Virtual Desktop Service – v6.0 Release Notes

Remediate an issue causing abnormally large amount of API traffic in a certain configuration

Enhancement to Cloud Insights integration –capturing per-user performance metrics and displaying them in the User context

Improvements to ANF provisioning automation – improved automated registration of NetApp as a provider in the customer’s Azure tenant

Phrasing adjustment when creating a new AVD Workspace

Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements

Updates to reflect that Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is now Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Bug fix for username formatting in Excel exports

Improved configurations for custom branded HTML5 login pages

Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements

Updates to reflect that Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is now Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Updates to the reflect the more services/GPU VMs are available in new regions

Introduction of an additional HTML5 browser-based gateway/access point for VMs

Improved user routing after deleting a host pool

Bug fix for a scenario where importing an unmanaged host pool was not functioning as expected

Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements

Update the version of the .NET framework installed on each VM from v4.7.2 to v4.8.0

Additional back-end enforcement of the use of https:// and TLS 1.2 or greater between the Local Control Plane team and any other entity

Bug fix for the Delete Backup Operation in the Command Center – this now properly references the time zone of CWMGR1

Rename the Command Center action from Azure File share to Azure Files share

Naming convention updates in Azure Shared Image Gallery

Improved concurrent user login count collection

Update to outbound traffic allowed from CWMGR1, if restricting traffic outbound from the CWMGR1 VM

If you are not restricting outbound traffic from CWMGR1, you do not have to make any updates here

If you are restricting outbound traffic from CWMGR1, please allow access to vdctoolsapiprimary.azurewebsites.net. Note: you no longer need to allow access to vdctoolsapi.trafficmanager.net.

Lay the foundation for future support of custom prefixes in server names

Improved process automation and redundancies for Azure deployments

Numerous deployment automation enhancements for Google Cloud Platform deployments

Support for Windows Server 2019 in Google Cloud Platform deployments

Bug fix for a subset of scenarios where the Windows 10 20H2 EVD image

Introduces Cloud Insights integration, delivering streaming performance data for User Experience, VM and Storage layers

Introduces a function that allows you to quickly navigate to a VDS page visited recently

Substantially improved list (Users, Groups, Servers, Applications, etc.) loading times for Azure deployments

Introduces the ability to easily export lists of Users, Groups, Servers, Admins, Reports, etc.

Introduces the ability to control what VDS MFA methods are available for customers (customer prefers email vs. SMS, for example)

Introduces customizable “from” fields for VDS self-service password reset emails

Introduces the option to only allow VDS self-service password reset emails to go to specified domains (company owned vs. personal, for example)

Introduces an update that can prompt the user to add their email to their account so that they can use it or MFA/self-service password resets

When starting a stopped deployment, start all VMs within the deployment as well

Performance improvement for determining which IP address to assign to newly created Azure VMs

Introduce Start on Connect for Pooled session hosts in AVD host pools

Introduce User performance metrics via Cloud Insights integration

Display the Servers tab more prominently in the Workspaces module

Allow the restoration of a VM via Azure Backup if the VM has been deleted from VDS

Improved handling of Connect to Server functionality

Improved handling of variables when creating and updating certificates automatically

Bug fix for an issue where clicking an X in a drop-down menu didn’t clear the selection as expected

Improved reliability and automatic error handling for SMS message prompts

Update to the User Support role – this can now terminate processes for a logged in user

Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements

Introduction of additional AVD host pool properties

Introduce additional automation resilience in Azure deployments in the event of back-end service issues

Include the server name in the new browser tab when using the Connect to Server feature

Display the quantity of users in each group

Enhanced resilience for the Connect to Server feature in all deployments

Additional enhancements to setting MFA options for organizations and end users

Clarity improvement - remove the size of an Azure Backup snapshot, as Azure doesn’t return the size of the snapshot

Add the ability to delete a snapshot in non-Azure environments

Bug fix for AVD host pool creation when using special characters

Bug fix for workload scheduling for host pool via the Resources tab

Bug fix for an error prompt that appears when cancelling a bulk user import

Bug fix for a possible scenario with settings of application added to a Provisioning Collection

Update to the email address sending notifications/messages – messages will now be sent from noreply@vds.netapp.com

Introduce Start on Connect feature for Personal AVD host pools

Introduce Storage context in the Workspace module

Introduce Storage (Azure NetApp Files) monitoring via Cloud Insights integration

Improved logging for VM Cloning actions

Bug fix for a specific workload scheduling scenario

Bug fix for not displaying a VM’s time zone in a certain scenario

Bug fix for not logging out a AVD user in a certain scenario

Updates to automatically generated emails to reflect NetApp branding

Resolve an issue with automated certificate creation that arose after last night’s update that improved automated certificate management

Enhancements to the Cloud Insights integration:

Update to task history in the Deployments module – improved handling of task history

Bug fix for an issue where an Azure Backup couldn’t be restored to CWMGR1 from a disk in a subset of scenarios

Bug fix for an issue where certificates weren’t automatically being updated and created

Bug fix for an issue where a stopped deployment didn’t start quickly enough

Update to the State drop-down list when creating a Workspace – remove the item “National” from the list

Additional updates to reflect NetApp branding

Due to increasingly variable response times from Azure, we are increasing the amount of time we wait for a response when entering Azure credentials during the deployment wizard.

Updates to the NetApp Cloud Insights integration – new streaming data points:

Update the Connect to Server function to allow administrative connections to VMs even when VMs are set to disallow connections from end users

API enhancements to enabled theming & branding in a subsequent release

Improved visibility of the actions menu available in HTML5 connections via Connect to Server or RDS user sessions via HTML5

Increase the QTY of characters supported in the name of an activity Scripted Events

Updated Provisioning Collections OS choices by type

Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements