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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 domain controller.
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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 to be one of the most-a...
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 Sign-On behaves for the end user. Get it wrong at the des...
What Are Context-Based Redirections?
Context-Based Redirections is a Preview feature in Azure Virtual Desktop that lets you control peripheral and device redirection — clipboard, drives, printers, USB — based on the compliance state of the connecting device, rather than applying a blanket allow or deny for all users.
Instead of a binar...