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Oct 5, 2020

Go on a tour of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), and see all the latest updates. If you're new to WVD, it's a desktop and app virtualization service hosted in Azure, and it’s more popular than ever with the global acceleration of people working remotely. Kam VedBrat, Partner Group Program Manager for Windows Virtual Desktop, joins host Jeremy Chapman to show how they’ve been accelerating efforts to improve elasticity, simplify deployment and management, and optimize latency for customers all over the world.

► Updates include:

• Microsoft Teams A/V redirect: improves latency and reduces CPU usage, which lowers costs

• QuickStart: streamlines the setup experience, and makes deployment easier

• Service Monitoring: a dashboard with all the essential KPIs to monitor user experience and performance

• Policy management and security configuration: Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session support is coming to Microsoft Endpoint Manager for hybrid AAD joined VMs

• MSIX App Attach: you can have a slim virtual desktop image and customize the apps that are available for each user

► QUICK LINKS:

00:00 - Introduction

00:17 - WVD Progress

02:12 - Microsoft Teams A/V redirect

03:07 - QuickStart

04:07 - Service Monitoring

05:49 - Policy Management

07:18 - MSIX App Attach

09:04 - How to Lower Costs

► Link References:

The new WVD QuickStart can deploy a full WVD environment for you with the click of a button at https://aka.ms./WVDQuickStart.

Learn how to scale your VM's and find guidance on setting up the scaling tool at https://aka.ms/wvdautoscale.

Check out our updated learning path for WVD, and walk through the new setup and management processes at https://aka.ms/LearnWVD.

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