Release Notes

Nerdio Product Support

June 16, 2026 14:10

Current Release v8.0.1 GA (Release date June 16, 2026)

Features

Platform

NME Install Terraform Module is Now Public Preview: Download the latest module at https://github.com/Get-Nerdio/NME-Terraform. Additional Terraform modules for NME management capabilities will be added in future releases.
Console Connect:
1. UK Region Support: Expanded regional availability to include the UK Region.
2. Updated Favicon: Console Connect favicon now reflects the new Nerdio logo.
ControlUp Integration is Now End of Maintenance (EOM): Nerdio's integration with ControlUp will no longer be developed moving forward. Starting with this release, the ControlUp integration settings have been removed for new installations of Nerdio Manager and for any existing deployments where the integration is not configured. Existing deployments where the integration is configured are unaffected, and Nerdio will continue to support the integration, including critical bugfixes.

AVD

AVD Hybrid on Nutanix: Desktop image management support is now available!
Microsoft Agent Updates:
1. AVD Agent: v1.0.14114.100

Resolved Issues

Platform:
- Deployment: Intune-Only Deployment Path: Resolved an issue where customers experienced issues deploying Intune as a standalone option during initial NME setup. Customers can now do so without being required to enable AVD, resolving onboarding blockers for Windows 365 and physical endpoint environments with no AVD use case.
AVD:
- Slow loading of host pools for large customers: Resolved an issue that caused slow loading times on the Host Pools page for customers with a large number of session hosts.
- Desktop Images and application management: Resolved an issue where applications and scripted actions were hidden and could not be executed when the "Do not create image object" option was enabled. Deployments of applications and scripted actions are now correctly performed on the source VM.
- Custom RBAC and host pool settings: Resolved an issue where users assigned specific custom RBAC roles were unable to properly load Host Pool Settings tabs.
- Self-Service portal will check for existing permissions: The Self-Service portal will now check for existing user permissions in the target application group before attempting to assign them. If the required permissions already exist, Nerdio Manager will skip the assignment step and continue processing.
Device & App Management:
- Intune & Windows 365:
  - Error when editing Windows 365 items in US Government tenants: Resolved an issue where the error Could not find a property named 'userExperienceType' may be displayed. The user experience type function is not supported by government tenants. This error has been suppressed.
  - Intune User Experience call optimizations: The app service option IntuneUxHistory:Enabled may be added with a value of false to fully disable the user experience history data if desired.
- Unified App Management:
  - Error when deploying Winget applications which contain unexpected version characters: Resolved an issue where the error No newer package versions are available from the configured sources may be returned during deployment if the application version contains the characters < or >. In this scenario, the source and target version are now treated as identical and no action is taken.
Observability & AI:
- Operational Efficiency: Resolved an issue where recommendations appeared with 'No Data' in each row. Recommendations now display correctly.
- Intune Insights: Resolved an issue where OS health and Patch status were showing as 'Unknown' in the OS Health tab of Intune Insights. The feature now gathers and displays the information correctly.

Known Issues and Limitations

AVD:
- "Desktop Admin" RBAC Role Error: For Nutanix-enabled environments, administrators with the "Desktop Admin" RBAC role will not be able to create or update desktop images. This will be resolved in the upcoming release.

v8.0 Public Preview (Release date June 2, 2026)

Announcements

New Menu & All Features Page: Introduced a cleaner, more intuitive three-tier navigational menu. While off by default, users can enable it via the New Menu toggle in the top-left corner. A new All Features page provides a centralized, searchable view of every feature available within Nerdio Manager, and is only accessible when the new menu is enabled.
Localization Support: Nerdio Manager is now localized for Japanese. Users can select their desired supported language by clicking on their display name in the upper-right corner. Support for additional languages is coming soon!
Intune Policy Studio (Public Preview): Introduced a new Policy Studio feature that takes Nerdio Manager's Intune policy management capabilities to the next level with two key capabilities:
1. Settings Explorer surfaces Intune policies alongside their settings and assigned values, with real-time search across policy names, settings, and values.
2. Policy Results shows in-scope policies for a selected device or group, with conflict and duplication flags surfaced inline.
  
  Note: Device configuration policies are supported with this initial release, however some settings may be unavailable. Support for additional Intune policy types is planned.
Intune Script Management: The same editing, versioning, back-up, and recovery capabilities that Nerdio Manager offers for Intune policies are now available for Intune platform scripts!
AVD Hybrid Support on Nutanix AHV is now Public Preview! New features included in this release:
1. Re-image and re-size of session hosts
2. App Attach support
3. Unified Application Management (UAM) support
4. Scripted Actions support
5. Session Time Limits support
6. Custom Views support
Please see our AVD Hybrid KB for more details.
End of Support for AVD Classic. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 8.0 will be the last version that supports AVD Classic tenants and host pools. Microsoft will retire AVD Classic on September 30, 2026. After this date, regardless of which version of Nerdio Manager is deployed, AVD Classic will no longer function. Customers still using AVD Classic should migrate to AVD using the automated process within Nerdio Manager.

Features

Platform

Console Connect:
1. Session Logs: Introduced a new session details page for Console Connect, providing improved visibility into session activity.
2. Add All Available Host Pools: Added a Select All option to the Console Connect configuration that performs a one-time import of all available host pools into the region configuration, eliminating the need to add host pools individually.
3. Agent Uninstallation: Added an option to allow local users to uninstall the Console Connect agent directly from their device, providing greater flexibility for managing agent deployments.
4. Intune Scope Validation: Added validation warnings during Console Connect group selection that indicate how many devices in a selected group fall outside the configured Intune scope and will be skipped during deployment.
5. Updated Icons: Updated to reflect current Nerdio branding.
Migrate:
1. New RBAC Definition: Added two new RBAC definitions to support migrations, giving administrators more granular control over who can access and perform migration operations. Two new permission levels are available and should be used in combination with existing AVD Workspace or Windows 365 permissions: Read Only and Full Access.
2. Import/Export Migration Sources via CSV: Added the ability to import and export migration sources via CSV on the Migrate Sources page. Administrators can export the current list of hosts, edit user assignments directly in the file, and re-import to perform bulk updates, providing a convenient alternative to running the discovery script on individual hosts.
3. Permissions Validation: Added upfront validation when initiating a Windows 365 migration to check for the required Group.ReadWrite.All permission. If the permission is missing, the migration will now halt immediately with a clear error message rather than failing mid-process.
Settings:
1. Update Azure Runbook Modules: Added the ability to update selected or all Azure Runbook modules to their latest version directly from the Scripted Actions settings page, simplifying module maintenance across your environment.
2. View Egress Path Status: Added an Egress Path status to the Linked Networks settings page that displays the identified method used for routing internet traffic for each network, allowing quick identification of any networks still relying on legacy default outbound access.
REST API:
1. List Linked Mailboxes and WebHooks: Added new endpoints to retrieve a list of linked mailboxes and a list of linked webhooks.
2. Manage Notifications: Added a new endpoint for managing notifications.
3. Enable/Disable Console Connect Regions: Added new endpoints to enable or disable specific Console Connect regions.
Installer Now Uses Cert-Based Auth: New installations of Nerdio Manager now use certificate-based authentication for App Registrations by default, replacing client secrets with a more secure authentication method.
Display UPN: The user's UPN is now displayed beneath the display name in the upper-right corner, making it easier to identify the user context of the current session.

AVD

Host Pools:
1. New name for Backup and Recovery: The Backup and Recovery tab within host pool settings has been renamed to Business Continuity, and the Disaster Recovery tab has been renamed to Multi-Region Setup to better reflect their functionality.
2. Managed Identities Support for Host Pools: Administrators can now select User Assigned Managed Identities directly within the Virtual Machine Settings tab of a host pool for enhanced security and identity management.
3. Directory Change Support: Changing directory types within the host pool Directory settings tab is now supported.
Auto-Scale:
1. Ability to Configure Default Behavior for Auto-Heal: Auto-heal will now restart the recovery chain of actions after a session host has experienced an issue following 2 hours of being healthy and available. A new advanced application configuration setting has been added to change this default behavior: AutoScale:AutoHealRecoveryChainRefreshIntervalInHours
2. Auto-Shrink Supports Hibernated VMs: Expanded the logic used for personal host pool auto-shrink to account for hibernated VMs.
Azure Files Settings Refresh: The Azure Files settings experience has been redesigned with a tabbed layout, making it easier to navigate and manage configurations.
FSLogix Reset: Changed the default option selected and added a new option, Archive and delete after 30 days, when modifying existing FSLogix profiles.

Device & App Management

Scripted Sequences:
1. Support for Scripted Actions: Existing Scripted Actions (Windows) may now be added as a task within a Scripted Sequence. Changes to the source script are automatically propagated to the sequence.
2. Cross-Tenant Support: AVD and Intune devices located in linked Intune tenants may now have scripted sequences deployed to them, simplifying the management of Intune devices across a distributed management estate.
  
  Note: Native Intune applications are not supported with Scripted Sequences.
3. Task Worker Enhancements:
  1. Task Worker deployment no longer requires individual scripts and groups per device.
  2. Pagination has been added to the Scripted Sequences Executions page and all Task Worker Analytics pages.
  3. A tasks tab has been added for Task Worker Analytics, providing extensive reporting on the progress of tasks.
  4. A refresh button has been added for Task Worker Analytics, allowing data to be updated on demand.
Unified App Management:
- Nutanix Support: AVD Hybrid on Nutanix environments now support the deployment of applications via policies and ad hoc using the session host context menu.
- ShellApps Cache Efficiency: The ShellApps cache is now cleared on target desktops on a 7-day rolling schedule to avoid potential storage issues.
- Search by Application IDs: Application IDs can now be searched for and selected when creating application groups.

Observability & AI

Search:
1. Context-Based Search: The search function now focuses on key objects during search operations. Searching for a user or a device/endpoint will focus the results to show all results for that resource.
2. Expanded Search: The search function now pulls all potential results from all Insights data ingested into Nerdio Manager.
3. Settings Search: Searching and selecting a Settings option now navigates directly to the corresponding settings, which are temporarily highlighted.
Nerdio Manager Copilot:
1. Ability to Select AI Model with Nerdio Manager Copilot: Added the ability for users to select which AI model to use when configuring Nerdio Manager Copilot.
2. Private Endpoint Support: Users can now deploy Nerdio Manager Copilot with private endpoints.
Real Time Insights:
1. Auto-update Support for Insights Worker: Nerdio Manager now supports auto-update of the Insights Worker (on-device script that collects and sends data used for Real-Time Insights). As the NME version updates, a backend process will automatically update all endpoints with the latest worker.
2. Configurable Log Directory: Added support for a configurable log data directory.
Cost & Efficiency Insights:
1. Support for Custom Cost Groups: Within User Cost Attribution, you can now create custom groups of users. Specific sets of users can be grouped and charged back.
2. Navigate Directly to Settings: When browsing Operational Efficiency recommendations, Nerdio Manager will now redirect users directly to the area of the product where changes can be made.
3. Hide Selected Recommendations: Users can now hide specific recommendations from the Operational Efficiency page, allowing them to focus the view on only the recommendations they want to see.
Nerdio Modeler Now Supports GPU SKUs: Administrators and prospects can now select a GPU workload type in the Modeler (in-product and online) that surfaces GPU-enabled Azure VM SKUs as the recommended compute options, with contextual guidance on image and driver requirements.
Intune Insights App Metering (Private Preview): Introduced a new App Metering feature that allows administrators to review the true usage of applications for in-scope devices within their organization. Review metrics on a per-application basis and drill down into usage details to identify unused applications for license reclamation.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Deployment: Intune-Only Deployment Path: Resolved an issue where customers who experienced issues deploying Intune as a standalone option during initial NME setup can now do so without being required to enable AVD. This resolves onboarding blockers for Windows 365 and physical endpoint environments with no AVD use case.
- Windows 365 Migration: Fixed an issue where upfront validation when initiating a Windows 365 migration to check for the required Group.ReadWrite.All permission was not halting the migration immediately when missing. The migration will now halt with a clear error message rather than failing mid-process.
- Migrate:
  - Domain Name Discovery: Resolved an issue in the migration domain join discovery process where VMs could incorrectly report "The VM is domain joined but the domain name could not be determined." This condition is now properly detected and handled.
  - UI Issue Due to Long UPNs: Fixed a migration wizard UI issue where long UPNs could break layout rendering. Display behavior has been corrected for consistent formatting.
AVD:
- Azure NetApp Files:
  - Network Features Not Reflected: Fixed an issue where changes to the Network Features setting within Azure were not being reflected correctly in Nerdio Manager.
  - Storage Account Linking Issue: Resolved an issue that may have caused an error when linking an Azure NetApp Files storage account to Nerdio Manager when an Azure Policy related to locations was active.
- Desktop Images:
  - Unable to Import v6 SKUs: Resolved an issue that prevented new Azure VM v6 SKU types from being imported as a desktop image to Nerdio Manager.
  - Image Stuck in Deleted State: Resolved an issue where a desktop image was kept in a deleted state if using the Refresh image from Azure Marketplace option and a failure occurred during the reimage.
  - Applications Missing: Resolved an issue where application installations may not have been retried in some scenarios if a failure occurred during the imaging process.
  - Image Powers-On Unexpectedly: Resolved an issue where a desktop image was powered on after Set as image was completed.
  - API Error when Deleting Image: Resolved an issue that may have caused an API version error to appear when deleting a desktop image.
  - OS Disk Optimization Not Applied: Resolved an issue where the OS disk optimization configuration was not being applied as expected when reimaging a desktop image.
- Host Pools:
  - User-Assigned Managed Identity Removed Unexpectedly: Resolved an issue where a user-assigned managed identity was removed from session hosts when the Set Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) to automatically update configuration was enabled and applied in the host pool settings.
  - Application Security Group (ASG) Not Being Applied: Resolved an issue that prevented ASGs from being applied to session hosts' network interface card (NIC) when selected in the host pool virtual machine settings.
  - Blank Page via Breadcrumbs: Resolved an issue where clicking on a host pool breadcrumb link caused a blank page to appear.
  - Session Host Deletion: Resolved an issue where session hosts may not have been deleted correctly.
  - Nutanix Categories Display Issue: Fixed an issue where Nutanix Categories were not appearing in complete format within the selector when creating session hosts.
  - AVD Classic Host Pools Not Shown: Resolved an issue that prevented certain AVD Classic host pool pages from being shown.
- Auto-Scale:
  - Rolling Drain Mode: Resolved an error that may have appeared during the Rolling Drain Mode task when a session host was excluded from Auto-scale.
  - Column Inconsistency: Improved the consistency of information displayed in the Auto-scale column on the host pool list page.
- FSLogix Script Enhancement: Enhanced the FSLogix installation script to account for empty string values in the registry key.
Device & App Management:
- Unified App Management:
  - 'Show Favorites Only' Always Enabled: Fixed an issue where the option to Show favorites only in the app deployment popup was always enabled. The option is now disabled by default and its state is remembered across sessions on a per user basis.
  - Restart of In Progress Deploys Results in State Issues: Resolved an issue where application deployment tasks are now blocked from manual restart actions until the status of the previous task has been reported to Nerdio Manager, as manually restarting in-progress tasks may result in unexpected results.
  - 'Source Add' Failures Not Captured: Fixed an issue where 'Source Add' failures for Winget repositories were not being included in the Apps manager log file.
  - Blank Host Pool Names: Resolved an issue where host pool names may appear as blank in the deployment selection drop down, even when a friendly name has been set.
Observability & AI:
- Executive Insights:
  - Custom RBAC Issue: Resolved an issue where a custom RBAC role with Insights permissions would not grant access to Executive Insights unless it was individually specified. Users with a custom RBAC role with scope set to Any can now access Executive Insights and perform activities for both Read Only and Full Access modes.
  - NME License Cost Handling Error: Resolved an issue where an assumption-based estimate for NME license cost was interpreted as an error. Executive Insights now displays a yellow warning in the Nerdio Manager ROI chart when NME license costs are not available for the calculation.
  - Days Without Data: Fixed an issue where Nerdio Manager displayed the entire month in Executive Insights graphs, including days with no data, resulting in a flat line for data yet to be ingested. Only days where data has been ingested are now shown.
- 'Invalid Date' Error in Insights Tooltips: Resolved an issue where some Insights graph tooltips displayed 'Invalid Date' in the date entry. Tooltips now display the correct date.
- Removed File Shares Appearing in Health Insights: Resolved an issue where file shares that had been removed from use were still appearing in Nerdio Insights storage health dashboard graphs. Removed file shares no longer appear once they are removed from use.
- FSLogix Profile Details Not Populating: Resolved a logic issue in the Collect FSLogix Profiles Information task for VHD Location processing that could prevent information from being collected properly within AVD Insights.
- Inaccurate Pricing for Windows 365 (non-US) in Advisor: Resolved an issue where Windows 365 pricing for non-US countries was incorrectly calculated using a currency conversion from USD prices. Advisor now uses Microsoft's fixed pricing on a per-tenant country basis.

Known issues and limitations

Intune Insights OS and Patch Status showing as ‘Unknown’: Devices may fail to report the OS and patch versions correctly, resulting in an unknown status being displayed. This is planned for resolution.
Azure Files "Smart" Blob access tier: Azure Files storage accounts with the "Smart" blob access tier set as the default will not appear in Nerdio Manager. We will support this access tier in an upcoming release.
Console Connect Regions: Enabling or changing Console Connect regions may result in an error in the 8.0 Public Preview release. Previous versions are not impacted. This will be resolved in the upcoming GA release.

v7.7.4 GA (Release date May 21, 2026)

This is a hotfix release containing all of the items in v7.7.3, plus the following items.

Resolved Issues

AVD:
- Auto-scale error: Resolved an issue where Core edition customers may experience Auto-scale process failures due to the error Stopped disk type expected.
- FSLogix and Azure Files Invalid Format Error: Resolved an issue where the error One of the identified items was in an invalid format may appear in some situations depending on the storage account configuration.
Device & App Management:
- UAM: Winget error: Resolved an issue introduced by Windows KB5089549. The following error may be observed when deploying Winget applications from a private repository: System.Exception: Failed action detected.

v7.7.3 GA (Release date May 12, 2026)

This is a hotfix release containing all of the items in v7.7.2, plus the following items.

Resolved Issues

Platform:
- Notification errors:
  - Resolved an issue where non-AVD Premium customers may see an error in Nerdio Manager indicating that portal notifications are not supported for non-AVD Premium versions.
  - Fixed an issue where users may see a Forbidden: READ AdminPortalNotification error when logging into Nerdio Manager.
- Custom Views: Reversed a change introduced in 7.7 that prohibited duplicate custom view names. Custom views with duplicate names are now supported.
AVD:
- Azure Local: Fixed an issue where cloning an Azure Local pool may result in the Nerdio Manager console displaying an error for all pools and may cause Nerdio Manager to fail to complete various background operations.
Device & App Management:
- UAM: Resolved an issue where SCCM import tasks may fail for large applications with the error The remote server returned an error: (411) Length Required.

v7.7.2 GA (Release date May 4, 2026)

This is a hotfix release containing all of the items in v7.7.1, plus the following items.

Resolved Issues

AVD:
- Nutanix AHV:
  - Error message: Resolved an issue causing a "Nutanix host not found" error to appear in some scenarios.
  - Provisioning cleanup: Deleted and sanitized sensitive files within a Nutanix session host after provisioning.
Observability & AI:
- Intune Insights: Fixed an issue where the SyncConfigPoliciesJob synchronization action may fail, causing all synchronization jobs to fail.

v7.7.1 GA (Release date April 21, 2026)

Features

Platform

Installer:
1. Updated Installer UI.
2. Reduced permissions when deploying Nerdio Manager: Replaced Group.Read.All with GroupMember.Read.All.
3. Allowed selection of an existing virtual network when enabling private endpoints during installation.
REST API: Updated the RBAC role assignment API to support incremental updates via POST /api/v1/users-and-roles/assignment/{objectId}/avd-workspaces.

AVD

Additional Nutanix Host Pool Settings: Added support for additional host pool settings when configuring Nutanix host pools, including:
- RDP
- Session Time Limits

Resolved Issues

AVD:
- Blank column for Last User Login: Fixed an issue where the Last User Login column may have been blank for Azure cloud host pools.
- Error in Self-Service Portal: Resolved an issue with a "no associated VM object in subscription" error appearing when viewing the Self-Service Portal.
- Incorrect GPU extension: Fixed an issue where the correct AMD extension was not being used when deploying session hosts with the NVadsV710v5 SKU.
Device & App Management:
- Intune Devices:
  - Resolved an issue where excluded application assignments were incorrectly shown as pending in the individual device properties popup.
  - Fixed an issue where editing device properties such as group membership did not include validation, which could lead to accidental changes. Device changes must now be explicitly saved.
  - Fixed an issue where devices may occasionally report successful removal from Entra, however the device record would still exist.
- Intune Policies: Resolved an issue where policy names could no longer be clicked directly to edit. Policy names should now be edited from the policy edit screen only.
- Intune policy device cache timeout: Fixed an issue where the Intune policy cache feature caused high SQL usage, leading to timeouts in large environments.
- Intune Permissions: Resolved an issue where Nerdio Manager may incorrectly remove core application permissions granted to the application when editing the Intune permissions configuration, specifically User.Read.All and Application.Read.All.
- UAM: Hosts are removed from Drain Mode by Deployment Policy: Fixed an issue where, when running a deployment policy with the Drain Mode (AVD) option set to Enabled, the task may incorrectly disable drain mode on existing drained hosts.
- UAM: Install failing due to JsonSerializationException: Resolved an issue where application deployments to a desktop image may fail with the error "Cannot deserialize the current JSON object".
Observability & AI:
- Real-Time Insights logging location: Fixed an issue where the error logging location for Real-Time Insights has been relocated to be consistent with other Nerdio error logs: C:\Program Files\NerdioMonitoring\Logs.

v7.7.0 Preview (Release date April 6, 2026)

Announcements

AVD Hybrid support on Nutanix AHV is now available in Private Preview: Please contact your Nerdio account team if you are interested in trying this new feature.
Windows 365 Cloud Apps is now supported! Windows 365 customers can now configure, deploy, and manage Cloud Apps directly from Nerdio Manager.
Nerdio Manager Copilot has been completely refactored! This release brings a new UI and significantly streamlined deployment, now requiring only a single Azure OpenAI service resource with a ~30 second deployment time. New capabilities include:
- Zero idle costs
- GPT-5 mini support
- Multiple chat support
- Saved user memories
- Tool support: search NME KB, read articles, and generate PowerShell scripts/KQL queries
Terraform-based installation for Nerdio Manager is now available in Private Preview! Contact your Nerdio account team if you're interested in trying this feature and providing early feedback on the Infrastructure-as-Code install experience.

