azure virtual desktop

Microsoft has warned that a January security rollup can leave some Windows 11 machines unable to shut down or hibernate, while other recent updates are producing client-side regressions that break Azure Virtual Desktop and remote‑session authentication—an unsettling start to Patch Tuesday for...

The January 13, 2026 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5074109) delivers a heavy-duty security and quality package — but it also created a sharp trade‑off for some users: critical CVE mitigations and an NPU-related battery fix arrive alongside a client-side regression that can break Azure...

Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2026 has a nasty wrinkle: the January 13 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced a client-side regression that can prevent the Windows App from completing credential prompts, blocking Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 (Cloud PC) connections for many...

Microsoft’s January cumulative update is preventing some users from connecting to Microsoft 365 Cloud PCs and Azure Virtual Desktop sessions, and Microsoft has acknowledged the regression — offering Known Issue Rollback (KIR) and temporary connection workarounds while an out‑of‑band fix is...

Microsoft’s Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) represents a significant pivot in how enterprises can deliver full Windows and Office experiences from the cloud — a managed, multi-session Windows 10 platform optimized for Office 365 ProPlus with built-in migration paths for Windows 7...

Microsoft released the January 13, 2026 security baseline today — published as KB5074109 — and enterprise administrators should treat this as both a mandatory security checkpoint and a practical reminder about the new Hotpatch servicing cadence for Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2 and 25H2). The...

Microsoft confirmed that the January 13, 2026 cumulative update KB5074109 introduced a regression that can break Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) connections on some Windows clients, producing immediate authentication failures; organizations seeing this behavior should pause deployment, apply...

Nerdio announced on January 7, 2026, that Scott Manchester — a long‑time Microsoft executive who has led Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop product teams — will join the company as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), a strategic hire that centralizes product, engineering...

Microsoft’s push to position Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) as the default cloud-native EUC platform for managed service providers (MSPs) is no longer theoretical — it’s actionable. A recent whitepaper distributed through MCP Magazine and produced with vendor analysis argues that MSPs should...

Microsoft has opened a new hybrid chapter for desktop virtualization: Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can now use Azure Arc–enabled servers as session hosts, letting organizations run cloud‑managed virtual desktops on existing on‑premises hypervisors, physical Windows Servers, and HCI platforms such...

Nutanix’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2025 that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in hybrid environments — enabling organizations to run AVD session hosts on Nutanix AHV in their own datacenters while using Azure’s control plane for brokering...

Microsoft quietly pushed an optional Windows 11 update — surfaced as KB5070312 for version 23H2 — that addresses a persistent and widely reported File Explorer responsiveness bug along with a handful of smaller, but useful, quality fixes. Background / Overview Windows 11 follows a staged...

Nutanix has announced that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in hybrid environments — allowing organisations to host AVD session hosts on-premises on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor while using Azure’s control plane for brokering, management and security...

Nutanix’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in hybrid environments marks a deliberate push to give enterprises a true choice between cloud-first and on‑premises virtual desktop deployments—letting organisations run...

Nutanix and Microsoft have taken a significant step toward a more flexible, partner-driven VDI landscape by announcing that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run AVD session hosts on-premises on Nutanix AHV...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI not just a productivity feature but an operational platform rests on a simple premise: if agents are going to do real work, enterprises need a managed, auditable, and governable place to build, test, run and secure them — and Copilot Studio is that place...

Nutanix’s recent headlines — widely circulated as the company “expanding Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop flexibility across hybrid cloud” — are an important signal for enterprise desktop virtualization, but they must be read with care: the vendor’s public materials confirm a broad push to make...

Nutanix says it will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) on-premises running on its AHV hypervisor — a claim first reported by market news outlets at Microsoft Ignite 2025 — but the announcement, as circulated, deserves careful parsing, verification, and a sober look at what it would...

Nerdio this week confirmed it has been named a Finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year in the SDC (Software Development & Cloud) category for Canada — an endorsement that lands amid the company’s landmark 2025 milestones: a $500 million Series C led by General Atlantic and a...

Microsoft has placed Ephemeral OS Disk support for Azure Virtual Desktop into public preview, giving pooled session hosts a new stateless option that promises faster provisioning, lower OS-disk latency, and dramatically quicker reimage cycles — with clear operational tradeoffs that make it ideal...