves to AMAPI — June 19, 2026
Microsoft posted its Week of June 15, 2026 What’s New update with three significant announcements that went mostly under the radar: HTTPS …
Microsoft Intune Delivers STIG Audit Baseline + Enhanced Device Page — June 2026 What's New
Microsoft posted its Week of June 15, 2026 Intune What’s New update, and it includes two announcements worth unpacking: a new native STIG SCAP …
Intune Remote Help Gets a Performance Upgrade — What IT Teams Should Know
Microsoft shipped an update to Remote Help for Windows this week (version 5.2.1037.0) focused on general bug fixes and performance improvements to …
Windows 365 Flex Shared Cloud PCs Now Support Custom Naming Templates — Public Preview
Windows 365 Flex Shared Cloud PCs now support enhanced naming templates in public preview — a seemingly small change with significant downstream …
Windows 365 Context-Based Redirections, GPU Options, 32 vCPU, and Dev-Ready Images — June 2026 Update
Microsoft’s June 2026 Windows 365 update is its most consequential yet — spanning security, compute power, GPU capabilities, and developer …
Azure Virtual Desktop Introduces Context-Based Redirections — Dynamic BYOD Security Controls
Azure Virtual Desktop now supports context-based redirections in public preview, introducing dynamic, server-side control of clipboard, drive, …
Beyond the UI Refresh: Windows Security Features Every Sysadmin Should Enable in 2026
Every Windows feature drop brings a fresh wave of UI refinements, Start menu tweaks, and widget panel revisions. These are the changes that make …
Microsoft Intune: All RBAC Roles Now Get Automatic Security Copilot Access
Microsoft quietly shipped one of the more consequential Intune changes of 2026 this week — and most organizations haven’t noticed it yet. …
W365 - Teams RemoteApp and CloudApp Optimization Reaches GA: What SlimCore Means for Your Cloud PC Environment
If your organization delivers Microsoft Teams through Windows 365 CloudApps or Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps, this week’s announcement …
Windows 365 Custom Images from Azure Compute Gallery Are Now Generally Available
If your organization uses custom images for Windows 365 Cloud PC provisioning, this week’s update is worth paying attention to. Microsoft has …
Azure Virtual Desktop — FSLogix for Cloud-Only and External Identities Is Now GA
Microsoft quietly shipped a landmark capability in May 2026: FSLogix profile containers for cloud-only and external identities in Azure Virtual …
Microsoft Intune: What That 'Device-Reported Values' Compliance Update Actually Means
Microsoft quietly dropped a compliance reporting clarification in the May 2026 Intune service release that’s easy to scroll past — but if your …
Intune Now Supports Platform SSO During macOS Automated Device Enrollment
Your macOS zero-touch deployment just got a lot more zero-touch. Starting the week of May 11, 2026, Microsoft Intune supports completing Platform …
RDP Multipath Gains Redundant TCP Transport — GA Rollout Begins for Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft has begun the general availability rollout of redundant TCP transport paths for RDP Multipath in Azure Virtual Desktop. This enhancement …
Windows 365 Gains Autopilot Device Preparation, Reserve Upgrades, and RDP Multipath TCP — May 2026 Update
Microsoft delivered four meaningful updates to Windows 365 this week, spanning Cloud PC provisioning reliability, emergency access improvements for …
Azure Virtual Desktop Goes Truly Hybrid — Arc-Enabled Servers Now in Public Preview
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) has always been a cloud-native VDI service. But starting this week, that description needs an asterisk — because Microsoft …
Windows 365 Frontline Is Now Windows 365 Flex — Plus, Admin Insights Enters Public Preview
Microsoft shipped two significant updates for Windows 365 this week — one purely cosmetic (but strategically important), and one genuinely useful for …
Windows 365 Navigation in Microsoft Intune Has Been Reorganized — Here's What Changed
Your bookmarks are wrong. Your runbooks are wrong. And if your helpdesk has step-by-step guides for managing Cloud PCs in Microsoft Intune, those are …
Windows 365 First Sign-In Restore: IT Admin Guide
Microsoft quietly shipped one of the most practical quality-of-life improvements for Cloud PC deployments in February 2026: the Windows first sign-in …