Features

Platform

Migrate now supports snapshot management: Added a new option to create a snapshot of the source VM before migrating. Snapshots can optionally be configured to expire and be automatically deleted after a specified period.
Ability to migrate to a different resource group: When migrating a VM to AVD, you can now move it to a different resource group within the same subscription.
Ability to change VM SKU during migration: Added support for changing the VM SKU as part of the migration process.
New REST API endpoints:
- Endpoint for associating an existing AVD session host to Nerdio Manager.
- Endpoint for controlling drain mode on an AVD session host.
- Endpoint to unlink an Azure Virtual Network from Nerdio Manager.
- Endpoint to retrieve the Console Connect session URL for Intune-managed devices.
Streamlined support logs: Added an option to package and send relevant logs to Nerdio Support directly from Settings > Environment > Nerdio > Support.
Nerdio Manager performance improvements: Delivered multiple performance improvements across SQL operations, the end-user self-service portal, Auto-scale configuration loading, Azure resource linking, and more.

AVD

Self-service portal supports Azure Local: The end-user self-service portal now supports Azure Local host pools.
New wizard for creating Azure Files: Introduced a wizard-based approach to streamline the Azure Files creation process.
VM setting now configurable as profile: Virtual Machine settings for AVD host pools can now be configured as a profile.
Pre-staging now supports percentage-based configuration: When configuring Auto-scale, the pre-stage hosts option has been enhanced to support a percentage-based allocation for the number of hosts to have ready.
New redirectlocation RDP settings: Added the ability to configure the redirectlocation setting within host pool RDP settings.

Device & App Management

Ability to schedule Intune policy changes after approval: Policy change requests can now be scheduled by the requestor after approval.
Change requestor now implements the change: Changes are now implemented by the requester after approval, ensuring the requester retains control of when a change is implemented.
AVD support for Scripted Sequences: Scripted Sequences can now be deployed directly to AVD session hosts and host pools, with no requirement for these devices to be Intune enrolled.

Note: Unlike Intune-managed devices, which rely on a scheduled task for periodic (every 15 minutes) check-in and execution, Scripted Sequences deployed to AVD session hosts are executed on-demand and do not require a scheduled task.
View task worker status and analytics for Scripted Sequences: The status and analytics of task workers (PowerShell scripts that execute as a scheduled task on Intune-managed devices) can now be viewed within Nerdio Manager.
Task worker now auto-updates: The task worker used by Scripted Sequences for Intune-managed devices can now auto-update without requiring Intune platform scripts to be deployed to facilitate the update.
UAM compliance status now visible on host pool page: The UAM compliance status of AVD session hosts within a host pool can now be reviewed from the host pool properties page, providing better visibility into the status of applications.
New UAM deployment policies disabled by default: New policies are now created in a disabled state by default (and can be enabled during the creation process). This change helps prevent policy actions from starting inadvertently.
Ability to clone UAM deployment policies: Existing deployment policies can now be cloned and used to create new policies.
Bulk select SCCM application imports: SCCM application imports now allow for multiple file selection during the import process, simplifying the extraction of SCCM applications.
Bulk actions for Shell Apps: Bulk actions for delete, publish, and unpublish are now available to simplify the administration of Shell Apps.
Versioning enhancements for UAM applications: You can now clone the installer for private applications (either in the current version or to a new version). Cloned versions retain any custom arguments.

Observability & AI

New recommendations added to Operational Efficiency: Additional NME recommendations have been factored into Operational Efficiency, including enabling Intune Insights, Auto-scale Insights, Azure Capacity Extender, Console Connect, and more.
Ability to create cost groups within User Cost Attribution: You can now group users within an organization (by department, project, etc.) and calculate costs by group.
Use specified currency for Executive Insights: Executive Insights now displays all costs and savings values in the currency selected within Settings > Environment > Nerdio > Currency.
Reset FSLogix profiles directly from AVD Insights: FSLogix profiles can now be reset directly from Insights > Azure Virtual Desktop > FSLogix.
Nerdio Advisor Recommendations redesign: The Recommendations page within Nerdio Advisor has been redesigned. The dashboard now displays only active recommendations as tiles, and selecting a tile provides additional details.
Azure Local support with AVD Insights: AVD Insights now displays relevant performance metrics for Azure Local clusters, including CPU, memory, networking, and data usage.
User logon details now available with Real-time Insights: Real-time insights now monitors and tracks user logon times, logon time breakdown, and logon history.

Resolved Issues

Console Connect:
- Issue where Nerdio Manager was unable to properly detect agent installation failures.
- Issue where agent installation could be initiated multiple times for a single device.
- Issue where agent installation was initiated before AVD session host provisioning was complete.
- Issue where deployment and license statistics did not properly load.
- Updated token refresh logic to resolve “Cannot get Console Connect access token from refresh token.” issue.
Logs date filtering issue: Resolved an issue where date filtering displayed an end date offset by +1 day.
Identifying user assignment for migration fails: Improved the reliability of user assignment in complex environments by using UserPrincipalName as the unique identifier.
Private endpoint for optional components limited: Previously, private endpoints were only available for optional components (WinGet, Intune Insights, Real-Time Insights, and Nerdio Manager Copilot) when the NME App Service was configured for both private endpoints and VNet integration. Updated this requirement so that only VNet integration is required.
Unable to link M365 mailbox for Notifications: Fixed an issue preventing some customers from linking an M365 mailbox for sending notifications.
Error: Fixed an issue with invalid JSON identifying "Unexpected token T" in API calls where the rightmost path contained one or more period characters. Adding a trailing slash "/" resolves the error. This fix also applies to Nerdio Manager REST API calls.
Addressed CVE-2025-55247.
Removed deprecated images: Removed images that are no longer available from the Azure Compute Gallery from the dropdown list when creating a new Desktop Image.
Cloning host pools with Azure Capacity Extender: Fixed an issue where host pools with an Azure Capacity Extender configuration may not have been able to be cloned.
Auto-scale would not render for Azure NetApp Files: Fixed an issue where the Auto-scale configuration page would not appear for capacity pools using the flexible service level tier.
Unable to search for Intune apps with hyphenated names: Fixed an issue where creating an App Group and searching for Intune apps with hyphens in their names returned no results unless the apps were added to Favorites.
Collect User Experience History causing Intune throttling: Added new app service settings to allow customers to modify the collection interval to reduce potential API throttling issues. Please review the IntuneUxHistory app service options article for details.
Incorrect costs shown in Executive Insights: Fixed an issue where Executive Insights could display incorrect Azure costs due to an API logic issue.
Disabling User Cost Attribution could remove associated storage accounts: Fixed an issue where disabling User Cost Attribution could remove an associated storage account even when the option to keep the storage account was selected.

Known Issues and Limitations

Migrate: Migrating to Windows 365 Enterprise requires that the 'Intune Applications and App Policies' permission is set to 'Manage' for the Intune tenant where the cloud PC will reside. This can be configured under Settings > Environment > Integrations > Intune > Configuration. Alternatively, customers can manually add the Group.ReadWrite.All (delegated) permission to the NME App registration.

v7.6.4 GA (Release date April 8, 2026)

This is a hotfix release containing all of the items in v7.6.3, plus the following items.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Console Connect: Updated token refresh logic to resolve “Cannot get Console Connect access token from refresh token.” issue.

v7.6.3 GA (Release date March 16, 2026)

This is a hotfix release containing all of the items in v7.6.2, plus the following items.

Features

AVD

Updated FSLogix Agent to 26.01 CU1 (v3.26.126.19110).

Resolved issues

Device & App Management:
- UAM: "Install group not found" error - Retries have been added to the device assignment process to mitigate the slow responses observed from the Azure API to group updates. Additional details added to the logging process.
- Intune: AVD policy compliance - Resolved an issue that caused both required and available applications to be audited when applying the AVD host pool policy compliance setting All Intune policies, leading to a failure to release hosts from drain mode if all apps had not been installed.
- Intune Integration: Policy reports - The Total groups column has been removed to reduce the policy processing API overhead in large environments.
Observability & AI:
- Exec Insights - Resolved an issue that could cause errors when calculating costs for 50+ subscriptions.
- Windows 365 Insights - Fixed an issue that caused the Max concurrent sessions and Average duration charts to have missing or misaligned data.
- Intune Insights - Fixed an issue that caused some apps to fail to appear in the device details page when queried.

v7.6.2 GA (Release date March 3, 2026)

This is a GA release that contains all of the items in v7.6.1, plus the following items:

Announcements

Notice of EOM/EOL for Sepago Integration. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise's integration with Sepago Azure Monitor for AVD will reach End of Maintenance (no further development updates) on April 1, 2026, and End of Life (EoL) on December 31, 2026. As of the 7.6 GA release, you'll no longer be able to set up a new Sepago integration; existing Sepago customers can continue to use their current integration until EoL. We recommend that existing Sepago customers migrate their AVD monitoring and analytics to Nerdio Insights.

For details, see 2026-04-01 Notice of End of Maintenance (EoM) and End of Life (EoL) for Sepago Integration.

Features

Platform

Migrate: Migration batch size are now configurable when migrating to Windows 365. Previously, migrations were processed in fixed batches of 5 devices. Validate and test appropriate values before using in production.
Azure Network Outbound Connectivity Status: In preparation for Azure feature update: Default behavior for newly created virtual networks will be private, you can now view outbound connectivity status for Linked Networks at Settings > Environment > Azure.

AVD

Desktop Image: Changed the new Sysprep option to a drop-down selector.
User Sessions: Optimized the User Sessions page to improve loading for organizations with a large number of sessions.
Host Pool: The Auto-scale history page has been optimized and will also now show a warning if the data being requested is likely to take a long time to populate.This applies when using using extended custom date ranges.
Host Pool:Updated the NvidiaGpuDriverWindows extension used to install the GPU drivers when enabled in the host pool.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Install: Resolved an install error when the user has access to multiple subscriptions and tenants.
- Install: The initial install script again prompts users at the end to return to the web app to continue and complete the installation process.
- Install: Resolved an issue accessing key vaults which could result in the error "Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed."
- Rollback: Resolved issues rolling back to 7.5.
AVD:
- Host Pool: Fixed an issue that caused session host creation to fail in the non-identity Azure tenant.
- Host Pool: Fixed an issue that caused specific host pool type combinations to fail to appear within the host pool list.
- Host Pool: Fixed an issue where the error message "Preference VM sizes are empty" could appear when cloning host pools.
- Host Pool: Fixed an issue where host pools with hibernation enabled could sometimes fail to create session hosts.
- Azure Local: Fixed an issue where a scheduled re-image task for host pools could sometimes appear as null.
- Azure NetApp Files: The Active Directory site name is now a required field when creating an Azure NetApp Files storage account.
Device & App Management:
- Intune Integration: Scale optimizations – Customers with large Intune managed environments observed increased "too many requests" error messages with the Nerdio Manager 7.5 release. The query process has now been optimized.
- Intune Integration: Processing errors – Resolved an issue where user names containing apostrophes were not correctly processed during API queries, leading to errors when returning their details.
- Intune Integration: AVD device compliance – Resolved an issue that caused devices that had no Intune managed applications assigned to be marked as non-compliant and not exit drain mode as a result.
- Windows 365 : Cloud PC Image uploads – When uploading a custom image to Windows 365, the value of enableSingleSignOn reverted to False. The existing value is now respected.

Known issues and limitations

Observability & AI:
- Intune Insights – In some limited circumstances the All apps list does not populate for certain Intune-connected devices.
- Executive Insights – Some customers with 50 or more subscriptions have reported data collection issues.

v7.6.0 Preview (Release date February 12, 2026)

Announcements

Console Connect is now GA! The default license limit has also been increased from 500 to 5,000.
Please contact support if you require additional devices.
Intune Cross-Tenant Support is now available in Public Preview! You can now link, view, and manage additional Intune tenants from a single Nerdio Manager instance.
Real-Time Insights now supports physical endpoints! Intune-managed Windows physical endpoints are now supported with Real-Time Insights. Up to 20,000 endpoints polling every two minutes (default) or 10,000 endpoints polling every one minute are supported with this release.

Features

Platform

Migrate: Enabled direct migration of Azure VMs to Windows 365 Cloud PCs via the Migration Sources page, removing the need for intermediate image capture steps.
Migrate: Improved the migration user experience (UX) for moving AVD Personal hosts to Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PCs.
High Availability: Public preview for adding the ability to generate infrastructure-as-code scripts for deploying a High Availability (HA) setup across multiple Azure regions. You can configure this feature under Settings > Environment > Nerdio > Nerdio Manager Resilience.
RBAC: Introduced a new custom RBAC role for Read-Only Logging. This grants access to logging details without providing permission to view or edit other areas of the product.
Logs: Single job details can now be exported directly to JSON or CSV formats for external analysis.
Logs: Added task duration metrics to the logging page for improved performance auditing.
REST API: Added a new API endpoint to programmatically enable or disable Console Connect for host pools.
UI: Applied the new UI design to the Applications menu and associated pages.
Console Connect: Added an API to retrieve the Console Connect session URL, enabling integration with custom tooling.

AVD

Desktop Image: When creating or modifying an image, you now have the option to initiate Sysprep in System context or User context. By default, Sysprep runs in System context. If you uncheck the Run Sysprep as System setting, Sysprep will run in User context.
Desktop Image: When creating or modifying an image, you now have the option to deploy applications and scripted actions to either the source image or the cloned image.
Auto-scale: Auto-heal recovery actions will now take precedence over pre-stage scale-in delay. Ensure that your recovery actions and pre-stage configurations are set accordingly.
Host Pool Profile: Added support for Azure Capacity Extender profiles to better manage capacity at scale.
Host Pool Profile: The Set all hosts to running OS disk type option is now always visible in Auto-scale profiles.

Note: This option will only apply if the stopped/running disk types differ.
Host Pool: Consolidated the Dynamic and Static host pool tabs into a single Host Pools tab and added Auto-scale filters. Hybrid pools retain their own tab.
Host Pool: Application Security Groups (ASGs) can now be associated with session host Network Interface Cards (NICs) directly from the Host Pool Virtual Machine settings tab.
Host Pool: Enhanced the onboarding process to allow bulk import of existing AVD host pools into Nerdio Manager.
Host Pool: Added support for Ephemeral OS Disks on v6 VM SKUs.
Host Pool: Added support for Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) on Confidential Computing VMs.
Host Pool: Administrators can now change the assignment type for single-session personal host pools directly within the host pool AVD settings tab.
Host Pool: When running Scripted Actions, you can now opt to not enable Drain Mode.

Note: Hosts will still be set to drain mode if Messaging is enabled.
Host Pool: Enhanced task logging to provide better visibility into VM extensions and scripts during the imaging process.
Host Pool: Cloning a host pool now automatically includes the associated Scripted Actions.
Azure NetApp Files: Streamlined the creation of ANF storage accounts with a new wizard.
Azure NetApp Files: Added support for linking flexible service level capacity pools.
Updated Microsoft Agents
1. AVD Agent: v1.0.12684.400
2. FSLogix Agent: 26.01 (v3.26.102.18413)

Device & App Management

Intune: Nerdio Manager can now automatically sign PowerShell scripts delivered via Intune using a specified trusted certificate.
Intune: Consolidated duplicate "Warning" and "High" alert conditions into a single configurable condition to reduce complexity.
Scripted Sequences: Sequences, task groups, and tasks can now be cloned for faster iteration and testing.
UAM: Added Azure Front Door support for Shell Apps. Repositories can now use a CDN to distribute global content, reducing latency for distributed users.
UAM: Added a "Bulk Deploy Apps" action for multi-selected session hosts.
UAM: Added the ability to clone App Groups, including all group memberships.
Windows 365: Connection status is now visible directly on the All Devices and Cloud PC details pages.

Observability & AI

Real-Time Insights: Added "Last Mile" network statistics for physical endpoints to troubleshoot local connectivity issues.
Real-Time Insights: Alerts now include granular data such as threshold value, trigger value, and last observed value.
Real-Time Insights: The setup wizard now displays the estimated costs for the required App Service Plan and SQL Database.
Real-Time Insights: Added support for using pre-existing SQL Servers and Databases during deployment.
Real-Time Insights: You can now trigger the uninstallation of the Real-Time Insights worker from Nerdio Manager.
Health Insights: Users can now customize alert thresholds on the health dashboard to match specific company requirements.
Executive Insights: The dashboard now clearly displays the date range for the data currently in view.
Intune Insights: Reports now correctly recognize devices running Windows Hot Patch versions.
Modeler: Added Japanese Yen (¥) support for pricing calculations (needs to be enabled first within Settings > Nerdio > Currency). If native costs are unavailable from Azure, conversion rates are applied automatically.
Intune Insights: Added new troubleshooting page under Settings > Environment > Integrations > Intune > Intune Insights > Troubleshoot Insights to assist with deployment issues.

Resolved Issues

Platform:
- Console Connect: Resolved an installation error that displayed the message "We already have an install command for this VM".
- Console Connect: Fixed an issue where connecting to a user session resulted in an "Invalid Session Key" error.
- Linked Subscriptions: Azure Subscriptions removed outside of Nerdio Manager can now be cleaned up gracefully via the Linked Subscription settings.
- Logs: Fixed an issue where filtering logs by specific users did not return the expected results.
- UI: Restored pagination controls to the Tasks and Logs pages
- UI: Resolved a display issue in Firefox where the Add desktop image from library button was not visible.
- UI: Fixed inconsistent filtering behavior when navigating between pages using breadcrumb links.
- Error: Fixed an error message about invalid JSON identifying "Unexpected token 'T'" in API calls. This was related to API calls where the rightmost path contained a period character "." Adding a trailing slash "/" corrected the error. This may also impact calls to Nerdio Manager Rest APIs and is also resolved by adding a trailing slash "/" to these API calls.
- Updater: After upgrading Nerdio Manager, some environments may display “Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.” Reapplying the latest update will resolve this issue.
AVD:
- Auto-scale: Fixed a logic error where Auto-scale could create duplicate session hosts under specific configurations.
- Auto-scale: Fixed an “Out of memory” error that could occur during the host pool auto-scale process for personal host pools with auto-shrink enabled.
- Host Pool: When disabling "Use multiple schedules” in the Auto-scale page within the pre-stage options, the first scheduled configuration will be retained.
- Host Pool: Fixed a failure where a session host would not join AVD if a Scripted Action failed.
- Host Pool: Fixed an issue where Auto-scale could inadvertently change the disk performance tier when switching disk types (HDD<>SSD).
- Host Pool: Custom Script Extensions used for VM post-configurations will now utilize the same versions when applying host pool settings.
- Profiles: Fixed an issue where clicking on a profile name within the assignments tab in the profiles management page did not direct you to the profile correctly.
- Azure Local: Fixed an issue where the Desktop Image version was missing when viewing session hosts.
- Azure Local: Fixed an issue where the GPU-P option was enabled by default when creating new hybrid host pools.
- Azure Files: Optimized the Azure Files page to decrease the loading time for large-scale environments.
- Azure NetApp Files: Fixed an issue where Auto-scale may have failed for Azure NetApp Files because the Azure location for the resource was not relayed.
Device & App Management:
- Scripted Sequences: Added a confirmation prompt when navigating away from an unsaved sequence.
- UAM: Winget application tooltips now display the specific version and GUID.
- UAM: Winget search now supports searching by App ID (format: name.name).
- UAM: Fixed an issue where App Attach packages larger than 6GB would return a "Cancelled" status.
- UAM: Added a toggle to disable "Run As Session Credentials" for SCCM imports to aid in troubleshooting
  
  Note: To disable this feature, set the SccmConfiguration:UseSessionConfigWithRunAsCred app service setting to False.
Observability & AI:
- Advisor: Fixed an issue where disk savings were excluded from Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculations.
- AVD Insights: Fixed a bug where non-existent sessions appeared in the Session Duration table.
- Intune Insights – Slow startup of the application was noted on smaller App service SKUs. The startup has been improved to the order of seconds rather than minutes.

Known Issues and Limitations

Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools of type "RemoteApp + Pooled" configured with a Max Session Limit of 1 may not appear in the host pool list.
Intune: Cross-Tenant support (Public Preview):
- Permissions must be manually assigned to the secondary tenant service principal.
- Intune User Operating Mode is not supported for secondary tenants.
- Policy propagation across tenants is not currently supported.
- The Intune Insights feature is not currently supported for secondary tenants.
- An Intune Service Account may not currently be linked to secondary tenants.
- Running a Scripted Action against secondary tenant Windows 365 devices is not currently supported.
- Signing Intune scripts via Nerdio Manager is currently only supported for the primary tenant.
- AVD to Windows 365 migration is not supported for secondary tenants or cross—tenant scenarios.
Windows 365: The connection status API may intermittently fail, causing status details to be missing from the console.
Migrations: Windows 365 migrations encounter an error when migrating in a secondary EntraID and Intune tenant.

v7.5.5 GA (Release date February 6, 2026)

Resolved issues

Observability & AI:
- A new version of the UCA package has been included, which fixes an issue introduced in v7.5.1, which caused incorrect results to be displayed for large environments due to cost fetching issues.
- Resolved an error in the Calculate Aggregated Costs action that caused the action to fail and retry continually.

v7.5.4 GA (Release date January 30, 2026)

Resolved issues

Platform:
- UI - Resolved an issue that could cause some menus to appear off the bottom of the screen and be unusable as a result.
Observability & AI:
- Intune: API call errors - Fixed an issue that, in rare cases, could cause the same policy results to be returned from different API calls, resulting in the log message "Error: An item with the same key has already been added."

v7.5.3 GA (Release date December 29, 2025)

Resolved issues

AVD:
- Azure Virtual Desktop: ControlUp – Implemented a workaround to prevent multiple error messages from appearing within the session host page views and blocking administrators from session host operations.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files – Fixed an issue within the script used to join Azure Files to Active Directory that better handles Organizational Unit (OU) paths and service account errors.
Device & App Management:
- UAM: Intune Deployment policies - Fixed an issue where group discovery errors could cause group creation and management activities to fail. This issue applied to UAM deployments to Intune devices and Scripted Sequences deployments to Intune devices.
- Scripted Sequences: Logging - The Scripted Sequences Endpoint Worker deployment process was not correctly logging its progress and status to the Nerdio Manager log. Logging for deployment, upgrade and command actions has been added for this feature to support troubleshooting activities.
Observability & AI:
- Sepago agent - A new version of the Sepago agent is included to resolve installation failures experienced by customers for desktops using marketplace images 24H2 or 25H2.50029.

v7.5.2 GA (Release date December 16, 2025)

This is a GA release that contains all the items in v7.5.1, plus the following items:

Features

Platform

Console Connect – Updated the Console Connect Data Protection Addendum (Exhibit C). An admin will need to review and re-accept if the agreement was originally accepted before October 30th, 2025.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Log Export – The CSV Export process now properly escapes special characters so they are displayed correctly in the output file.
AVD:
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local – Fixed an issue that caused linking an Azure Local network to Nerdio to fail when Nerdio tags were already applied to the resource.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: External Identities – Fixed an issue that caused users with external identities to have issues with the Self-Service portal.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pool – Fixed an issue that caused Azure Capacity Extender not to function properly in some scenarios when using CIS images.
- Desktop Images – The Windows 11 sysprep UAC issue introduced by the October update (KB5066835) is no longer reproducible with the December cumulative update (KB5071417). We will continue to improve resiliency in future releases by updating our sysprep process to run in user context.
Device & App Management:
- Scripted Sequences – Tasks can now be moved into and out of Task Groups, avoiding the need to delete and recreate tasks if they were not created in the correct location initially.
- Scripted Sequences – To avoid accidentally losing work, users are now asked for confirmation when navigating away from an unsaved sequence.
- Intune Compliance – Fixed an issue that could cause adding AVD hosts to fail if Intune compliance is enforced for AVD host pools, due to an API call error for Intune compliance status.

Known issues

Scripted Sequences: Endpoint Worker deployment – The scripted sequences feature requires the initial deployment of the Nerdio Manager Endpoint Worker. In some scenarios, the Endpoint Worker deployment process is failing to deploy the Intune platform script to the required devices. The script and associated temporary Entra group are then removed successfully. This issue is under investigation.
UAM: Intune Deployment policies - Group creation and management activities associated with UAM deployments to Intune devices or Scripted Sequences deployments to Intune devices may fail due to group discovery errors. This issue is under investigation.
Nerdio Manager UI – In some scenarios, dropdown or context menus may render partially off-screen near the bottom of the browser window, making some options inaccessible without resizing the window or adjusting the browser zoom level.

v7.5.1 Preview (Release date December 5, 2025)

Announcements

In v7.5.1, Scripted Actions move under a new Automation top-level menu, which also contains the new Scripted Sequences feature.

Features

Platform

Nerdio Migrate – Migration is now supported of Horizon Cloud on Azure or Citrix on Azure VMs into AVD personal host from linked resource groups.
UI - Updated UI has been applied across additional pages in Endpoints, Logging, Wizards, Costs, and Efficiency, including a new animation for in-progress tasks.
Nerdio Manager – Outbound HTTP(s) calls now use HTTP/2 when available, reducing NAT consumption by multiplexing multiple requests and responses over a single session.

AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop: Optimizations – We are continuing to implement various backend performance improvements to enhance the overall speed and efficiency to reduce loading times and increase task performance for many areas of the product, specifically for customers managing large-scale workloads.
- Auto-scale tasks: Tasks performance has been improved, and additional logging has been implemented to capture increased details of errors.
- Desktop Images: Improved loading of Azure Compute Gallery images across different pages and dropdown selectors.
Azure Virtual Desktop: External Identities – External Identities are now supported.
Enable the app service environment variable ADCache:IncludeGuestUsers if your external users are guest user types. For more information on this setting, see Advanced App Service configurations.
For more information on external identities and AVD, see the Microsoft Learn article Provide host pool access to external identities.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool – When integrating existing Azure Cloud or Azure Local host pools, the integration and auto-scale conversion process has been improved and simplified.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool – When modifying the Users and group assignments for host pools, the workflow has been streamlined to allow assignments without requiring filters.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-scale – Session hosts that are using ephemeral OS disks will be deactivated, instead of stopped when using rolling drain mode.

Device & App Management

Scripted Sequences (Public Preview) – Create and deploy complex, multi-step task sequences, with individual tasks being deployed quickly and respecting the defined Order of Operations. This initial release includes support for all Intune devices including Windows 365; future releases will expand this feature to include direct AVD support, automated remediation of new devices and sequence intelligence based on observed results.
For details, see Scripted Sequences.
Intune: External policy change tracking – Policy changes made outside of Nerdio Manager now report the UPN of the administrator who made the change, significantly enhancing change tracking activities. Additional permissions must be granted for this feature.
For details, see Enable and configure Intune.
Intune Policy Approval Workflow: Change logging – Policy change requests now retain the details of the requested change, allowing for detailed reviews and providing requesters with the ability to recover and resubmit their desired policy content changes.
Unified Application Management: Set number of synchronized apps – Applications synchronized from the public repository may now be configured with a maximum number of historic versions. Older versions beyond this limit are now automatically removed, reducing storage bloat and associated costs.
Unified Application Management: Shell Apps sorting – The main Shell Apps screen now supports sorting to simplify application discovery.
Intune Policy Approval Workflow: Enhanced filtering – Filters can now be used on the Approvals overview page for both the requestor and the approver.
Enforce Intune Compliance enhancements – The option to enforce all Intune policies for AVD session hosts to now includes enforcement of Intune managed applications. Hosts will not be released from drain mode until both Intune policies and applications are compliant.

Observability & AI

Real-Time Insights – Real-time metrics and telemetry data from AVD and Windows 365 endpoints are now viewable through a new Real-Time Insights dashboard in Nerdio Manager. Real-Time Insights provides live monitoring (subject to a configurable polling interval) of CPU, memory, disk, and GPU usage, and all running applications. Configurable alert thresholds provide timely warnings of performance issues.
For details, see Insights: Real-Time.
Executive Insights – An overall view of all Desktop-as-a-service resources aimed at the C-Suite level of an organization, the Executive Insights dashboard shows the actual costs of running DaaS as well as the savings of using Nerdio and the overall return on investment. It also displays overall metrics for the whole estate, including assigned, active, and concurrent users.
For details, see Insights: Executive.
Operational Efficiency Insights - Quantitively measure the time savings for each task or automation feature in NME brings when compared to doing the same work manually in the Microsoft admin portals. Recommendations for greater efficiency are also provided.
For details, see Insights: Costs and efficiency.
Nerdio Copilot: Remove GPT-3.5 - We no longer support GPT-3.5, so this has been removed from deployment. All App configurations and Recovery services related to this have been removed.
Nerdio Modeler: Add Windows 365 License type - Customers are now able to manually select which license type to model for Windows 365.
User Cost Attribution 1.7.1 – An updated version of UCA is deployed in this release, bringing new features including:
- A Download support logs function that collates all logs to a single folder and returns a SAS URI to download them
- Cost Groups, which allow you to define a custom list for reporting.
User Cost Attribution: Exports - UCA now offers a new exports endpoint which generates a csv report based on the selected export type, and then stores it in the UCA storage account.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Installer - Fixed an issue where some GCC High installations in Azure Gov Cloud would fail during SQL setup.
- Installer – Fixed an issue where installations using a pre-created EntraID application (Install Method 3) could result in missing Key Vault credentials.
- Nerdio Manager Resilience – Fixed an issue where secondary failover database replicas were inaccessible after creation.
- Migrate – Updated logic where AVD personal host migrations to Windows 365 would fail if Intune integration lacked group manage permissions or ran in user context mode where user cannot create EntraID groups. This issue is now detected and reported earlier in the migration process.
AVD:
- Azure Virtual Desktop: User Sessions – Fixed an issue where the columns of Application and Last Login Time may have shown an N/A error.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image – Fixed an issue where applications were not being installed on the cloned image that is created during the desktop image re-image process. An upcoming enhancement will be implemented to choose which image (source or cloned image) applications are installed on.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local – Fixed an issue where backup version limits for desktop images were sometimes not respected. Additionally, fixed an issue where images may not have been deleted from the Azure Local cluster after being deleted from within Nerdio.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool – Fixed an issue that caused entered rows not to display properly when using the profile comparison tool for RDP profiles with the Advanced edit mode.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool – Fixed an issue that caused personal host pool session hosts that were “excluded from scale in/scale out operations” to be powered on during pre-stage when Auto-scale was configured to use User-driven mode.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Fixed an issue where auto-shrink would scale in session hosts that had a new user assigned but had not had any assigned users for a long period of time before the new assignment.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files – Fixed an issue that caused errors when joining Azure Files to Active Directory with the Create a computer-joined file share option enabled.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: API – Fixed an issue that caused the Get ARM session host by assigned user API query to return an invalid value in some instances.
Device & App Management:
- Intune: Device policy Cache – The device policy caching function has been optimized to use an alternative Graph API endpoint, significantly reducing the API calls required and therefore reducing the potential for API exhaustion and "Too many requests" errors in very large Intune environments.
- Intune: Policy Conflicts Dashboard – Some policy conflicts may not have been reflected in the Nerdio Manager console, despite being seen in the native Intune console. This issue is resolved.
- Intune: Device removal – Resolved an issue that could cause hybrid-joined host deletion tasks to remove the host from Entra ID, but fail to delete the corresponding Intune record.
- UAM: Task logging – UAM logging now includes source and application friendly name details to support troubleshooting of application install issues.
Observability & AI:
- Insights: Health - Fixed an error in the Health dashboard when using Provisioned vCore-based purchasing model for SQL DB. Database CPU and memory usage charts would not display correctly.

Known issues

Platform:
- Desktop Images – In Firefox at 100% zoom, the Add desktop image from Library button may not be visible.
- Desktop Images – Images that include the October 2025 update (KB5066835) for Windows 11 24H2 or later may cause UAC and other system issues on deployed hosts. This occurs when the update is installed before image capture or Sysprep, or when using the latest marketplace 24H2+ images. If impacted, revert to a previous image and apply updates after deployment. A permanent fix is being investigated.
- Installer - New installs may fail when the installing user’s account exists in one tenant, but the target subscription exists in a different tenant, and the user has access to multiple subscriptions across additional tenants.
Device & App Management:
- Scripted Sequences limitations:
  - The feature is intentionally limited to 100 concurrent tasks for this preview release. This limit will be increased in future.
  - Only Intune devices are supported in this release, the scope will be expanded in future.
  - Scripted sequences must be manually targeted to a set of devices in the current release. Automated assignment and remediation of new devices is planned for a future release.
  - The initial deployment of the Nerdio Endpoint Worker is controlled by Intune platform script delivery, and may take an extended period. Subsequent tasks to the same device will execute within a 15-30 minute window.
- Observability & AI:
  - Sepago Azure Monitor: Stability concerns have been identified with the Sepago agent on Windows hosts operating Windows 11 24H2. Nerdio and Sepago are collaborating to resolve these issues.
  - User Cost Attribution: Reported AVD infrastructure costs may be significantly lower than actual for environments where there are large amounts of cost data.

v7.4.4 GA (Release Date November 21, 2025)

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Console Connect – Resolved an issue where newly installed Console Connect agents were being automatically uninstalled shortly after setup.
Device & App Management:
- UAM WinGet private repositories – Newly created repositories may have caused the error message "An unhandled error occurred" to be shown on the application catalog page. This was due to an error in the creation process which has now been resolved. Please delete any affected empty repositories and recreate.

v7.4.3 GA (Release Date November 11, 2025)

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Private Endpoints - Fixed an issue where private endpoint deployments failed when private DNS zones were located in a different subscription than the one hosting Nerdio Manager. The system now correctly detects and handles private DNS zones across linked subscriptions.
AVD:
- Custom View - Fixed an issue in the All Running Hosts view that could cause an "item with the same key" error to appear.
- Azure Files - Fixed an issue that caused the Azure Files page to display the Usage and Capacity column details as 0.00 GiB used.
- Self-Service Portal - Fixed an issue that caused the calendar sometimes to fail to appear correctly when excluding a session host from auto-scale.
Device & App Management:
- VM Apps Discovery - Fixed an issue that caused this task to fail during Custom Script Extension execution when session host was configured to only allow signed scripts to run. The issue occurred because the app discovery extension was not digitally signed.
- Upload Cloud PC image - Fixed an issue that caused the upload process to fail in some scenarios at the step Update policy [Policy Name], with the error "Provisioning policy name must be specified".
Observability & AI:
- Auto-scale Insights recommendations errors - Due to time zone changes in various locales, some users reported errors in Auto-scale Insights tasks. This error has now been resolved.

Known issues

Platform:
- Desktop Images - Images created containing the October 2025 update (KB5066835) for Windows 11 24H2 may see UAC and other system issues on deployed hosts. This occurs when the update is installed before image capture or Sysprep, or the latest updated marketplace 24H2 image is used. If affected, revert to a previous image and apply updates after deployment.
AVD:
- API - The Get ARM session host by assigned user API query may return the incorrect session host VM for a user.

v7.4.2 GA (Release Date October 30, 2025)

This is a GA release that contains all the items in v7.4.1, plus the following items:

Features

Platform

Job Execution Optimization - To improve database performance and reduce DTU spikes, we've introduced limits on the number of concurrent jobs that can run per job type. When this limit is reached, additional jobs are automatically queued until capacity becomes available. You can adjust the limit using the advanced App Service setting Provision:MaxRunningJobsPerType. The default value is 1,000. NewVm tasks remain limited to 100.

AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop: Optimizations – Numerous backend improvements have been implemented to enhance the overall speed, efficiency, and reduce loading times for many areas of the product, specifically for customers managing large-scale workloads.
- Auto-Scale
  - Implemented various enhancements to Auto-Scale tasks to improve reliability and performance for large workloads.
  - Ongoing monitoring and optimization will continue to enhance Auto-Scale provisioning.
- Self-Service Portal
  - Improved the loading times and responsiveness for end users.
- Host Pool
  - Improved loading performance for proximity placement groups, dedicated host groups, and backup vaults.
- Azure Files
  - Improved page load performance and decreased the loading time when linking new Azure Files to Nerdio.
- Log Analytics
  - Improved loading performance when linking new workspaces.
- Resource Groups
  - Improved loading of resource groups when linking new resource groups.
- Desktop Images
  - Improved loading of images across multiple pages. Improvements to querying Azure Compute Gallery images are planned for an upcoming release.
- Virtual Networks
  - Improved loading of virtual networks across various pages.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Marketplace Images – Added new Windows 11 and Windows Server images from the Azure Marketplace to the AVD image dropdowns. For guidance on linking additional images, see Refresh desktop images from the Azure Marketplace.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local – When provisioning a desktop image to Azure Local, the timeout duration now automatically scales based on disk size, ensuring sufficient time for larger images to transfer successfully to your Azure Local custom location.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Agent Updates
- AVD Agent - 1.0.12183.900
- FSLogix - 25.09 (3.25.822.19044)

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Console Connect – Corrected an issue that caused Trusted launch and Confidential Compute VMs to be unable to establish connections.
- Console Connect – Corrected an issue that caused some devices to be unable to be connected to and to be reported as offline even when powered on.
AVD:
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-Scale – Fixed an issue where the Active hosts graph checkbox could not be unchecked.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image – Fixed an issue that caused some scripted actions to fail to be deployed when creating new desktop images with applications also being deployed.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool – Fixed an issue for personal host pools where the Managed assigned user dropdown option did not appear if Windows 365 management was disabled.
- Azure Virtual Desktop – Fixed various grammatical, consistency, and wording discrepancies throughout the AVD modules and tooltips.

Device & App Management:
- Intune: Device removal – Fixed an issue that caused Nerdio Manager occasionally to erroneously remove iOS or Android devices from Intune as part of the Intune device removal process for AVD hosts.
- Intune: Policy Approvals – The approver details are now included on the policy approvals page. Submitter and approver notes are included in the history details.

Known issues

Observability & AI:
- Intune Insights - There is no upper limit for amber and red thresholds in Intune Insights App Metering, which can cause issues in display.
AVD:
- User Sessions - The Application and Last Login Time columns may not populate within the User Sessions page.
- Self-Service Portal - When excluding a session host from auto-scale, the calendar may not appear correctly.
- Custom View - When viewing the All Running Hosts view, an "item with the same key" error may appear.
Platform:
- Storage Accounts - Usage and capacity details may report as 0.00GiB used. This is a reporting issue only. A hotfix is planned for this issue.
- Installer - New installs may fail when the installing user’s account exists in one tenant, but the target subscription exists in a different tenant, and the user has access to multiple subscriptions across additional tenants. A fix is being investigated.

v7.4.1 Preview (Release Date October 20, 2025)

Announcements

The new Nerdio AVD to Windows 365 migration tool is now in Public Preview. This requires new Microsoft Graph API endpoints to properly function. These endpoints are expected to be released by Microsoft to public preview in the coming weeks.
The legacy Cloud PC management page will be removed in the 7.5 release. The option to Hide individual Cloud PC hosts page will be removed and the page will no longer be available for use.

Features

Platform

Migration : AVD personal host migration to Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PCs is now in Public Preview.
UI: The new UI design has been applied to additional pages for the Storage, Endpoints and Applications modules.
- Tasks now show in a table with pages and no longer rely on the Load more button at the bottom of the list.
UI: Filters are now persistent across tabs on the same page. When you switch between tabs, your selected filters will remain applied until you clear or change them.
Security Hardening: Private Endpoints enabled when NME's App Service has a configured Private Endpoint and Virtual Network integration allows for use with:
- Runbook Execution Mode - Inline Script: This feature allows you to use Azure Runbooks in hardened environments where storage accounts are locked down without the complexity of deploying or managing hybrid runbook worker VMs. For details, see Scripted actions for Azure runbooks.
- WinGet - Support for creating WinGet with private endpoints: When enabled, this feature automatically configures private endpoints on the integrated vNet for the following WinGet resources:
  - Web App
  - Key Vault
  - Cosmos Account
  - Storage Account.
- Azure AI: PII detector can be enabled to use the integrated private endpoint vNet in hardened environments.
- Azure AI: Descriptions and Auto-scale Analytics Recommendations can now be deployed using private endpoints in hardened environments.
Installation: SQL Authentication - Entra ID is now used for SQL Authentication by default for new installs.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Scripted Actions - A new scripted action has been added that will allow the disabling of session time limits for a session host.

AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Capacity Extender - Azure Capacity Extender has been enhanced and now features a new checkbox, Availability Zone Awareness, which considers all possible Availability Zones for increased redundancy and availability. For details, see Host Pool Azure Capacity Extender Configuration.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Capacity Extender - If Azure Capacity Extender is enabled, and the Allow resizing of hibernated VMs option is enabled, end users can now use it for hibernated session hosts in the self-service portal.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Nerdio Manager now supports GPU-P configurations, including the ability to install NVIDIA drivers and license using a Scripted Action. For details, see Host pool VM deployment.

Note: This Microsoft Azure feature is currently in Public Preview. See Using GPU-P on Microsoft Learn for additional information.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Added support for Custom Views for session hosts. The Power on all hosts option is also now available when scheduling AVD agent updates.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - The Azure Monitor agent is now configured to enable automatic updates by default for new host pools. This can be disabled or enabled in the Monitoring and Analytics tab in the host pool settings.
Azure Virtual Desktop: AVD Agent - The AVD agent is now updated independently of our regular Nerdio releases, allowing you to immediately take advantage of the features of the latest AVD agent as it is released by Microsoft, without first needing to upgrade Nerdio Manager.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-scale - The Automatically re-image used hosts setting for auto-scale gains a new option, During scale-in restrictions only. When this option is enabled, re-imaging will only occur within the configured scale-in restriction period, thereby reducing the risk of reduced session capacity on the host pool at other times. For details, see Enable dynamic host pool Auto-scaling.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - When setting the host pool auto-scale configuration, you will now have the option to Use the Staged image version so that the staged image version, if available, is always used for that host pool. This ensures that auto-scale uses the staged image version, when available.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files - Nerdio now allows linking file shares to Active Directory when using managed identity and federated identity.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Permissions - The Manage Profiles RBAC permission will now allow assigned users to close file handles within storage accounts.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Optimizations - AVD receives a number of improvements and optimizations, including for auto-scale tasks for large environments, when linking virtual networks in the settings page, and faster loading of the AVD tab within the host pool settings.
Azure Virtual Desktop: REST API - The AllowedDiskSizes endpoint has been deprecated.

Device & App Management

Windows 365 bulk actions - Additional actions such as reprovision can now be assigned in bulk, simplifying device administration activities.
Windows 365: Console alert on provisioning policy mismatch - Cloud PCs that do not meet the current provisioning policy configuration for either SSO or network location can now be easily identified from the console under the Windows 365 devices tab, allowing for swift remediation.
Windows 365: SSO Status - The SSO status of a desktop is now shown directly in the Windows 365 assignments device list.
Intune Policy approval workflows - Avoid unexpected policy changes by implementing policy approval workflows via a new Approvals dashboard. This feature allows a second RBAC-assigned admin to review, approve or deny changes requested to Intune polices via the Nerdio Manager console, minimizing the risks associated with the policy management lifecycle. For details, see Enable and configure Intune.
Intune Policy Approval Workflows: RBAC - The Read Approvals and Manage Approvals roles have been added to allow administrators to review or respond to all change requests. These roles have the rights respectively to review and approve change requests. Administrators who have permissions to edit policies but do not have one of these new roles assigned are able to see the Approvals dashboard but will see only their own change requests. For details, see Role-based access control (RBAC): Custom roles.
Unified Application Management: Intune Application Import general availability - The ability to extract and import applications directly from Intune is now generally available, offering customers the ability to recover and manage their Win32 application binaries from Intune, and optionally import as Shell Apps.

Observability & AI

Insights: Enhanced detail in graph exports - We now provide all the detailed metrics and data associated with each graph in the export of any Insights graph.
Insights: Individual Windows 365 recommendations to include email - Recommendations Windows 365 Export (CSV) now includes the user's email address, which you can use to send out a direct communication - for example, if the plan is to decommission the machine as there is no usage.
Modeler - Reserved Instances added back to Nerdio modeler - Reserved instances offer a percentage discount based on 1 or 3 year commits. This percentage discount is applied to a VM which is running permanently.
User cost attribution - table update. The column layout of the Per-host pool costs table in the UCA dashboard has been updated to offer provide more meaningful insights.
Insights - Windows 365. This feature has moved out of Public Preview and is now generally available.

Resolved issues

Platform:
- Console Connect - Australia region provisioning issue has been resolved allowing new Australia Console Connect deployments to proceed.
- Console Connect - Corrected an issue that cause the Console Connect agent to be installed during a host removal.
- Console Connect - Resolved an issue where the Console Connect agent could fail to install due to a race condition during new host deployments.
- Console Connect - Corrected an issue related to Trusted launch and Confidential Compute VMs not able to establish connections.
- Console Connect - Corrected an issue where a device could not be connected to and reported as offline even when powered on.
- Workspaces - Corrected formatting display issues when searching host pools.
AVD:
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Fixed an issue that caused the message "Error: Stopped disk type expected" to appear during some Auto-scale tasks.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Fixed an issue where powered-off session hosts were not placed in "drain mode" when powering on to deploy a scripted action.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Notifications - Fixed an issue that caused some notifications related to auto-shrink in personal host pools to be delivered repeatedly.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Capacity Extender - Additional validations have been implemented to assist in resolving issues where a "200 Status" error occurred during the "resize VM" operation of Azure Capacity Extender.
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pools - Fixed a visual bug that caused the "Exclude Drain mode hosts" checkbox not to appear selected when reopening the "Power on" scheduled task for host pools. (This did not impact the actual setting - only the appearance of the checkbox.)
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files - Unlinking Azure File shares from Nerdio will now also remove the Nerdio-specific tags from the corresponding storage account
- Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files - The Performance and Replication properties for file shares are now shown correctly.
- Azure Virtual Desktop - Various grammatical, consistency, and verbiage discrepancies have been resolved throughout the AVD pages.
Device & App Management:
- Last Contact Policy status dates - Fixed an issue that could cause last contact date to be inconsistent with the configured time zone in some circumstances.
- SSO and Windows 365 Provisioning Policy - When a new policy is created and SSO is enabled, SSO is now always applied correctly.
- Unified Application Management: Assignment enhancements - Assignments are no longer pre-populated with the non-functional assignments AVD Workspaces and Any host pool for pooled (shared) desktops. This is a prerequisite for the planned ability to assign a policy to all workspaces or all host pools, which will be added in future.
Observability & AI:
- Microsoft Dev Box in Windows 365 Insights - Fixed an issue that caused some customers to see Microsoft Dev Box instances in the Windows 365 insights page.
- Modeler - Fixed an issue that caused Nerdio Modeler to fail to authorize some users to view details of built models.
- Insights: FSLogix - Fixed an issue that caused some profiles to be marked incorrectly as orphaned profiles.

Known issues

Platform:
- Console Connect - Console Connect agent may fail to reinstall on a host if it was previously installed then removed.
- Webjobs Actions – Opening Webjobs actions from Settings > Nerdio > Webjobs results in an Azure Portal error. This is an Azure portal issue. As a workaround, you can access the same page by manually opening the NME Web App in the Azure Portal and navigating to Settings > Webjobs until the Azure Portal issue is resolved.
Device & App Management:
- Intune Bulk actions - Bulk actions may fail for a subset of selected Intune devices due to task rejections by the Intune API. Currently, an error is generated in the Nerdio manger task log, however the specific devices which failed the task are not listed. This information is planned to be added in future.
- Intune "too many requests" error - In large environments, the default Intune policy state caching function may return errors in the Nerdio Manager log due to excessive API queries. Additional app service setting controls have also been added to allow for the reduction of API calls and the associated "too many requests" console errors. For configuration guidance, please refer to Intune Policy Dashboard: troubleshoot "TooManyRequests" API error.

v7.3.5 GA (Release Date October 17, 2025)

This release contains an interim fix for an issue with caching Intune policies in Nerdio Manager.

Resolved issues

Device & App Management:
- Intune Policy Status Caching: The default policy cache refresh interval has been increased to 180 minutes. Additional app service setting controls have also been added to allow for the reduction of API calls and the associated "too many requests" console errors in large customer environments. For configuration guidance, please refer to Intune Policy Dashboard: troubleshoot "TooManyRequests" API error.
- Intune Policy Status Caching: Resolved an issue which caused policy caching to fail and return the error "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.IntunePolicyDeviceStatusCache'" in some customer environments.

v7.3.3 GA (Release Date September 19, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.3.2, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

AVD:
1. Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Fixed an issue that caused host pools to not appear in certain environments.
Device & App Management:
1. WinGet - Fixed an issue that caused an error when querying a private WinGet repository.

v7.3.2 GA (Release Date September 17, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.3.1, plus the following items:

Features

AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Administrators can now clean up the reserved VM names that may be saved when using unique names for the VM naming options in the Auto-scale settings.

Device & App Management

Windows 365 provisioning error details - Detailed provisioning error messages are now displayed in the device details page for Windows 365 devices, eliminating the need to navigate to Intune to retrieve specific error details.

Resolved Issues

Platform:
1. Scripted Actions - Fixed an issue that caused the built-in Update AVD Agent runbook to fail to retrieve file names, resulting in an error.
AVD:
1. Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Mitigated a known Azure issue that prevented the tagging of network interface (NIC) resources when integrating existing Azure Local host pools into Nerdio.
2. Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Fixed an issue that caused Nerdio to fail to delete some session hosts when they were powered off at the Unjoin from AD step.
3. Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - Fixed an issue that caused the error VM not found to appear under some circumstances when viewing the session hosts page.
4. Azure Virtual Desktop: Scripted Action - The Install FSLogix scripted action has been modified to account for new folder structure changes to the installation files.
5. Azure Virtual Desktop: Scripted Action - Fixed an issue that caused the Pass AD Credentials field to fail to appear when configuring scripted actions.
6. Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Auto-scale now allocates the correct number of session hosts in all scenarios when using Auto-scale for single-session pooled host pool types.
7. Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Fixed an issue that caused bulk resize operations to multiple session hosts to fail when NVMe was enabled at the host pool level.
8. Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Fixed an issue that caused an error in some circumstances when changing directory profiles for a host pool.
9. Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Fixed an issue that caused session time limits to not be applied for a host pool.
Observability & AI:
1. Nerdio Copilot - Fixed an error that caused the message "Multitenant bot creation is deprecated" to be displayed when deploying Nerdio Copilot.
2. Insights - FSLogix Insights now showing correct data for last logon.
3. Insights - Fixed an issue that caused the Subnet IP Usage Insights graph to fail to load and display error messages for users under custom RBAC assignment.
4. Rightsizing - Cloud PC rightsizing text is now consistent.
5. Nerdio Copilot - Fixed a bug that caused code block text to be invisible.
6. User Cost Attribution - Fixed a discrepancy between the values shown for Total VM running hours before and after upgrade with identical data.
7. User Cost Attribution - Fixed an error due to a permissions delay when enabling UCA with existing resources and a new app registration.

v7.3.1 Preview (Release Date September 9, 2025)

Announcements

New/Legacy UI toggle removed with 7.3 release - As we announced previously, the UI toggle to switch between our New and Legacy UI is no longer available starting with this release. All areas of Nerdio Manager that have been updated will default to the new UI.
Beta icon is now replaced with Public Preview icon - For any Nerdio Manager features that are not Generally Available, we have replaced the BETA icon with PUBLIC PREVIEW.
Legacy Cloud PC page deprecated with 7.4 release - The Legacy Cloud PC page under Endpoints > Windows 365 > Cloud PC (hidden by default for new deployments) will be deprecated starting with Nerdio Manager 7.4. All functionality available within the Cloud PC page is available within the All Devices page (simply filter on Windows 365 Cloud PCs).
Enable Intune policy Cache by default - The caching of the on-device Intune policy states is now enabled by default for all environments. This offers significant improvements in device policy processing time and reduces the Intune Graph API overhead and any associated API exhaustion. You can still disable this feature if required, using the advanced app service setting Features:IntuneCache:IntunePolicyDeviceStatusCacheEnabled.

Features

Platform

Console Connect for desktop image hosts - Console Connect is extended to support connections to Desktop Image Hosts. On initial connection you must select the Console Connect region. This feature provides an alternative remote management path for image hosts that are not reachable via direct RDP, improving accessibility for maintenance, patching, and imaging workflows. For details, see Enable Console Connect (remote support).
User Interface - The new UI design has been applied to additional pages. The Updates, Manage Auto-scale, Auto-scale history, and Remote applications pages have been transitioned to the new UI.
User Interface - Improvements to the page layout include enhancements to the header and breadcrumbs, as well as improved styles and colors for texts and icons.
User Interface - You can now review Announcements that you've previously dismissed. For details, see UI Overview.
Nerdio PowerShell Module - The Nerdio PowerShell module is updated to include support for the latest Nerdio APIs. Administrators should update to the newest module version to access expanded cmdlets. For details, see PowerShell Module: Tutorial.
Disable in-app notification for private previews - You can now turn off in-app update alerts for private preview releases if you don't want to receive them. If you disable these alerts, the update icon will appear only when a General Availability release is available.
Installation: Security - The installation process receives several enhancements to improve the overall application security posture. These enhancements are:
- Private Endpoints - Additional Private DNS zones added
- Private Endpoints - Option to disable public access to the app service
- Private Endpoints - Support for Intune Insights and User Cost attribution.
- Private Endpoints - Allow trusted Microsoft services option for the Key Vault is now disabled.
- Private Endpoints - Support for resilient SQL and Resilient Webapp scenarios.
- Private Endpoint configuration: Previously, the Azure Marketplace deployment template required address spaces of /16 and above as a minimum for Private Endpoints in. These requirements have been reduced to support /24 for virtual networks and /28 for subnets.
Azure Runbooks Manage Module Versions - You can now update and manage the modules used by the Azure runbooks under Settings > Nerdio > Azure runbooks scripted actions.

AVD

Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-scale - You can now select multiple subnets within the same virtual network when configuring auto-scale. For details, see Enable Dynamic Host Pool Auto-scaling.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local - You can now implement Custom Views for Azure Local host pools. Adding or removing resource locks for Azure Local session hosts is also now supported. For details, see Create a Custom View.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pools - Scripted actions are relocated from the Virtual Machines tab in the host pool settings page to their own separate tab. You can now create individual profiles based on different scripted actions that can be applied at scale. For details, see Scripted actions overview.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Virtual Machines - When Nerdio creates and updates virtual machines, the deployment process is now faster as we have combined different scripts and extensions to deploy simultaneously.
Azure Virtual Desktop: User Self-Service Portal - Session state options are added for improved flexibility when re-sizing session hosts back to the template VM size. For details, see Personal host pool user self-service.
Azure Virtual Desktop: User Self-Service Portal - Administrators now have access to the User Self-Service portal within their Nerdio administrative console.
Azure Virtual Desktop: User Self-Service Portal - The Self-Service Portal now allows you to increase disk sizes. Note that Azure does not allow disk sizes to be decreased subsequently, so any increases to disk size will be permanent.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Legacy User Self-Service Portal - The legacy self-service portal that was used with classic AVD (Non-ARM) is deprecated.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure NetApp Files - A new checkbox is added to the Auto-scale feature, allowing you to limit the volume pool scale-out size to the required size, independent of the capacity pool size.
Azure Virtual Desktop: FSLogix - The FSLogix settings are streamlined, and additional registry options, including Cloud Cache, are now available.
Azure Virtual Desktop: FSLogix - Selecting secondary Cloud Cache locations is now optional, to support third-party tools that manage your FSLogix environment.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Files - Existing Premium v2 (ZRS) storage accounts can now be linked within the Nerdio Azure Files page.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Capacity Extender - Additional warnings and disclaimers trigger when selecting alternate VM SKU sizes for Azure Capacity Extender that may not be compatible with your current host pool configuration.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - You are now able to designate how the version number increments when you set a new image (version numbers are in the format Major.Minor.Revision). For example, when updating version 1.4.3, the up-level version would be numbered as follows, depending on the option you choose in the Version Increment Type dropdown:
- Major: 2.0.0
- Minor: 1.5.0
- Revision: 1.4.4.
  
  For details, see Desktop images Set as Image.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - Encryption at host is now supported when creating or cloning desktop images.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - The intelligent disk pre-staging functionality for personal host pools is now out of preview. See Intelligent disk pre-staging for personal host pools - Nerdio Manager for Enterprise for details.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - Trusted Launch is now supported on NVMe-enabled VM SKUs.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-heal - New notification conditional tasks have been added to support auto-heal events.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Virtual Network - You can now create virtual networks from within the Nerdio settings page. For details, see Settings Overview.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Virtual Network - When linking virtual networks to Nerdio, the Azure Network Contributor role is now used; this reduces the security requirements. Please note that for accurate User cost attribution reporting, you must confirm that your virtual networks are tagged appropriately.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - When comparing different profiles, you can now view only the values that differ between the profiles. For details, see Manage host pool profiles.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool - When session hosts have resource locks applied, the task logs have been expanded to indicate that a lock is in place when session host changes occur and fail.
Azure Virtual Desktop: AVD Agent - New version 1.0.11802.2200
REST API: FSLogix - Two endpoints are added for managing FSLogix account exclusions.

Device & App Management

Intune User Mode support - Nerdio manager now supports delegated permissions for Intune integration, meaning organizations can make use of the existing permissions assigned to administrators, and reduce or remove any requirement for the Nerdio manager application to be granted write permissions to Intune. For details, see UEM: Enable and configure Intune.
Windows 365 Cloud PC: Connectivity status - A new tab is added to the Cloud PC device details popup, providing current and historical connectivity information for the Cloud PC. This allows for detailed troubleshooting and analysis of connectivity issues. For details, see UEM: Manage devices.
Windows 365: Change Region or Azure Network for selected devices - You can now quickly apply a change to the Network connection on an existing Cloud PC host without having to reprovision it with a new policy and potentially lose data. For details, see Windows 365: Enable and configure Cloud PCs.
Windows 365 Notifications: Manager variable - Windows 365 license reclamation alerts now allow you to select Entra ID manager as the recipient for email alerts. When this value is set, the user’s manager is alerted if a license reclamation opportunity is discovered.
UAM policies: Respect host state - A new dropdown on the policy screen, Desired host state, applies to the whole policy. The setting dictates whether application actions are allowed to occur when AVD desktops have active users connected, no sessions connected or are in a shutdown state only. For details, see UAM: Manage deployment policies.
UAM: Filter applications by repository - When selecting images for deployment, you can now filter applications by repository to streamline the process.
UAM Private WinGet repositories: .NET 8 - The WinGet repository deployment process now uses .NET 8, replacing the legacy .NET 6 implementation. Existing repositories are automatically upgraded.
Windows 365 License Utilization Notification - Threshold-based notifications are now sent to IT administrators regarding license utilization and recommendations for license reclamation, enabling timely and configurable alerts.

Observability & AI

Intune Insights: General Availability - The Intune insights feature has now moved out of preview and is generally available.
Nerdio Advisor: General Availability - The Nerdio Advisor feature has now moved out of preview and is generally available.
Import current host pools to AVD Modeler - Pools that are included in the User Cost Attribution (UCA) reporting may now be imported into Modeler, providing actual costs as benchmarks rather than synthetic examples. For details, see Modeler overview.

Note: User Cost Attribution must be enabled for this feature.
Insights: export to .pdf or .png - You can now export Nerdio Insights reports to .pdf and .png files for simple distribution to interested parties, or inclusion in communications.
AI: Analytics Pro - You can now copy KQL queries that you’ve requested from the Analytics Pro Copilot integration. A new copy button in the chat window makes this a one-click operation.
Insights: Windows 365 - The Device Health chart is improved so that Unavailable Cloud PCs are displayed and can be filtered by region, connection errors, and host status.

Resolved Issues

Platform:
1. Console Connect - Fixed an issue that caused some Console Connect agent installations to fail due to throttling limits.
2. Tooltip behavior - Tooltips now appear on click and disappear when the user clicks elsewhere. This fixes an issue where tooltips could remain on screen and potentially overlap with other tooltips.
3. Nerdio Manager - When deploying Nerdio Manager for Enterprise, checks and validation have been updated to ensure that the chosen resource name prefixes account for the character limits imposed by Azure.
4. Database optimization - Resolved DTU spikes triggered by linked scripted actions and optimized queries for improved performance.
5. Text Selection - The new UI presented issues with text selection. This was resolved for AVD hosts in a previous release. This change has now been applied in all other areas of the product.
6. Azure Automation Account Variables: Encryption - Azure Automation Account variables are now encrypted when deploying Nerdio.
AVD:
1. Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - Fixed an issue that caused updating desktop images to fail in some scenarios when using boot diagnostics.
2. Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - Fixed an issue that caused an error to appear when assigning an RBAC role for a specific desktop image.
3. Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - The change log task now has its description width set correctly for clarity.
4. Azure Virtual Desktop: Entra ID - Fixed an issue that caused some session hosts to fail to join when using the advanced app service configuration AvdHostEntraIdCleanup.
5. Azure Virtual Desktop: Backups - For storage accounts created when staging backups during desktop image and session host restores, if these are changed to storage account types other than LRS, Nerdio now uses them as intended.
App & Device Management:
1. Intune management: Devbox devices - Resolved an issue where Devbox devices were erroneously displayed in the management page, despite not being supported in the Nerdio Manager Intune integration.
2. Intune management: Device details - When an update policy is selected in the device details popup, the icon is now highlighted, eliminating the potential for confusion.
3. Intune Management: Policy state duplication - Fixed an issue that caused Policy states to be duplicated in the device details popup.
4. Deploy Applications: Maintenance Window Improvements - The user interface for the option to use existing pool maintenance windows if they exist, or to specify a new window, is simplified. A new tooltip is added to provide clear guidance on usage.
5. Deploy Applications: Hybrid hosts - Azure Local hosts now respect the Install applications setting when adding new hosts.
6. SCCM integration: Skip legacy packages - A new app service option SccmConfiguration:SkipLegacyPackages has been added. If enabled, legacy programs and packages will be excluded from search. This can significantly reduce discovery times in complex environments.
7. UAM: WinGet public repository - Fixed an issue where WinGet Public repository favorite apps showed an error message reporting sorting problems with the Compare() method.
Observability & AI:
1. User Cost Attribution - Fixed a bug that resulted in no data being displayed in some circumstances.
2. Nerdio Manager Copilot - Fixed an issue that caused code snippets to be formatted as white text on a white background.
3. User Cost Attribution - Fixed a bug that caused inaccurate reporting of total VM running hours after upgrade.
4. Insights - Dates that were missing or cropped on the right-hand side of large graphs now display in full.

Known Issues

Device & App Management | Intune Insights: Devbox devices - Intune Insights filtering currently ignores Devbox filters. Devbox devices will be returned in Intune insights and cannot currently be filtered out. This issue is planned for resolution.
Azure Virtual Desktop | Azure File Shares - It is not currently possible to join Azure file shares to Active Directory when the subscription authentication method is not configured to use app registration. This issue is planned for resolution.
Azure Virtual Desktop | Azure File Shares - It is not currently possible to create Azure file shares within Nerdio for the linked, new, v2 storage account types. This issue is planned for resolution.
Azure Virtual Desktop | Azure File Shares - The Performance and Replication properties for ZRS-based file shares are shown as Unknown in the Manage Azure Files popup. This issue is planned for resolution.
Azure Virtual Desktop | Azure Local - The backup version limit, and the deletion of VM images, may not work as intended for desktop images. This issue is planned for resolution.
Azure Virtual Desktop | Scripted Actions - When deploying scripted actions to host pools, the option to use specific AD credentials is missing.

v7.2.3 GA (Release Date September 2, 2025)

Resolved Issues

We have identified a Microsoft Azure issue causing duplicate AVD host pools to populate within Nerdio Manager in certain regions. Microsoft is actively investigating the problem. Nerdio is releasing this version as a hotfix release to provide a workaround by masking the duplicate entries. It should be noted that resources themselves are not being duplicated within Azure Portal, but duplicates are being returned when querying via Azure ARM API. Microsoft Tracking ID: BV11-NR0 - https://app.azure.com/h/BV11-NR0/df37e8

v7.2.2 GA (Release Date August 7, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in 7.2.1, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

Azure Virtual Desktop: Re-image task - Pre-existing re-image tasks may have failed with a scale-in aggressiveness error.
Insights: Average login duration error - An error within this graph may appear, causing the graph data to be missing.
Nerdio Modeler: PDF reports - The Nerdio Modeler was missing the bottom section of the report.
Nerdio Modeler: Missing app service cost - An error banner may have appeared indicating missing costs for app services, and that the 'Include Nerdio manager resource costs' option is not available.
Nerdio Modeler: Zoom and scroll - Some browsers could not scroll and zoom correctly when using the standalone modeler.

v7.2.1 GA (Release Date July 31, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in 7.2.0, plus the following items:

Console Connect - New and exiting users must accept the updated terms of service and data protection addendum to continue using Console Connect. For more details, see Enable Console Connect (remote support).
Azure Virtual Desktop: Hibernation enhancements - Administrators and end users (via the self-service portal) can now power off session hosts in a hibernated state.

Resolved Issues

Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure local - An error may appear when associating Azure Local session hosts with Nerdio, or when displaying these session hosts within the console.
Nerdio - Certain menu options may not appear for Mac users when using the Safari browser.

Known Issues

Nerdio Modeler - When using the print functionality within the Nerdio Modeler, the final page may not appear correctly.
Insights: AVD - The Average Login Duration chart may not appear correctly for certain environments.

Agent Updates

The following updated agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.11388.1600
FSLogix 25.06 (3.25.626.21064)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v7.2.0 Preview (Release Date July 25, 2025)

Nerdio Manager UI – The new UI design has been applied to additional pages, including Desktop Images, RBAC, Scripted Actions, and the host pools’ Installed Applications pages.
NOTE: Pages that have been converted to the new UI design will no longer have a toggle to switch to the old UI starting in v7.3.
Console Connect: Regions – Added support for the Australia and Canada regions. For more details, see Enable Console Connect (remote support).
Console Connect: Toolbox – You can now run toolbox without disrupting the user session. This update provides quick access to PowerShell, Windows Services, Task Manager, Registry Editor, and more. For more details, see Enable Console Connect (remote support).
Console Connect: Azure Local – Console Connect now supports Azure Local AVD session hosts.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Personal desktops – You can now assign multiple personal desktops to a single user. Please review this article for details. Custom time inputs for scale-in delay are also now supported when configuring pre-stage hosts for auto-scale. For more details, see Create dynamic host pools, Create static host pools without auto-scaling, or AVD for Azure Local: Host pools and session hosts.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – When configuring Auto-scale “Auto-heal broken hosts”, additional triggers can be added for enhanced flexibility when using recovery actions.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – The host pool Properties dialog box is now renamed to Settings and has been reorganized to streamline operations.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – Streamlined the functionality to clone Settings (previously, Properties) to a new or existing host pool. For more details, see Clone host pools and host pool settings.
Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop – The Average Login Duration chart now includes additional data to provide visibility into specific stages of the login process. For more details, see Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop.
Intune Insights: Scope support – The Intune Insights page and tabs now respect the Intune management device scope you configured and display only devices within that scope. For more details, see Insights: Intune.
Intune Insights: Data retention limits - Introduced default data retention limits to help reduce SQL database storage usage, these limits will be configurable in a future release:
- Issues: 10 days
- Intune reports: 3 days
- Audit log: 365 days
- Job and task state history: 3 days
Insights: RBAC support – You can now grant RBAC permissions for each specific Insights page. Each Insights page can be set individually in the role definitions function. For more details, see Role-based access control (RBAC): Custom roles and Role-based access control (RBAC) in Nerdio Manager.
Insights: Health – Added Total Regional vCPU quotas to the Compute Quota table for visibility. For more details, see Insights: Health.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Profiles management – You can now quickly compare different profiles using the new profile comparison tool within the SETTINGS> Profiles Management> Profiles page. For more details, see Manage host pool profiles.
Azure Virtual Desktop: FSLogix - You can now exclude administrators from FSLogix profiles. This functionality has been re-added with additional options. For more details, see FSLogix settings and configuration.
Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop – The FSLogix tab now includes the last time FSLogix data was collected. It’s available from the filter dropdown for each file share. For more details, see Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Virtual Desktop: FSLogix - Select multiple file shares on the Azure Files page to collect FSLogix data in bulk, on demand. For more details, see Create and manage configured Azure Files shares.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Storage – Azure NetApp Files volumes now support a minimum size of 1 TiB and the ability to choose which network feature to use. Auto-scaling will consider the new sizes appropriately. Please review this article for important considerations and requirements.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – You can now configure the re-size\reimage task with an option to not sign users out when they disconnect from their session hosts. This helps to prevent the loss of active sessions with long-running tasks. For more details, see Resize/re-image a host pool.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Self-service portal – You can now select additional disk performance tiers when configuring the self-service portal for end users. For more details, see Personal host pool user self-service.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop image – Boot diagnostic storage options have been added when creating desktop images.
Intune Integration: Android device and policy management – You can now manage Android devices and policies directly in the unified endpoint management menus.
Intune Integration: Intune Conditional Access policy state – You can now set Conditional Access policy state (On, Off, Report-only) directly from the Intune Policy Management page. For more details, see UEM: Intune policies and configurations.
Nerdio Advisor: Windows 365 right-sizing – Change the recommended Cloud PC size in the pop-up dialog box. The cost impact will update automatically. For more details, see Rules: Right-sizing Cloud PC.
Nerdio Advisor: Platform TCO – Desktops with existing recommendations will now be highlighted in the report details. You can modify the target desktop size, and the cost profile will dynamically update to display predicted TCO costs for the selected desktop type. For more details, see Recommendations dashboard.
Nerdio Advisor: Filter or scope results by Windows 365 provisioning policy – You can now scope Cloud PC rules to one or more Windows 365 provisioning policies, and one or more AVD host pools, to focus recommendations in the Advisor dashboard.
Unified Application Management: Intune application import wizard – Import Intune applications directly into the UAM global catalog using an intuitive wizard, directly from the global catalog page. For more details, see UAM: Intune app import process.
Unified Application Management: Per-application reboots in application groups –You can now configure individual reboot settings for each application in the group, if required. For more details, see UAM: Manage applications.
Nerdio Manager: Marketplace Deployment enhancements – Nerdio Manager now supports additional security features during Marketplace deployment, including assignment of the Key Vault, SQL Server, and DPS storage account to private endpoints and integration of the App Service to a private VNet.
Scripted Action: Update PowerShell modules – A new scripted action is available to automatically update the Az.DesktopVirtualization PowerShell modules used by Nerdio Manager in Azure. For more details, see Update required for runbook scripted actions.
Update Notification Preferences - Choose which types of updates (e.g., GA, preview) trigger in-product notifications.

Nerdio Manager API

Added a REST API endpoint to modify the Auto-scale Override option.
Added a REST API endpoint to support multiple Auto-heal options.
Unified Application Management: Shell apps API – The Nerdio Manager API and Swagger documentation now includes shell apps configuration and management details.

Resolved issues

Nerdio Manager UI – Resolved various issues related to tables, text placement, and tooltip behavior.
Nerdio Manager: Multiple installations – Resolved an issue in version 7.0, where subsequent Nerdio Manager installations were blocked if a certificate existed for the primary app registration.
Intune Integration – On-device policy status is now cached to reduce the risk of API throttling in large environments.
Intune Insights: Improved Intune tenant syncing – More efficient data handling provides reduced overall SQL DTU consumption, reduced App Service Plan memory usage and general improved performance at scale.
Advisor - Errors may be observed in the logs for CloudPC Right Sizing and recommendations on the dashboard may be outdated due to an Azure API change.
Azure Virtual Desktop – Adding session hosts to host pools may fail in the Intune compliance stage, if configured for this scenario.
Azure Virtual Desktop – Azure Local auto-scale may have failed when Start VM on connect was enabled.
Azure Virtual Desktop – Session hosts created via the auto-scale burst feature may have been incorrectly re-imaged shortly after creation in some scenarios.

Known Issues

Intune Insights: Android devices – Device scoping is not currently supported for Android devices. The Intune Insights page displays all Android devices, regardless of scope configuration. This issue is planned for resolution in v7.3.
Intune Insights: Devices with no primary user - Devices with no primary users cannot be excluded via scoping.
Intune Insights: Unknown devices - When using the Device Visibility Scope Limitations feature in Intune Insights, devices with an Unknown device type may be incorrectly included in the filtered device set when a specific Device Type filter is applied.
Intune Insights: Policy RBAC – Intune insights does not currently respect Nerdio Manager's Intune RBAC configurations for device policies. All Intune Insights users may view the application status for all assigned policies.
Intune Insights: Discovered Apps - When a device is removed from the Intune Device Visibility Scope Limitations, Intune Insights does not automatically remove the Discovered Apps associated with that device. As a result, the Apps pane in Intune Insights may show outdated or inaccurate records of app installations that were originally discovered on devices that are no longer within scope.
Note: The overall device count is not impacted by this issue, only the application discovery data for out-of-scope devices persists in error.
Intune Insights: 500 Error after upgrading – If this issue is encountered, Please refer to resolution guidance here.
Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop – FSLogix profile data may not appear for certain FSLogix configurations. Additional logging has also been implemented to investigate causes.

v7.1.4 GA (Release Date September 2, 2025)

Resolved Issues

We have identified a Microsoft Azure issue causing duplicate AVD host pools to populate within Nerdio Manager in certain regions. Microsoft is actively investigating the problem. Nerdio is releasing this version as a hotfix release to provide a workaround by masking the duplicate entries. It should be noted that resources themselves are not being duplicated within Azure Portal, but duplicates are being returned when querying via Azure ARM API. Microsoft Tracking ID: BV11-NR0 - https://app.azure.com/h/BV11-NR0/df37e8

v7.1.3 GA (Release Date July 10, 2025)

This is a hotfix to the GA release that includes all the items in v7.1.2, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop - The FSLogix tab may have empty values in some scenarios.
Nerdio Manager - Setting a different virtual network to default within the same subscription may not work as expected.
Azure Virtual Desktop - Disk encryption sets may not have appeared correctly when initially opening the host pool properties.

v7.1.2 GA (Release Date June 24, 2025)

This is a hotfix to the GA release that includes all the items in v7.1.1, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

Nerdio Manager – Sustained high DTU% utilization of the SQL database, resulting in degraded performance.

v7.1.1 GA (Release Date June 23, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.1.0, plus the following items:

Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local Enhancements – Associate and manage existing Azure Local hybrid host pools within Nerdio, select multiple host pools to run actions in bulk, and support for Trusted Launch images.

Resolved Issues

Nerdio Manager: Secret generation - In the new UI, you are unable to generate a new secret as the confirmation box would not accept any inputs.
User Cost Attribution – The upgrade process for the User cost Attribution feature may fail in Nerdio manager 7.0.
Nerdio Advisor – Recommendations exports may fail is some regions.
AVD Auto-scale – When using ephemeral disks, Auto-scale may select the wrong disk size during auto scale operations.
AVD assignments – The quick-assign process may fail if a group is selected.
FSLogix profiles – The FSlogix feature was disabled on pools when the assigned directory profile was switched between Entra ID and Entra ID with Intune.
AVD images – An error is surfaced preventing cross-region cloning of images.
Host Tagging – Tags would fail to be applied to hosts with hibernation enabled.
Trusted Launch – attempting to enable trusted launch for an inactive image version would fail.
Console Connect: multi-region – The EU region has been added to Console Connect alongside the US, with more regions coming in future releases. For more details, see Console Connect.
Nerdio - When linking Virtual Networks to Nerdio, the Azure Contributor role is now required.

Known Issues

FSLogix - The ability to exclude specific accounts from FSLogix profiles will be re-added, along with additional enhancements, in a future release.
Intune Insights - For large environments, the modification of policy thresholds may take an extended period of time, and may fail if the 100 second timeout is exceeded. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Intune permissions - Starting July 31, 2025, Nerdio Manager will require new permission to access Intune scripts. Previously we used DeviceManagementConfiguration.Read / ReadWrite.All graph permissions. The New required permission is DeviceManagementScripts.Read/ReadWrite.All. This permission will be added automatically to 7.1 GA installs and later.
Note: Existing installations must be manually updated to reflect this change. Learn More...

Agent updates

The below agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent v1.0.11262.1900
FSLogix 25.04 (v3.25.401.15305)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v7.1.0 Preview (Release Date June 16, 2025)

Console Connect: multi-region – The EU region has been added to Console Connect alongside the US, with more regions coming in future releases. For more details, see Console Connect.
Console Connect custom RBAC – You can now define custom RBAC roles to better align with your organization's access requirements. For more details, see Role-based Access Control (RBAC) in Nerdio Manager.
Nerdio Modeler: Granular administrative costs – The Modeler tool now provides you with granular control over a range of administrative costs. This allows you to more accurately model your deployments. For more details, see Modeler overview.
Intune Insights enhancements - Increased device scalability to support up to 120K endpoints, added support for dark mode, and added ability to manually trigger device synchronization from the Settings page. For more details, see Insights: Intune.
App-V support for App Attach – Reduce application packaging overhead by deploying legacy App-V packages with the App Attach v2 feature.
App Attach UI enhancements – The host pool Applications > App Attach management page has been enhanced to combine both v1 and v2 packages in a single UI. Additionally, you can now assign v2 packages to host pools directly from this menu. For more details, see Create and Manage MSIX App Attach Images and Host Pool Assignments.
UAM: Customize Intune groups – The naming convention for Entra ID groups, created during app deployment via UAM, is now customizable. This allows you to follow your preferred naming conventions.
Intune integration: Policy change history – The policy backup screen now displays the user who edited the Intune policy, for each saved change. This provides an additional layer of auditing and governance. To use this feature, enable automatic policy backups on change. For more details, see UEM: Policies and profiles backup management.
Intune integration: Filter by Entra ID group - The All Devices view now includes an optional Entra ID group filter for devices, allowing you to restrict your view to just the devices within a specified group(s). For more details, see UEM: Manage devices.
Intune integration: Import Intune application metadata –When Intune write permissions can’t be granted to the Nerdio Manager application, you can now import Intune application metadata, including install and uninstall commands, to a new shell app, and specify a separate binary location. For more details, see UAM: Manage applications.
Intune integration: Automatic assignment backups – You can now back up Intune policy assignments during a manual or automatic policy backup, and optionally restore them during a recovery task. For more details, see UEM: Policies and profiles backup management.
Windows 365 alerts: Cloud PC Frontline concurrency buffer alert – Configure an alert on the Nerdio Manager Cloud PC alerts tab to notify you when additional Frontline licenses may be required. For more details, see Alerts and notifications.
Windows 365: Reprovision enhancements – Reprovision your Windows 365 Frontline Shared Cloud PCs, immediately or by schedule, from the Nerdio Manager console. For more details, see Windows 365: Enable and configure Cloud PCs.
Windows 365: Apply policy SSO changes to existing desktops – You can now update SSO profiles on existing Windows 365 Cloud PCs to match the configured policy setting. No need to reprovision the desktops. For more details, see Windows 365: Enable and configure Cloud PCs.
Nerdio Manager: Gitlab support – You can now add Gitlab repositories to Nerdio Manager for more flexible integration. For more details, see Script Repositories Integration.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Insights – The new FSLogix tab has been added, providing details about FSLogix profiles stored in Azure Files. Future updates to the Storage tab will include insights for storage accounts and file shares within your environment. For more details, see Insights: Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Disk performance tiers – You can now specify a performance tier when selecting the disk size within the Nerdio OS Disk dropdowns. Note that Azure imposes a 12-hour restriction on changing performance tiers. For more details, see Performance tiers for managed disks.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Images – You can now add additional Azure Marketplace images via Settings > Marketplace Images. Once added, these images become available from the Images dropdown. Note that additional Azure Marketplace images have not been certified by Nerdio for compatibility. For more details, see Refresh Desktop Images from the Azure Marketplace.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool Performance Enhancement – Host pool pages now load faster in large environments. For additional optimization, you can enable HostPoolVmsConfig:ResourceGraph. For more details, see Scale Up Nerdio Manager for Large Deployments.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool Resource Locks – Nerdio now supports the addition or removal of Azure Resource Locks on session hosts, preventing deletion of critical workloads. For more details, see Host pool resource locks.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool Auto-Scale – When configuring Auto-Scale in User-Driven mode, additional hours options have been added to the Pre-stage scale-in delay setting.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host Pool Schedules – You can now add additional dates when configuring Auto-Scale alternate schedules.
Nerdio Manager: TLS 1.3 support – Deploy or upgrade Nerdio Manager CoPilot and Intune Insights to TLS 1.3 to enhance security.
Nerdio Manager: Security – Nerdio Manager no longer requires Azure Owner RBAC permissions for resource deployment and management, supporting a least privilege access model to align with best practices.
Nerdio Manager: API –Added new REST API endpoints to retrieve Nerdio Manager product update information, including current install details, available versions, and the installed version. For more details, see Update the Nerdio Manager application.
Nerdio Manager – The browser tab title structure has been updated to improve usability. It now appears as Settings – Nerdio Manager for Enterprise instead of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise – Settings, ensuring key context remains visible when tabs are truncated.
Nerdio Manager: New UI – The Host Pool assignments page has been updated to the new user interface.
Auto-shrink: Allow separate email for additional recipients. - Customers now have the ability to send a separate email to additional recipients with different body text. For more details, see Enable Personal Host Pool Auto-scaling.

Resolved Issues

Azure Virtual Desktop: Insights – The Connection Protocol graph now accurately reflects UDP and TCP connection types.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Auto-Scale – Scaling restriction tags are now considered when using multi-session host pools in user-driven mode.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – In certain scenarios, you may have received an error when creating a host pool with a Trusted Image.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Host pools – When deploying scripted actions on virtual machines in hibernation, these VMs now return to hibernation once the task is complete.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Tags – In certain scenarios that involve hibernation, errors would appear when applying tags.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Azure Local – Start VM on Connect will now work as expected for Azure Local Hybrid Host Pools.
Azure Virtual Desktop: Directory profiles - The join AD step was skipped after v7.0.2 if there was only one AD profile defined within Nerdio Manager.
Intune app policies – Errors no longer occur when creating or restoring an app protection policy.
UAM: SCCM integration – Application binary download speeds have been significantly enhanced, reducing import time for large files.
New UI enhancements – Various UI enhancements have been made, including improved element and notification placement, icon placement, typography corrections, color contrast, and pagination.
Azure SQL API - The SQL API version 2014-04-01 has been replaced by version 2024-05-01-preview due to the planned deprecation of version 2014-04-01.

Known Issues

Intune insights - In some environments, the upgrade to the 7.1 release of Intune Insights may fail, resulting in the error 500 (Internal Server Error) for the Intune insights page only. The current resolution for this issue is to disable and re-enable Intune Insights. For more details, see Intune Insights error when upgrading from NME 7.0 to 7.1
Note: All Intune insights resources will be deleted and reprovisioned as part of this operation, this will result in the loss of personalized content such as individual dashboards. This issue does not affect other areas of Nerdio Manager.

v7.0.4 GA (Release Date September 2, 2025)

Resolved Issues

We have identified a Microsoft Azure issue causing duplicate AVD host pools to populate within Nerdio Manager in certain regions. Microsoft is actively investigating the problem. Nerdio is releasing this version as a hotfix release to provide a workaround by masking the duplicate entries. It should be noted that resources themselves are not being duplicated within Azure Portal, but duplicates are being returned when querying via Azure ARM API. Microsoft Tracking ID: BV11-NR0 - https://app.azure.com/h/BV11-NR0/df37e8

v7.0.3 GA (Release Date May 19, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.0.2, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image – The selected Marketplace Image will now be retained when using the Refresh from Marketplace option.

v7.0.2 GA (Release Date May 6, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.0.1, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues

Azure Virtual Desktop: Desktop Image - Images will now update correctly when using the Refresh from Marketplace option.

v7.0.1 GA (Release Date April 16, 2025)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v7.0.0, plus the following items:

Console Connect (Public Preview) - With Console Connect, you can provide remote support for AVD session hosts, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and physical endpoints. In this public preview, the only supported region is United States. Additional regions of Europe, India, Australia, Japan, Canada, and Saudi Arabia are coming in future releases. For details, see Console Connect and Console Connect FAQs.

Resolved Issues

Desktop Admin RBAC users experienced permission errors when using the Global search functionality.
Multi-Session host pools, in some scenarios, may have sometimes incorrectly stopped recently created virtual machines that were created when the “Start on connect” option was enabled
Nerdio Copilot deployment issues.
WinGet Central Directory Corrupt error when querying for or installing packages from the public WinGet repository. We have added caching logic to minimize WinGet CDN issues in the future.
Various minor UI issues, including:
- Calendar views, checkboxes, drop-down boxes, secure variables, and multi-select options.

Agent Updates

AVD Agent 1.0.10004.2100
FSLogix 25.04 (3.25.401.15305)

Known Issues

Intune insights - The Intune insights UI does not currently support themes or dark mode. This will be resolved in a future release.
Intune insights - The warranty information for physical devices currently only supports Dell hardware. Support will be expanded to other vendors in a future release.
Intune insights - Intune insights sync button under certain conditions will generate a 404 error message. This will be resolved in a future release.

v7.0.0 Preview (Release Date April 8, 2025)

Nerdio Manager: Updated, modern UI (Public Preview) – The AVD Workspace and Settings modules now offer a preview of the new Nerdio Manager UI, including host pool health indicators.
Console Connect (Private Preview) - With Console Connect, you can now provide remote support for AVD session hosts, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and physical endpoints.
Intune insights (Public Preview) – Review and export detailed Intune device status reports to simplify device management and enhance compliance.
Windows 365 Insights (Public Preview) – Review the status and usage details for your Windows 365 Cloud PC estate, including Advisor recommendations.
Nerdio Advisor: Platform TCO (Public Preview) - With Platform TCO Advisor, you can assess your currently deployed AVD personal or Windows 365 Enterprise estate. The tool provides granular TCO insights, including administrative overheads and backup requirements, and compares them against alternative platforms to determine the true TCO of your desktops.
Nerdio Advisor: License suitability (Cloud PC) – Review license recommendations for your currently deployed Windows 365 desktops, including consolidation options from Windows 365 Enterprise to Frontline.
Nerdio Advisor: Right-sizing (Cloud PC) – Review Cloud PC right sizing and license reclamation opportunities, ensuring that the desktop estate meets your users’ needs while remaining optimized.
Nerdio Advisor: Modeler for Windows 365 - With the new modeling tool, you can now plan your Windows 365 Cloud PC deployments.
AVD: Host pool profiles – Assign and manage all aspects of a host pool’s configuration. Set multiple profile types for multiple host pools in the same action.
Nerdio Manager AI: Analytics Pro (Public preview) - With Analytics Pro, you can generate Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries using natural language input. This streamlines data interaction for IT professionals, data analysts, and engineers.
New Windows 365 licensing option – The new licensing option provides greater flexibility and scalability for Cloud PC management, with functional enhancements beyond the base Intune Physical license type.
Windows 365 alerting – Configure alerts for Cloud PC-specific conditions, such as Azure network connection issues, provisioning failures, and custom image upload issues.
Intune alerting - Configure alerts for Intune devices, including issues with Configuration Profile, Compliance policies, application deployment, and more.
CIS Intune policy templates (Preview) - Implement CIS Level 1 policies in Intune to achieve consistent compliance, minimize risks associated with misconfigurations, and protect devices from common threats.
Windows 365 assignments dashboard – The Cloud PC assignments dashboard simplifies the large-scale management of your Cloud PC devices, allowing you to view desktops as descendants of the provisioning policy. You can now also view configured Cloud PC alerts from the Cloud PC Alerts tab.
Nerdio Manager insights: Health – Review the high-level status of Nerdio Manager’s major components. The Health page provides detailed graphs featuring various metrics for your environment.
AVD: H.265 encoding for GPU-enabled desktops – You can now enable H.265 encoding on supported VM images (N-Series) in each host pool.
AVD: Clone settings to existing pool – You can now copy the full host pool properties configuration from an existing host pool to one or multiple target host pools using the new Apply to other host pools option.
AVD: Host pool Status indicator – Nerdio Manager now displays a status indicator for each host pool in the list. This provides an at-a-glance view of pools with session hosts that have issues.
AVD: Multi-select and bulk actions for host pools – Perform actions on multiple host pools simultaneously, such as deploying scripted actions. Multi-select for pools across pages is also supported.
AVD: Pre-staging for user-driven mode on single-session pools – For dedicated personal host pools, you can now configure separate pre-staging schedules when using user-driven mode with Auto-scale.
AVD: Local administrator credentials – You now have additional options when configuring the password for the local administrator account, including password randomization and the option to deactivate the account after provisioning.
AVD: Export active user sessions from console – You can now export a list of active user sessions currently running in your environment.
FSLogix profiles: Override individual FSLogix storage path setting. - You can now override the default storage path of FSLogix profiles using the host pool properties menu.
FSLogix profiles: End-user portal reset for shared host pools - End users can now reset their own FSLogix profiles through the User self-service portal.
Nerdio Manager: Support for cross-tenant managed identity – You can now use a managed identity to link additional tenants.
Nerdio Manager: The installation process has been optimized.
Nerdio Manager disaster recovery: SQL failover group policy selection – If SQL disaster recovery is configured, the failover policy for the Nerdio Manager SQL failover group may now be set directly from the Nerdio Manager UI.
Scripted Actions: Keyword search support – Script search now includes keywords, making it easier to find scripts within the repository.
Scheduled tasks: Naming enhancement – You can now assign custom names to scheduled tasks for easier identification.
AVD: Configurable locations for host pool objects – Host pool resource is now created in the resource group selected for the modified host pool.
AVD: New filters – Included in Auto-scale and Not running filters are now available on the session hosts page.
Nerdio Manager API: Secondary FSLogix profile via API for disaster recovery (DR) scenarios – Nerdio Manager API now supports secondary fields for DR setups that require a separate configuration for the DR deployment.
Nerdio Manager API: Set application group name – Nerdio Manager API now matches the GUI functionality, allowing you to specify the application group when creating host pools.
Nerdio Manager Insights – The Dashboard menu has been renamed to Insights. and now includes all new and existing dashboard functionality in a more structured layout.

Resolved Issues

Intune scoping – For AVD devices, the Include devices with no primary user setting now returns all scoped devices, whether they have a primary user or not. Devices with a primary user should respect any defined user group scoping.

Note: Windows 365 devices cannot be filtered by group. All Windows 365 Cloud PCs are returned.
UAM: Support for dynamic app groups in the Set as image schedule – For image application management, app groups are no longer converted to static lists upon assignment. Any changes to a dynamic app group are now reflected in the image assignment.
Resizable script and policy editor UI –You can now dynamically resize the script and policy editor for a more flexible and improved editing experience.
Settings menu changes – The Intune settings tile was moved from Azure environment to Integrations and the User Cost Attribution setting tile was moved from Integrations to Nerdio environment.
Nerdio Manager: AVD Admin RBAC role renamed to Admin – To better reflect the role’s global administrator function in the product, AVD Admin role has been renamed to Admin.
Global search: NetApp file shares – You can now use the global search feature to find NetApp file shares.
Confirmation requests for disruptive actions – A confirmation dialog is now displayed before you perform tasks that can be disruptive, such as resizing a VM or re-imaging all hosts in a pool. This helps you avoid accidental execution of disruptive tasks.
AVD: Deprecate non-ARM AVD object models – Starting with this release, Nerdio Manager no longer allows the creation of new Classic (non-ARM) host pools.
Nerdio Manager – Frequent reloading of the Nerdio Manager console may result in the error message: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time.
Nerdio Manager – Notifications for Product Updates Email & Webhook may not trigger as expected.
Nerdio Manager – Additional VM size price details have been added.
Nerdio Manager - Custom RBAC role could not access desktop optimizations within the Desktop Images module.
Nerdio Manager - when VMs are running with the incorrect OS disk type, a banner may not be surfaced to report the issue.
Nerdio Manager – The end user self-service portal may not show personal pools which exist in a different subscription to the parent workspace.
UAM – The Winget package manager install process on the target desktop may fail with the message: Element not found.
ControlUp – If the ControlUp agent fails to install, the VM may stay powered on and in drain mode.
ControlUp – If the VM provisioning process fails during Add Host or Reimage tasks, the ControlUp agent task may attempt to continue and will generate error messages.

Known Issues

Intune Insights – The Intune Insights UI does not currently support themes or dark mode. This will be resolved in a future release.
Intune Insights – The warranty information for physical devices currently only supports Dell hardware. Support will be expanded to other vendors in a future release.
New User Interface – The switcher option to use the new UI will not persist across sessions if the global option ‘Disable personal themes’ is configured.
Nerdio Copilot – The Nerdio Copilot deployment task for new and existing installs may take a long time. The error message 'Deployment response not empty' may be observed during the deployment. The deployment should be completed successfully within a 12 hour window

v6.7.4 GA (Release Date April 15, 2025)

Resolved Issues

UAM - WinGet 'Central Directory Corrupt error when querying for, or installing packages from the public WinGet repository. We have added caching logic to minimize WinGet CDN issues in the future.

v6.7.3 GA (Release Date April 4, 2025)

Resolved Issues

UAM – Intune applications deployed via UAM application policies may generate an error due to the deprecation of the Intune API endpoint /deviceManagement/reports/getDeviceInstallStatusReport. This issue has been resolved by moving to the /retrieveDeviceAppInstallationStatusReport endpoint.

v6.7.2 GA (Release Date March 4, 2025)

Resolved Issues

Nerdio Modeler – Azure VM v6 SKU sizes have been added to the Nerdio Modeler.
Auto-Scale History – Users with Read-only RBAC access to a host pool can now access their Auto-Scale History.
Trusted Launch – Creating a new ‘Single user desktop (personal)’ pool with a trusted launch image resulted in an error ‘The Security type of this image does not match the virtual machine parameters’.
User Self-Service Portal – When users used the “Create a Desktop” option, they may not have been able to view the host pool name if it did not have a friendly name configured.
Azure Local – Images within the "Unmanaged Stack HCI images" section may not have appeared properly when trying to "Resize/Re-image" the hosts within the Hybrid Host Pools page.
Azure Local – References of Azure Stack HCI in the product have been updated to align with the Azure Local rebranding update from Microsoft.
User Cost Attribution (UCA) - User Cost attribution will now use heartbeat-based data by default. Usage fetching is deprecated and has been removed from the diagnostics UI. Learn more...
User Cost Attribution (UCA) - User Cost Attribution now supports a new 'Include All Costs' option in all new configurations. This option will need to be added to the configuration creation process. Additionally, a new 'Cost Filter' option is now supported in the request body for the BuildNewConfigurationSet endpoint.
Host pool DR - DR enabled host pools making use of ControlUp integration may see all VMs being synced to the primary region site and site folder on the ControlUp Monitor.
Desktop Images – Windows Server 2025 images have been made available for selection.
Unified Application Manager – When public repository synchronization is enabled for an app imported to a private repository, Nerdio Manager may generate an empty custom detection rule for new versions. Apps may fail to install despite the logs indicate success.
RemoteApp - the RemoteApp list of applications under Installed on Host may not be populated correctly in non-English OS scenarios.

Agent updates

The below agents are included in this release:

NEW - AVD Agent 1.0.10004.2100
NEW - FSLogix 25.02 (3.25.202.4223)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.7.1 GA (Release Date February 6, 2025)

Resolved Issues

Nerdio Manager DR – A warning banner is now surfaced if the required app service settings have been incorrectly applied at the App Service level, rather than the App Configuration level.
AVD - When the 'Back up VM before powering on' checkbox is selected as part of powering on a desktop image, the OS disk type is not swapped.
AVD – When provisioning a host pool via API, the process may fail when configuring rolling drain mode with the error (400) Bad Request.
Intune Integration – More efficient caching has been added to mitigate the error ‘Too many retries performed' on policy pages if large numbers of policy assignments are present. This change should reduce the messages; however the issue is on-going.
ControlUp Integration – In some scenarios, the ControlUp Monitor requires host removal tasks to be presented using FQDN. The App Service setting Features:ControlUpOptions:UseFqdn has been added to allow this. Learn More.
Custom Views – When creating a Custom View and choosing the “Only me” option under the “Visible to” dropdown, a tooltip has been re-added to inform the user that this option cannot be changed after creation.
Nerdio Manager Analytics – A detailed tooltip has been added to the "Active Users" graph within the Analytics page to explain its data.

v6.7.0 Preview (Release Date January 30, 2025)

Nerdio Manager: ScriptPro (Public Preview) – Nerdio Manager Copilot now includes Script Pro, a tool for building scripts which can be used to simplify administration in your environment. Please ensure that AI generated scripts are tested and validated manually before deployment to production environments.
AVD: Script Signing (Public Preview) - Nerdio Manager can automatically sign all VM extensions and scripted actions with a selected certificate so that they comply with configured PowerShell execution policies. This change applies to AVD session hosts and Images only.
End User Portal: Create VM –End users can now be given the ability to create and manage their own VMs from the Nerdio Manager end user portal. This feature offers benefits for development scenarios where a user may need to create and reprovision their own test desktops.
App Attach: Entra ID support – Entra ID joined hosts can now benefit from using App Attach applications, expanding the options for application delivery. This feature is supported for Azure Files file shares and is enabled at the file share level.
AVD: RemoteApp – The application import process now allows administrators to define a specific file path to the target application. This can help in scenarios where the target application does not register itself with windows installer, or where portable applications are required.
Auto-Scaling for Azure NetApp Files (ANF) – Customers may now use Auto-Scaling features for ANF volumes irrespective if Nerdio has expanded them initially. Previously, functions like auto-shrink were only available on Nerdio expanded volumes, now this functionality is available to all ANF volumes.
UAM: Synchronize latest version – When importing public applications into a private repository, administrators may now choose to synchronize future versions of the application, removing the need to download these individually.
UAM: Intune ‘single deployment’ support – Intune applications may now be deployed as ‘one time’ actions, without the need to create a recurring policy.
UEM: Intune Driver Management – Driver Update Policies may now be managed, and individual drivers may be approved for deployment from the Windows Update Policy tab.
UEM: App Policies - Intune Application Policies are now manageable for mobile devices (iOS/Android) and Microsoft Edge for Windows.
Azure Local: Bulk Actions – It is now possible to perform bulk actions on multiple hybrid hosts at the same time. These actions include: Resize/Re-image, Power on, Power off, Exclude from auto-scale, Deactivate, Activate, Delete, Run script on selected.
AVD: Patch Orchestration – The Nerdio VM Deployment options now include a dropdown option to choose the Patch Orchestration option.
Scripted action to enable hibernation – This scripted action allows for hibernation to be enabled on an existing VM with a hardware type which supports hibernation. Previously, a VM required a full rebuild to enable this functionality.
Nerdio Manager: Resource Groups Collapsed – To simplify the user experience and reduce visual noise, linked Azure resources such as Resource Groups are now collapsed on first view.
Custom Views: Host Pool Filter - A new filter for host pools in session hosts custom views has been added. The new filter allows user to filter entries within the scope of the custom view.
AVD: Tag changes logging – When a user changes tags on a desktop image, this action is now explicitly captured in the Nerdio logs.
User Cost Attribution – Customers still making use of the 'Usage fetching' option will receive a warning that they should move to Heartbeat based data assessment. Please refer to the UCA guidance documents for more details.

Resolved Issues

Azure Local – an error banner ‘the resource type could not be found’ may be observed in environments with Azure Local functionality enabled.
Azure Local - Only the default directory profile can be used, when creating hybrid host pool using Azure Local.
Nerdio Manager - Different Baseline and Burst IOPS figures are observed for storage accounts in NME compared with the Azure Portal.
Nerdio Manager – Localization issues meant that some applications could not be published to Remote App pools in non-English scenarios.
Nerdio Manager – Some customers are unable to press 'Save & close' when updating their client app secret within 'Manage client apps'.
AVD - when the 'Back up VM before powering on' checkbox is selected when powering on a desktop image, the OS disk type may not be swapped to the specified type.
UAM – When attempting to use Zip files for a package, clicking Save generates an error banner indicating Unzip option is allowed with .zip files only.
UAM – Customers were unable to configure a maintenance window for a deployment policy that crosses midnight. For example, if the start time is set as 10 PM and the end time is set as 2 AM.
Global Search – The global search feature would not return results if the user was not a member of the AVD Admins group.
API - The deprecated REST API endpoints and models were removed in v6.5, but the deprecated property "autoHealActions" was not removed. This has now been removed, and Swagger updated.

v6.6.1 GA (Release Date December 19, 2024)

This is a General Availability release that includes all the items in v6.6.0, plus the following items:

AVD: Image version expiry and removal – Azure Compute Gallery image versions can now be limited and automatically removed to avoid resource sprawl and excessive costs.
Nerdio API - The new option field "SourceHostPool" can be set on host pool creation. When a source host pool id is set, the new host pool is created by cloning the existing pool.

Resolved Issues

UAM: Deployment limits – The 20 application and 20 application group limits for UAM policies may now be individually adjusted via the new app service settings AppManagement:GroupAppLimit and AppManagement:PolicyAppLimit. Learn More.
Nerdio API - The Nerdio Rest API could not be used to assign a workspace that did not already have at least 1 assignment
Azure Local - Skip the synchronization with Stack HCI if the Resource provided is enabled but the Images resource type is not, and no Custom Locations are defined.
Nerdio Copilot – The persistent message ‘something went wrong’ has been resolved in the Nerdio Copilot.
Tag Management - the Manage Tags option on desktop images was not deleting tags if removed in the Nerdio console.
Nerdio Manager – The included SQL client has been updated.
Log Analytics - In scenarios where multiple Nerdio Manager installations exist, enabling monitoring on the host pools may incorrectly link the wrong workspace to the pool
UEM Policy Dashboard – An Intune policy filter has been added.
UEM Policy Backups – Policies deleted in the Nerdio console would also have their backups deleted, removing the ability to restore if needed. This has been resolved.

Agents

The below agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.9103.3700
FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.6.0 (Release Date December 12, 2024)

Nerdio Manager Reporting: Health Dashboard – The Nerdio Manager reporting page now includes additional dashlets, and detailed health metrics for the Nerdio Manager platform, host pools, storage, and Azure resources within your environment. We have added health metrics that offer monitoring for the Nerdio Manager platform, host pools, and storage. Learn more.
Rolling Drain Mode: Scale-in Aggressiveness (Premium) – Rolling Drain mode windows now allow customers to configure global scale-in aggressiveness for the pool during the window.
Windows 365: Cross Region DR Support – Take advantage of Windows 365’s ability to replicate Cloud PC’s to secondary locations. When activated, cross region disaster recovery temporarily creates a copy of the users’ Clouds PCs in an alternate region. More information.
Nerdio Manager: Managed Identity Support (Preview) – In single identity tenant scenarios, Nerdio Manager now supports configuring a User-Assigned Managed Identity as an alternative to the previously required Service Principal for linking additional subscriptions. Learn more.
AVD: Image Version Expiry and Removal – Azure Compute Gallery image versions can now be viewed and removed to avoid resource sprawl and excessive costs. Learn more.
AVD: Auto-Shrink Actions – A scripted action may now be run against the target host when the notification email is generated or at the point the shrink action is performed. Learn more.
AVD: Auto-Shrink Variables – New variables have been added to the Auto-shrink email to enhance the details provided to users. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager RBAC: Custom Dashboard role – This custom role allows for a least privilege permission providing read access to the complete Analytics dashboard and User Cost Attribution reports.
Nerdio Manager RBAC: Advisor enhancements –The Advisor custom role module now allows for RBAC management of VM Right Sizing rules and recommendations, as well as the Nerdio Modeler feature.
Nerdio Manager RBAC: Scripted Actions – The option to ‘Run scripted Action’ has been added to the Workspaces module, allowing assigned users to run scripted actions against session hosts.
Nerdio Manager: Custom Logo Enhancements – Customers may now apply their own custom branding to all portal users if desired. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution: Application Health Check – A new background check is performed on the UCA application during startup. This will assess the status of critical app components including the client secret and the storage account connection. A summary of the assessment has been added to the UCA integrations settings. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution: Power BI Connector & Template – Improved interface for ingesting multiple configurations, and the MAU table dependency has been removed to align with the UCA dashboard. Note: Users with existing multi-configuration Power BI reports will need to update both their template and connector versions simultaneously. Learn more and Learn more.
Unified Application Management: Shell Apps Versioning Support – Shell Apps may now be configured to deploy multiple separate versions, and UAM policies allow for the selection of versions for deployment. If needed, the install script may also be overridden on a per-version basis. Learn more.
Unified Application Management: AVD Host Pool Enhancements – UAM policies applied to an AVD host pool may now be directly removed from the Host Pool Properties view, with no requirement for the user to navigate to the UAM policy page. Learn more.
Unified Endpoint Management: Policy Reports – The compliance dashboard has been renamed ‘Policy Reports’ and now allows for the selection of dashboard types. This allows customers to review the status of policy assignment across all policy types. Previously, only Compliance Policies were displayed. Learn more.
Unified Endpoint Management: Policy Group Views – Intune policy reports may now include both the device and group deployment status, allowing customers to quickly discover the status of all devices within a group.
Unified Endpoint Management: JSON editor – The policy editing tool has been enhanced to support a context click menu for copy & paste operations, and also now includes IntelliSense functionality for property names and values based on the detected schema. Learn more.
Unified Endpoint Management: Orphaned Backups – Backups of policies which no longer exist are now highlighted and filterable within the policy backup user interface. Learn more.
AVD: Zone Redundant Disk Support – Nerdio Manager can now import and manage existing hosts with ZRS disks, allowing for greater resilience in the event of Azure datacenter connectivity issues.
FSLogix Settings – The below settings have been added to the FSLogix Profile feature. These are disabled by default.
Auto-Scale Insights: Automatic Loading – The Auto-scale Insights feature may now be configured to automatically load recommendations, avoiding the need to wait while these are generated after a manual button click.
Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) Enhancements - The desktop pool now includes details of the image used.
REST API – The additional API method PATCH has been added to allow management of the new RDP ShortPath setting via API, and the PUT method has been deprecated.

Known Issues:

Nerdio Manager Copilot - The Nerdio Manager Copilot may present a persistent error after upgrading to this version. A fix is planned for the GA release. If you rely on Nerdio Manager Copilot, please wait for information on the GA release before performing the upgrade.

Resolved Issues:

AVD: Enforce Intune compliance – In Entra ID joined scenarios, Nerdio Manager may not allow sufficient time for the host to be registered with Intune before marking the task as failed.
UCA: Power BI Template – User interface elements have been modified and some calculation inaccuracies have been resolved in the ‘Host Pools’ and ‘Shared Cost Detail’ views.
UAM: SCCM integration – In scenarios where customer SCCM environments store application binaries on network shares, the application import process may report ‘access denied’ on the share location for the service account, despite permissions being correct. Customers experiencing this issue must make modifications to their configuration to resolve this issue.
UAM: Unified Catalog Search – In rare scenarios, some packages retuned by the native Winget client were not shown as available in a Unified Catalog search.
UAM: Intune Deployments – Application deployment tasks for Intune devices may fail with the error ‘Unexpected error occurred during preflight step’.
UEM: Intune Devices – Customers with a large number of Intune devices under management may experience long load times when loading Intune devices from the ‘All Devices’ page. In some instances, customers may observe related timeout errors in the Nerdio Manager console.
Nerdio Manager: Log out - The Nerdio Manager console logout process has been modified to fully invalidate session tokens when a user logs out, ensuring that old tokens cannot be reused.
RBAC - Custom role display names were not sorted alphabetically.
Azure Local (Previously Azure Stack HCI) - Images with staged versions would fail to create.
Auto-scale - Additional hosts may be created in scenarios where a stop VM task was running against an existing host.
Auto Scale – Re-image tasks which encounter failures may result in only partial removal of the associated resources for the failed operation.
Nerdio Manager – In rare circumstances, SQL performance may be impacted by historic notification records in the database.
Auto Shrink – In some scenarios, scheduled auto-shrink tasks may run twice, and generate duplicate notifications.
Hibernation – Backup could not be enabled on personal host pools with Hibernation enabled.

v6.5.2 GA (Release Date November 18, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.5.1, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues:

Nerdio Manager RBAC – Users with multiple roles assigned are given the role with the least privileges. This occurs in scenarios where users have no direct assignments, but have multiple built-in roles assigned through groups.
Azure Stack HCI - Customers may receive the error 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' on some of their stack HCI session hosts.

v6.5.1 GA (Release Date November 11, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.5.0, plus the following items:

AVD: Proximity Placement Groups – Enhance the performance of your AVD workloads and backend apps by automatically assigning them to proximity placement groups, which benefit from low latency connectivity between members of the group.

Resolved Issues:

AVD – In some scenarios, AVD host pools with the ‘Enforce Intune compliance’ feature enabled may result in the host remaining in drain mode permanently, even after policy assignment has been completed.
UAM – On desktops using non-English language packs, application deployments may fail with the error "Some or all identity references could not be translated."
UAM – Multi-Entra ID policy creation and editing now shows the tenant’s friendly name, rather than the tenant ID.

Agents

The below agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.9103.3700
FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.5.0 (Release Date October 31, 2024)

Nerdio Manager: Native Reporting (Public Preview) – Review the status of your AVD desktop estate and usage patterns using the in-console Nerdio reporting engine, with no need to deploy additional agents to your estate. Learn more.
AVD: AI Powered Auto-scale Recommendations Preview (Premium) – Leverage the power of predictive AI to generate recommendations for auto-scale enabled host pools. Recommendations are surfaced in the Auto-scale Insights screen to help identify and resolve provisioning inefficiencies. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager: Multi-Region DR Support – The Nerdio Manager platform may now be configured for active / passive DR or active / active (HA) across multiple regions, removing dependency of on a single region for the management platform itself. Learn more.
AVD: Auto-scale Profile Enhancements – The settings Host Pool Size, Rolling Drain Mode, and Pre-Stage Hosts may now be independently configured on a per-host pool basis, offering much greater flexibility when using pre-defined auto-scale profiles.
Nerdio Manager: Multi-Select Enhancements – The multi-select feature is now pagination aware for host pools. Multi-select actions are retained across multiple pages of the same type, allowing for quicker assignment of actions to the target devices.
UAM: Shell App Support for Intune Devices – Nerdio Shell Apps now allows for complex scripted application deployment for Intune devices.
UEM: Automatic Policy Backup – Enable automated policy backup for Intune policies to ensure a backup of a policy is taken whenever the policy is edited, either in the Nerdio console or from the native Intune console. Learn more.
UEM: Intune Policy Library – Nerdio Manager now provides a native policy library of best practice Intune policy templates, which may be imported and deployed to your Intune estate. Learn more.
UAM: Multi-Entra ID Enhancements – For customers who are using Nerdio Manager to manage multiple Entra ID tenants, UAM policies may now be targeted to specific tenants and users within those tenants.
UAM: Policy Support for ASHCI Host Pools – Enhance your management of on-premises AVD resources using the Azure Stack HCI platform by applying UAM application policies to these desktops.
UEM: Policy Protection Enhancements – Changes to a policy, either by directly editing the settings or by modifying the assignments, now surface a warning and require users to confirm that they wish to modify the policy.
AVD: RDP ShortPath Settings – The settings for RDP ShortPath have been moved to the RDP Settings page of Host Pool properties, and the options now reflect those available in the native AVD console. Customers making use of the existing Nerdio RDP ShortPath settings should revert the deprecated setting to ‘Default’ and make new selections for the newly published options if desired. Learn more.
AVD: Dev Box Images – Azure Dev Box provides the ability to create a development workstation in the cloud. Dev Box images are now available to select within the Nerdio Manager for Commercial Cloud customers.
RBAC: Nerdio Modeler – Allow users to create and manage models within the Nerdio Manager console without any access to manage other areas of the product.
User Cost Attribution: Data Export Enhancements (Premium) - An improvement to our anonymization tool that better identifies VMs and Host Pools across the different raw data sources, and anonymizes them using matching keys.
User Cost Attribution: API Enhancements (Premium) - Change current endpoint to add host pool specific MAU details with the following fields (Host Pool Name, MAU count, month-year).
UAM: Private Repository Enhancements - When creating a private repository, Nerdio Manager now allows customers to select pre-created resources in their preferred region.
App Attach – When selecting the console option to ‘Package MSIX’, Windows 11 images may now be selected for the temporary packaging VM.
Advisor: AVD Modeler – Center for Internet Security (CIS) images have been added to Modeler.
Nerdio Copilot – A new version of the Nerdio Copilot is included with this release, with general enhancements to the question and response processing. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager: New release notifications – Receive alerts when new general availability (GA) versions of Nerdio Manager are available.
Scripted Action: Enable Winget Functionality – Some secure images, including the recently included CIS images, have Winget functionality disabled by default, which restricts the ability to deploy UAM applications to desktops created from these images. This new scripted action allows customers to easily re-enable this functionality if desired.
Azure Runbook: Create NAT Gateway - With the imminent retirement of default outbound access for Azure VMs, this script creates a a public IP address and NAT Gateway, and associates it with the given subnet. Learn more.

Resolved Issues:

AVD: Azure Capacity Extender - If Azure reports a capacity error, but the VM object is still present, Nerdio now removes the failed VM object and re-tries provisioning with an alternate capacity extender size.
AVD: Host Creation - When manually adding session hosts to a Host Pool the VM Size chosen did not match the VM size configured in the auto scale configuration, leading to inconsistent VMs being created.
AVD: User Sessions auto-refresh – The user sessions page now includes an active auto-refresh feature which runs every 10 minutes to provide more accurate details.
AVD: Rolling Drain Mode – Hosts placed in drain mode via the RDM feature may unexpectedly be removed from, and later re-added to, drain mode.
AVD: Reimage failure cleanup – In the event of a failed re-imaging task, Nerdio Manager may fail to remove the NIC object.
AVD: Linking additional subscription resources – Standard and Core license customers could not link AVD resources in additional tenants.
ControlUp integration – The ControlUp tab of the host pool properties may take over 10 minutes to load. This is resolved.
AVD Modeler – Reserved Instance calculations have been removed from the modeler tool.
UAM - The use of the Credential Manager module has been removed from this release, and the local account used for application deployment now has additional security modifications applied.
UAM - The Cosmos database used for private Winget repositories has been modified to use TLS 1.2 by default. Existing deployments will be upgraded when deploying the Nerdio Manger 6.5 release.
User Cost Attribution - Session host fetching in multi-subscription scenarios would not capture all session hosts from secondary subscriptions, leading to incomplete VM <-> Host Pool mappings.
User Cost Attribution - Due to the configuration name length limit of 30 characters, part of the name was truncated if the configuration was archived

v6.4.4 GA (Release Date November 18, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.4.3, plus the following items:

Resolved Issues:

Nerdio Manager RBAC – Users with multiple roles assigned are given the role with the least privileges. This occurs in scenarios where users have no direct assignments, but have multiple built-in roles assigned through groups.

v6.4.3 GA (Release Date October 21, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.4.2, plus the following resolved items:

FSLogix app masking – When creating rules, Nerdio Manager incorrectly introduced white space into the rules file which led to the generated rule file showing as blank when compiled.

v6.4.2 GA (Release Date October 10, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.4.1, plus the following resolved items:

AVD - Windows 24h2 images have been added to Nerdio Manager’s image list.
UAM – For environments with a large number of SCCM applications and packages, the exported metadata may exceed the default PowerShell file transfer limit of 200MB. A filtration option has been added as a workaround for this issue. Learn more.

v6.4.1 GA (Release Date September 26, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.4.0, plus the following items:

Nerdio Manager – The export of filtered logs from the LOGS page resulted in all logs being exported, rather than the filtered set as displayed in the console.
AVD – Re-image tasks may occasionally fail due to resource cleanup tasks not completing successfully.
Multi-Entra ID – Resource groups in linked tenants may not be added to Nerdio Manager if the setting ‘Enable AVD resource management’ was set to ‘Off’.
UEM – The ability to scope UEM to specific groups or device types on the Intune permissions management page may be hidden if ‘Intune Managed Devices’ is set to ‘Read Only’.
User Cost Attribution – Orphaned role assignments are now cleaned up if User Cost Attribution is disabled.
User Cost Attribution – A warning is now surfaced if the User Cost Attribution secret is seen to have expired.
Notifications - Tooltips have been added to the notifications SMTP page.

Agent updates

The below agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.9103.3700
FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.4.0 Preview (Release Date September 19, 2024)

Nerdio Copilot – Leverage an AI-based assistant to quickly search for information about Nerdio Manager, its features, and functions.
Center for Internet Security (CIS) Images – Customers may now take advantage of hardened CIS images from the Azure Marketplace directly in the Nerdio Manager console. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager Zone Resilience – The Nerdio Manager webapp may now be configured using Azure availability zones, which are physically separate groups of datacenters within each Azure region. This feature provides DR functionality for the Nerdio Manager console within the deployed region. Learn more.
UEM: iOS and MacOS device support – Intune managed iOS and MacOS devices can now be managed from the UEM console. Simplify device and policy management and save time on administrative tasks.
Cumulative RBAC for Custom Roles – Multiple custom roles may now be assigned to the same user via group inheritance and the user access will be cumulative, providing RBAC from all assignments. Learn more.
Auto-scale Insights enhancements – The Auto-scale insights chart now includes detailed information about active and disconnected sessions. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution Enhancements:
- Support for multiple log analytics workspaces has been added to this release.
- 'One-click' support log functionality has been added to simplify troubleshooting tasks, and the Report Validation function has been nested within the Download Logs page Learn more.
- Support for customized deployment of User Cost Attribution resources has been added in this release. Customers may create resources first in Azure directly and select these in Nerdio Manager from the Settings tile when enabling UCA. Learn more.
- The following additional currencies are now supported for UCA: Brazilian Real (R$),
  Swiss Franc (CHF), Indian Rupee (₹), Japanese Yen (¥), Korean Won (₩), Norwegian Krone (NOK), Russian Rubles (₽), Swedish Krona (SEK), Taiwan Dollar (TWD), Chinese Yuan (CNY). Previously UCA supported: US Dollars ($), Euros (€), GB Pounds (£), CA Dollars ($), AU Dollars ($), NZ Dollars ($).
- This release of Nerdio Manager has a new UCA Power Bi template available (1.1.11.1). The template file makes formatting changes to support currency symbols for certain currencies with multiple chars i.e. now supports DKK with 'kr.' It has also been tested to ensure support for a longer list of currencies.
Support for NVMe disk types – AVD hosts can now take advantage of the NVMe storage type for VM sizes which support this.
RemoteApp Imports - The RemoteApp import function now automatically assigns imported applications to a detected target App Group. Administrators also have the option to select a preferred App Group, either globally or per-application.
FSLogix Profiles: Exclude the local administrator group – The FSLogix profile feature now allows for the exclusion of the local administrators group from the target desktop.
UAM: Export Intune LOB Applications Public Preview – Extract Intune application binaries for review and import into the Unified Catalog. In this second preview release, Nerdio Manager supports the extraction of LOB and Win32 applications.
UAM: Workspace policy assignment – Policies may now be assigned at the workspace level as well as the host pool level to simplify the deployment of applications. Learn more.
UAM: Host pool policy review – Policy assignments can now be seen from the host pool properties screen. Additional policies may now be added from this screen if required.
UAM: Custom detection enhancements – Optionally specify a file version and/or product version for the target file when creating custom detection rules for UAM applications.
UAM: RBAC for repository management – Write access restrictions to individual repositories and policy editing restrictions can now be implemented using the new RBAC roles. Learn more.
Custom Role for FSLogix Profile management (Azure Files) – Administrators can now search for and remove FSLogix profiles without the need for an active user session, and without the need to provide full control to the file share. Learn more.
UEM: Intune Compliance Policy dashboard – View and export the status of all in-scope Intune compliance policies in a single dashboard. Learn more.
UEM: Windows Update functional enhancements – Driver updates are now supported in the Nerdio manager console, as well as the ability to pause, resume and uninstall updates.
App Attach - The ‘Users and Groups’ and ‘Host Pools’ configuration pages for App Attach v2 have been combined into a single ‘Assignments’ page for simplified management.
Assigned Roles details – To support the addition of Cumulative RBAC functionality, users with custom roles can check their entitlements and any detected conflicts from the then ‘Assigned Roles’ option in the user sign-out dropdown.
Scripted Action: Install EZEEP printer drivers - Customers making use of EZEEP print management solution can now use a Nerdio scripted action to install the printer driver software package.
AI Description generation – This functionality is now supported for UAM application policies. Learn more. Learn more.
API enhancements – functions for linking Azure files storage and creating an FSLogix profile have been added.

Resolved Issues:

AVD: When attempting to clone an image to a new region, an error indicating that the name length exceeds 15 characters may be seen, even if the specified name is below 15 characters.
AVD: Powered-off host were not placed in drain mode if started to run maintenance activities such as scripted actions.
AVD: The task ‘Preflight data for Advisor’ may repeatedly fail at the ‘get data collection rules’ step.
AVD: RDP ShortPath rules may be over-written in the Azure console if custom settings exist. Please us the app service setting Features:HostPoolPatchWorkaround with a value of True to resolve this issue if detected.
AVD: In some scenarios, the Auto Scale process may create 'add host' tasks with duplicate host names.
UAM: existing policies did not automatically show the in-scope groups or devices when edited. These are now shown by default.
Scripted Actions: The ‘Move VM to Availability Zone’ script has been updated with support for Encryption at Host functionality and includes rollback ability in case of failure.
Browser compatibility: Some fields on the Azure Capacity Extender (ACE) may appear non-functional when edited using Chrome or Edge.
App Masking rules: Non-Latin characters in the rule properties generated unusable rule files with invalid characters.
User Cost Attribution: Detailed exports were missing the 'VmType' field.
User Cost Attribution: Forced cost fetching was not available for old reports.
User Cost Attribution: The '3-day trend' report page provided an incorrect visualization.

v6.3.3 GA (Release Date September 3, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.3.2, plus the following items:

Upgrades: The console-based update process for Nerdio Manager using the Azure RunAs account may result in the error message System.OutOfMemoryException, leading to a failed upgrade. This has been partially resolved. Updates are recommended to be performed via CloudShell or via the Zip Deploy method for this release. This issue is expected to be fully resolved in the 6.4 preview release. Please refer to deployment method 2 or 4 in this article for more information.
AVD: The 'encryption at host' function for AVD desktops reported as successful, however disk encryption may not have been enabled.
UEM: The Intune device console may display the error message SyntaxError: Unexpected Token in restricted networking scenarios. This issue is mitigated with this release.
UAM: In certain scenarios, the UAM installation results may show the results from a different application in the policy.

v6.3.2 GA (Release Date August 22, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.3.1, plus the following items:

Set as Image could fail for desktop images with Trusted Launch and Confidential Compute enabled. We now ensure that the desktop image has a gallery definition that supports these features.
Resolved an issue with ‘Extension not found’ errors and AD Join extension failures for Azure Stack HCI AVD session hosts.

v6.3.1 GA (Release Date August 15, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.3.0, plus the following items:

User Cost Attribution App Registration: This allows customers to pre-create the Entra application required for User Cost Attribution. This is useful for cases where Nerdio admins don't have Entra privileges to create an application, and the identity team has to create it for them.
Update List of FSLogix Registry Options: The newest version of FSLogix introduced a new setting - GroupPolicyState, which is now supported.

Resolved issues:

App Attach Upload MSIX Packages not working 6.2. This is now resolved with 6.3.
Updates to API Documentation for support prefix and pattern. The API supports both, however the API name suggests we only support prefix.
Update API/PowerShell Module For New-NmeLinkedNetworks. This was failing via the API and is now resolved.
Intune: Key Not Found Exception. An issue appeared in device details on the Compliance Tab which lead to the “Key Not Found Exception."
RBAC for UAM policies. There are some known regressions after introduction of RBAC for UAM policies. These have now been addressed.
Cloud PC - Internal Server Error for Scripts when disabling License Optimization.

Agent Updates

The following agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.9103.3700
FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.3.0 (Release Date August 8, 2024)

AVD Multi Entra ID Support (Premium) – Link multiple Entra ID tenants and directly manage AVD resources across all linked tenants. Assign and manage users from the linked tenant to host pools in their tenant. Assign UAM applications to host pools in the linked tenants. Learn more.
Auto-scale Insights Public Preview (Premium) – Review a graphical representation of auto-scale behavior of pooled host pools comparing session capacity to user demand. Discover anomalies and identify situations where capacity is under or over-provisioned. Recommendations on how to enhance auto-scale behavior will be added in the future. Learn more.
AVD: On-Demand Capacity Reservations – Configure your host pools to make use of existing on-demand capacity reservations within Azure. These can be combined with Reserved Instances to reduce cost and guarantee availability. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager ‘Offline Mode’ – For secure environments, Nerdio Manager now comes packaged with binaries required to perform image and host management tasks, with no requirement to connect to a remote Nerdio-managed storage location. Some binaries may still be required from vendor-provided locations. Learn more.
Webhook-based Alerting –Customers can now configure webhook integration to surface alerts into supported platforms, such as Teams channels. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution: Version Check - Upgrade UCA reporting capability independently without waiting for the next Nerdio Manager for Enterprise release. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution: HTTPS & 64-bit Enabled - Enhanced security of Azure app service for UCA is now enabled by default.
UAM: Role Based Access Control – Control access to your Unified Application Management policies and delegate policy management tasks to others.
UAM: Export Intune Win32 Applications Public Preview – Extract Intune application binaries for review and import into the Unified Catalog. In this preview release, Nerdio Manager supports the extraction of Win32 applications only. Learn more.
UEM: Configuration Issues Dashboard –Quickly identify Intune policy conflicts that are affecting devices, and discover the source policies that are causing the conflict for quicker issue resolution. Learn more.
UEM: Policy Versioning Enhancements – Compare policy changes across versions in a side-by-side view with highlighting to simplify the detection of changes or issues. Related topic.
UEM: Windows Update Ring Management - Update rings can now be managed directly in the UEM console, allowing for deployment schedules and the user experience to be configured.
AI-Driven Personally-Identifiable Information (PII) Alerts – Receive intelligent alerts when PII is discovered within Nerdio Manager logs. This feature requires Azure AI services to be enabled. Note: Re-using an account for the PII detector is not supported. A user must select a new account when they re-enable PII detector.Learn more.
AI-Driven Description Generation – Save time by automatically populating the Host Pool description field with accurate AI generated text. This feature requires Azure AI services to be enabled. Learn more.
Trusted Launch Integrity Monitoring –This feature for Trusted Launch enabled hosts add the ability to validate the health of device boot actions. Related topic.
Specialized Image Creation – New images can now be provisioned during Sysprep as Specialized, as well as Generalized. This can help to resolve some application compatibility issues for pre-installed applications on a master image that are otherwise negatively affected by Sysprep.
REST API: vTPM and Secure Boot functionality can now be configured from the Nerdio Manager API. Learn more.

Resolved Issues:

FSLogix Profiles – The profile redirection feature now presets a warning if the RedirXMLSourceFolder registry value is pointing to a network location, with guidance on how to configure the required ‘redirections.xml’ file.
UEM: No Intune Devices Found – The error ‘Syntax Error: Unexpected token’ may be observed on the ‘All devices’ page. NOTE: Customers should use group based scoping with a limited subset of devices if this issue is experienced.
UEM: Device Wipe – The action may fail immediately with an error if no additional check boxes are selected for the task.
RDP Profiles: The Default RDP Profile may not be saved to the assigned host pool.
Azure Stack HCI - Custom images saved to the cluster from Nerdio fail to build new VMs due to a failed custom script extension.
User Cost Attribution: Diagnostics Settings - The diagnostics assessment task did not run automatically when the function was disabled then enabled.
User Cost Attribution: Reporting – Per-host pool costs may be reported incorrectly or may display an error on refresh.
Associating VMs -The Associate VM task timing out loading resources when adding single VMs.
Secure Variables - Variables filtered to select scripted actions were not displayed correctly and could not be applied.
SCCM and Intune integration – These 2 functions have been nested under a new ‘Integrations’ menu item.

Feature Changes:

Items moving from private preview to public preview:
- Auto-scale Insights
- UAM: Export Intune Win32 Applications
Items moving from to public preview to general availability:
- N/A
Deprecated Items
- Obsolete REST API endpoints. Learn more.

v6.2.1 GA (Release Date July 3, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.2.0, plus the following items:

Resolved issues:

FSlogix Versions: Downgrading of the FSlogix version was not possible. This can now be performed if the option "Force the installation of FSLogix apps even if already installed" is selected.
FSLogix Profiles: When using the All Settings edit mode, the ‘ProfileType’ setting was saving as a String value instead of DWORD.
Nerdio Manger: Cloudshell based deployments of Nerdio Manager may not perform authentication correctly, leading to deployment failure.
Resource Rules: The function of the selector option for local storage was reversed, resulting in incorrect selections.
Unified Endpoint Management: Dynamic groups were seen as available for selection, leading to an error as dynamic groups may not be manually updated.
Unified Endpoint Management: Selecting an application within the devices page did not present the application details.
Unified Endpoint Management: When applying Intune policies to a hybrid AVD host during deployment, the error ‘Intune device not found’ may occur. The ‘Intune compliance timeout’ value now allows for Intune device joins as part of the specified window.
Unified Application Management: Intune applications cannot be deployed directly to host pools, however these applications were listed on the ‘Deploy applications’ popup for host pools. This option has been removed.
Host Pool Management: Updating host pool friendly name disables AVD maintenance window.

Agent updates:

The below agents are included in this release:

AVD Agent 1.0.8431.2300
FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.2.0 (Release Date June 26, 2024)

FSLogix Version Management – The desired FSLogix version deployed to hosts can now be managed, allowing administrators greater control over their desktop estate. Related topic.
Nerdio Manager: Database Storage Management – A database log retention option is now available under the ‘Nerdio Environment > Nerdio Manager database resilience’ menu to limit the size of the database and reduce the associated costs. Related topic.
User Self Service: Scheduled Notifications (Premium) – Host pool and global notifications may now be scheduled, allowing for automatic display during the scheduled window only. Multiple notifications are also now supported at the global level. Related topic.
Automatic AVD Assignment Removal – This option allows for the automatic removal of a user’s assignment to an App group when their assigned host is removed. This can be useful in dedicated scenarios, such as Auto-Shrink actions. This feature requires that the user must be assigned directly rather than as a group member. Related topic.
Nerdio Manager: Permission Optimizations (GA Release) – The global ‘Directory.Read.All’ permission can now be removed and replaced with a more granular permission set, reducing the permissions required. Learn more.
UAM: Application Groups – Simplify your application deployment tasks by creating Application Groups. These can be deployed via UAM policy, avoiding the need to select applications individually. Related topic.
UAM: Shell Apps: Zip Archive Support – Shell Apps packages can now optionally extract .ZIP archives, allowing for multiple files to be deployed via a single script. When this feature is used, the script context is automatically set to the temporary folder, so that further tasks can be performed. Related topic.
UAM: SCCM Support for Scripted Installs (Premium) – Scripted installers including PS App Deployment Toolkit packages can now be imported directly from SCCM to a Shell Apps repository as .ZIP archives. Related topic.
UAM: Enhanced Logging – Application deployment logging now includes the friendly name of the application, rather than just the unique identifier.
App Attach Image Page Enhancements – Packages and images are now divided across tabs to provide a more logical view of Nerdio App Attach images and the location of the associated packages. Related topic.
App Attach Wizard Enhancements – App Attach package metadata is now cached after staging, removing the need to select an existing host pool to create this data if it has been cached previously.
UEM: Unified Device View – Windows 365 Cloud PC devices, properties, and actions are now combined into the single ‘All Devices’ menu. The Windows 365 settings menu remains to allow for W365 configuration management. This change may be reverted from the Intune configuration page, if desired. Related topic.
UEM: Move a Cloud PC – Windows 365 Cloud PCs can now be migrated across regions using the Nerdio Windows 365 Cloud PC provisioning policy. Please see this article for more information. Related topic.
UEM: Cloud PC Status Enhancements – The UEM console now displays the power state and last action status for Cloud PCs (if available).
Nerdio Manager: Enhanced Restore Support (GA release) – From version 6.2 GA onwards, Nerdio Manager offers a simple restore option for the Nerdio Manager platform. This feature will allow customers to roll back to version 6.2 or later from any future version directly from the updates page. Related topic.
Specialized Image Support – Customers can now import and make use of existing Sysprep Specialized images as well as Generalized images. This can be valuable in scenarios where image generalization results in undesirable results such as broken applications.
ControlUp integration – The Registration Key field has been added to support ControlUp’s new outbound communication function (ControlUp v9.0 onwards). Related topic.
Scripted Actions: Custom Image Templates – These actions have been updated to the latest 2024-03-27 version.
Scripted Actions: Advanced Clipboard Controls – Configure clipboard availability via this new scripted action.
REST API Enhancements – Auto-scale Profiles can now be managed via the REST API.
Resolved Issues:
1. Nerdio Manager Migration - Customers who already have encryption keys in a storage account had no way to move the storage account to the destination region, resource group, or subscription.
2. Auto-scale – Scaling may fail if there are unassociated hosts where Nerdio Manager cannot find the host.
3. Auto-scale - During scale-in events after scale-in restrictions end, multiple activate and deactivate actions may be observed on a VM.
4. Nerdio Manager Actions - For new installs, all Nerdio Manager scripts required in the preparation and deployment of desktops are now included in the install package and are not dynamically copied from a remote storage location.
5. Nerdio Manager Permissions - The global ‘Directory.Read.All’ permission is no longer requested for new deployments.
6. Currency – Danish Krone (DKK) has been added as a supported currency type (GA release).
7. UAM: SCCM integration – The error ‘'CMSite disk was not found' may be observed if SCCM has not been installed to the system drive. The App service setting Features:SccmForceCreateCMSiteDrive has been added to allow the creation of the CMSite disk as part of the discover process.
8. Global Search – A number of newer features were not available via the global search option (GA Release).
9. Desktop Images: compute gallery image versions may not be visible for images created outside of Nerdio.
10. DevOps scripted actions – Synchronization may fail with the error message: Parameter 'downloadLink' have unsupported type 'object'.

v6.1.6 GA (Release Date July 1, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.1.5, plus the following resolved issues:

GPU driver installation – GPU drivers were failing to install for Nvidia hardware due to changes to the Azure extensions.

v6.1.5 GA (Release Date June 14, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.1.4, plus the following resolved issues:

Host Pool visibility in linked subscriptions – In certain RBAC scenarios, administrators may not be able to view Host Pools in secondary subscriptions.

v6.1.4 GA (Release Date June 11, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.1.3, plus the following resolved issues:

GPU driver installation – GPU drivers were failing to install for both AMD & Nvidia hardware due to changes to the Azure extensions.

v6.1.3 GA (Release Date June 5, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.1.2, plus the following resolved issues:

Intune Integration– When Intune integration is enabled, customers may experience a delay in AVD host creation even if no Entra ID groups have been assigned to the host pool.

v6.1.2 GA (Release Date June 3, 2024)

This is a GA hotfix release that includes all the items in v6.1.1, plus the following resolved issues:

Custom RBAC roles– Where the workspace scope was set to 'Any', host pools within the workspaces may not be visible to users.

v6.1.1 GA (Release Date May 24, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.1.0, plus the following features and resolved issues:

Custom Image support for temporary VM Actions – Use custom images for temporary VM tasks, including file share and App Attach image creation.
Entra ID group join enhancement - The timeout for hybrid resources has been increased to 30 minutes by default, and this setting is adjustable on the ‘Host pool properties>VM Deployment’ page.

Resolved issues:

User Cost Attribution: A new diagnostic tool has been added to compare reported costs against raw Azure costs.
User Cost Attribution: Heartbeat based usage data has been introduced to mitigate the depreciation of an Azure API. Learn More
Nerdio API: Intune compliance enforcement functionality has been added to the Nerdio Manager API.
Nerdio API: Specifying directory settings is now supported via the Nerdio manager host pool creation API.
NME Migration: Migration tasks are now supported via Azure CloudShell.
Entra ID group join: In some scenarios, customers may see a delay in the group join operation. Additional logging has been added to support a future resolution.
Auto Scale: The personal desktop pools ‘Running disk’ selector may be disabled with the message 'disk type is not compatible with the current pre-stage configuration', preventing the selection of any Premium SSD disks.
Host Pool creation: When creating a new Host Pool and selecting 'Entra ID' as the identity, the 'Validation Environment' option can now be selected manually.
Image creation: Images were not created with trusted launch enabled when trusted launch was selected. This may also have occurred with images converted to Trusted Launch from Standard.
Windows 365 Cloud PC: Customers may see the following message on the Cloud PC management page: ‘SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input’.
VM Right Sizing: Where dedicated hosts have been used by multiple users, the message ‘Unable to read from Log Analytics Workspace’ may be seen.
VM Right-Sizing: VM Memory assessment for identical memory values returned inaccurate ‘increase’ or ‘decrease’ percentages.
Unified Application Management: Customers deploying applications to Intune may receive the message “Error occurred during Intune policy preflight: tooManyRetries”

Agent updates

The below agents are included in this release:

NEW - AVD Agent 1.0.8431.2300
NEW - FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471)
Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0

v6.1.0 (Release Date May 16, 2024)

Rolling Drain Mode: Load Balancing (Premium) – When creating a rolling drain mode window, administrators can now select the preferred load balancing algorithm for the pool for each window. Load balancing reverts to the pool default at the start of the next day.
Multiple Email Notifications for Personal Desktop Deletion (Premium) – Administrators can now send multiple notifications to a user when their desktop is scheduled for deletion, with a configurable frequency. A final email is always sent 1 day before the scheduled deletion.
Advisor: VM Right-Sizing Enhancements (Premium) – Administrators can now define what VM sizes can be suggested, including the ability to detect quotas and avoid recommendations for selected sizes where no quota exists.
App Attach Deployment Wizard –App Attach v2 packages can now be quickly assigned to multiple host pools via a friendly wizard-driven interface.
Nerdio Console: Performance Improvements – Significant improvements have been made to console UI loading times for host pools in large environments.
UAM: Secure Variables for Shell Apps – Define and use custom secure variables in your application deployments to obscure sensitive information within the scripts. Learn more.
Export Intune Device Logs – The request logs feature for AVD hosts now captures both the Intune Management Extension (IME) logs and the event viewer “Enterprise Diagnostics Provider” logs.
UEM: Manage LAPS Password – The local administrator password (LAPS) can now be viewed and rotated within device properties if the administrator has a privileged management RBAC role.
UEM: Compliance Enforcement – If enabled, AVD hosts can now be required to meet either Intune compliance policy requirements (default) or all Intune policy type requirements before being made available to users.
Scripted Action Timing for ‘Create’ Operations – When building a new VM, by default, ‘immediate’ scripted actions wait for the completion of the VM join operations before running. A new app service setting has been added to perform the chosen scripted action tasks before all other tasks.
File Share Naming – Azure File Shares and Storage Accounts now allow the creation of a friendly name in the Nerdio Manager console for simple identification.
UAM: Storage Account for Shell Apps: An existing storage account can now be selected when creating a Shell App repository.
Desktop Image Creation Enhancement - vTPM and Secure Boot options are now available on the Desktop Images creation page.
Tag Group Cloning – Speed up the administrative process by cloning your existing tag groups, rather than creating new groups each time.
User Cost Attribution: Tagging enhancements - New report configurations have been simplified to require only a single tag name rather than all tag values. Old reports will continue to operate using the previous approach.
API Enhancements:
1. REST API is now available for the multi-schedule feature.
2. REST API is now available for the end-user portal notifications and branding features.
Resolved Issues:
1. Nerdio Manager Deployment – When deployed from the marketplace, Nerdio Manager is now always deployed as the most recent GA release, rather than the most recent available version.
2. UAM: Shell Apps Uploads – Successful application uploads persist across sessions until the application creation process is completed.
3. Private Preview Management – Where private preview features exist, functionality can now be enabled for the customer remotely.
4. SQL Resilience – Where DR functionality has been configured for a customer environment, but the SQL connection string has not been updated, a warning banner is now surfaced for AVD Admins.
5. VM Agent ‘Not Ready’ Status – If detected, Nerdio Manager proceeds with the next step in the task and may fail due to extensions not being able to be installed. The ‘Not Ready’ status now results in three 10-minute retries before failing the creation task.
6. VNet Selection During Install - VNet selection can now be skipped during Nerdio Manager installation, avoiding the need to create proxy networks in some scenarios.
7. User Cost Attribution - Build Report tasks may fail with “No billing period information found”, error code 404.
8. SCCM Integration – The error ‘Cannot find path’ may occur during initial configuration when legacy packages exist in the SCCM console with sources that contain file paths rather than folder paths.
9. Auto-scale Burst Hosts - Auto-scale may not create burst session hosts when it is running re-images.
10. Sepago Deployments - Deploy a new workspace returned a failure error message.
11. UEM Policy Details – Intune policy components now use friendly names rather than the returned API value to enhance readability.

v6.0.4 (GA) (Release Date may 16, 2024)

This GA hotfix release includes all the items in v6.0.3, plus the following items:

User Cost Attribution - Build Report tasks may fail with “No billing period information found”, error code 404.

v6.0.3 (GA) (Release Date April 23, 2024)

This GA hotfix release includes all the items in v6.0.2, plus the following items:

User Cost Attribution - Build Report tasks may fail with “User Cost Attribution error”, error code 209.
User Cost Attribution – The App service settings “APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY” and “APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING” may be empty after new deployments.
Cloud PC with FedRAMP licensing – Nerdio Manager may not detect all Windows 365 Cloud PC licenses in government cloud scenarios.
Azure Stack HCI - “VM not found in subscription” API response in some licensing scenarios.

v6.0.2 (GA) (Release Date April 12, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v6.0.0 and v6.0.1, plus the following resolved issues:

SCCM integration – Application discovery may fail for all applications if a single application path is not discoverable.
Enforce host Intune compliance – Compliance assessment may fail immediately for Entra ID hybrid joined hosts.
Console performance enhancements – The user sessions page may take a long time to load all user sessions.
Azure Capacity Extender enablement – Capacity extender would not initiate and select an alternate size when the reported error from Azure was 'The requested size is currently not available'. The start VM task returned an error.
Azure Capacity Extender compatibility – Capacity extender did not take into account Accelerated Networking if enabled on the VM
Nerdio Permissions – Where Azure Management Groups are used, Nerdio would attempt to add Contributor permissions when owner permissions were already assigned to target resource groups.
User Cost Attribution export – Column names were observed to be different between the Nerdio console and the exported report.
Trusted Launch – In some scenarios, creating desktops using a Trusted Launch supported image resulted in an error stating the image was not Trusted Launch enabled.
Rest API – ‘powerOnHostsInMaintenanceWindow' property was not being enabled correctly when specified in the cmdlet or API call.
VM disk resizing - when 2+ VMs were selected, the bulk resize menu limits the available disk sizes.
Rich text editor control – The new rich text editor can be disabled via the app service setting “Features:RichScriptEditor”.

Agent updates - The below agents are included in this release:

Sepago Agent 2.9.3.0 (New)
AVD Agent 1.0.8297.800 (New)
FSLogix Agent 2.9.8784.63912

v6.0.1 (Release Date April 5, 2024)

This release is an update to the 6.0 preview release. It includes all the items in v6.0 plus the following resolved issues:

Azure Stack HCI - Hybrid hosts removal tasks may hang indefinitely when performed from the Nerdio Manager console.
Nerdio Modeler - Corrections in Nerdio Manager license cost calculations.

v6.0 (Release Date April 2, 2024)

Azure Stack HCI - Auto-scaling support: Public Preview – Reduce AVD license usage costs and optimize Azure Stack HCI hardware usage. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution Enhancements (Premium):
1. Per-host pool cost data presentation - Review user costs by host pool, as well as globally.
2. API enhancement: User cost attribution reports can now be scheduled, created, and exported to a custom location via API.
3. Built-in diagnostics check: Support information can now be easily gathered and shared to simplify issue resolution. Learn more.
End User Portal enhancements (Premium):
1. Branding & notification functionality – Set a custom logo for you end-user portal and define notifications which can be surfaced to users at both the global and host-pool level. Learn more.
2. Optional user control of auto-scale – Grant end users permission to set auto-scale exclusions for dedicated personal desktops. This allows power users and developers to ensure their desktops are kept running to perform automated tasks and batch operations.
Unified Application Management Enhancements:
1. Custom success criteria for application installs – Create your own detection rules for Unified Application Management (UAM) packages. Detect folder, file and registry details to validate the successful deployment of an application. When used in combination with Winget packages, custom detection rules take precedence over Winget’s standard detection rules.
2. Dedicated storage for Shell Apps files – Optionally, create and use a dedicated storage account to call files associated with your Shell Apps package
3. Shell Apps: Enhanced wizard-driven user interface - The new Wizard UI streamlines and simplifies the Shell Apps package creation process.
4. Shell Apps: Syntax-aware script editor – Shell Apps now includes an enhanced script editor with highlighting, validation and auto-complete.
Unified Endpoint Management Enhancements:
1. Cloud PC Frontline policy creation & management – Take advantage of flexible cloud PC licensing options to minimize license costs.
2. AVD hosts: UEM policy enforcement – Intune enrolled hosts can be held in drain mode until compliance with Intune policies is achieved. This will prevent users from connecting to any hosts which do not meet Intune compliance requirements.
3. AVD hosts: Add to Entra ID groups during provisioning – Host pools can now be configured to add hosts to any required Entra ID groups as part of the host creation process.
4. Granular control over UEM Entra ID permissions – Customers can now manage which aspects of Intune they wish to include in UEM management via a granular permission assignment selector. Learn more.
App Attach v2 Enhancements – Support for App Attach v2 packages in RemoteApp scenarios.
Storage resilience selection – When creating file shares, administrators can now choose their preferred resiliency level (LRS / ZRS).
Desktop Images – support for Confidential Computing (CC) images configured in 'Confidential' and 'Confidential supported' modes. Learn more.
UDP Round-trip time support for Sepago – Round-trip time details are now displayed in the Sepago dashboard.
FSLogix custom profile redirection support – FSLogix profiles now support custom redirection and exclusion rules. Learn more.
Auto-scale restriction management enhancements – Scale-in and scale-out restrictions can now be managed from a single management popup.
Scripted action enhancements – The scripted action UI now includes a syntax-aware script editor with highlighting, validation and auto-complete.
Support for AVD Passwordless – the RDP property ‘redirectwebauthn’ is now available in the RDP properties and RDP profiles feature.
Resolved Issues:
1. User cost attribution Improvements now includes the ‘HostPoolId’ field for per-host pool reporting.
2. User cost attribution cost may have appeared inaccurate in some non-US dollar scenarios due to improper currency handling.
3. Device ownership could not be modified for Intune UEM devices, even if the correct permissions were assigned.
4. Some government-specific Cloud PC sizes were not listed.
5. Entra ID Hybrid joined AVD hosts were not detected correctly when using the UEM scope ‘AVD Hosts’.
6. User accounts deleted from Entra ID could not be unassigned from desktop assignment.

Items moving from public preview to general availability:

Azure Stack HCI integration – 23H2 support.
Unified Application Management - SCCM integration. (Premium)
Nerdio Advisor -Right-sizing for shared host pools. (Premium)

v5.7.3 (GA) (Release Date March 1, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v5.7.0, v5.7.1, and v5.7.2, plus the following items:

During new installations of Nerdio Manager, customers may experience the error message “Encryption key was not found in the key ring” in the Nerdio Manger console.
Requested permissions for newly enabled Intune integrations were not including ‘Group.ReadWrite.All’, which may lead to failures in Intune application deployments.
Bulk resize or reimage tasks may hang with a spinning icon indicator.

v5.7.2 (Release Date Feb 22, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v5.7.0 and v5.7.1, plus the following items:

Bulk Actions for VM Right-sizing Tasks – VM right-sizing now supports multi-select and apply for recommendations of the same type.
Host Pools and App Group Naming: The character limit has been extended from 30 to 64 characters.
Agents:
- Agent update: FSLogix agent version 2.9.8784.63912 is now included.
- Agent update: AVD agent version 1.0.7909.2600 is now included.
- Agent shipped: Sepago Agent 2.8.
Resolved issues
1. Optimization in Nerdio Manager notification processing
2. Cloud PC license management returned inconsistent results
3. An additional app service setting has been added to avoid pre-staging failures if there are active removal tasks
4. In some scenarios, the network list would be shown as empty when deploying a new instance of Nerdio Manager.
5. Azure Monitoring Agent deployments would fail if the associated LAW name was longer than 40 characters.
6. AppAttach certificates are now installed by default for any AppAttach v2 assigned pools as part of the ‘install certificates’ process.

v5.7.1 (Release Date Feb 15, 2024)

This release includes all the items in v5.7 plus the following:

App Attach v2 - Nerdio Manager now enables the deployment and assignment of application packages directly to users. This feature streamlines the process of targeting applications, eliminating manual configuration steps.

Note: This feature is currently not available for Azure Gov customers. Azure Gov customers will see a message "App Attach v2 is not supported for your subscription yet."

v5.7 (Release Date Feb 13, 2024)

Nerdio AssistPro: Private Preview (Premium) – Nerdio Manager's AssistPro enhances support by retraining on NME knowledge-based articles for precise data delivery. This tool employs a generative Large Language Model (LLM) to create responses, streamlining user queries with relevant information.
Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Feature Set: Public Preview – (Premium) – Nerdio Manager now supports Azure Stack HCI 23H2 using the latest Azure Arc Resource Bridge. Create and manage Hybrid AVD host pools with VMs running on-premises using physical hardware.
Nerdio Advisor: Right-sizing for Shared Host Pools (Premium) – Shared session host pools can now be analyzed, and recommendations provided based on usage, helping administrators to ensure their workloads are correctly sized for user demands.
Nerdio Advisor: Right-sizing Global Dashboard (Premium) – Review the right-sizing recommendations across your desktop estate. Optionally export the recommendations, observe trends and discover the cost implications when accepting the recommended changes. Learn more.
End User Portal: Application Self-Service (Premium) – UAM Applications can now be made selectively available for installation by end users, reducing administrative overhead and improving the end-user experience.
Unified Application Management:
1. Public preview availability for SCCM integration with Unified Application Management, including the ability to schedule automated application synchronizations and the ability to import new versions into existing applications.
2. Support for application policies at the host pool level - Customers can now select policies to apply when creating a new host pool or editing an existing host pool. Learn more.
3. Nerdio Shell Apps for scripted deployments (preview) – UAM now supports the deployment of complex applications via PowerShell scripts. Includes the ability to specify custom detection scripts. Learn more.
4. Winget ‘Apps & Features’ – This detection method is now available for use under application properties.
Multiple Schedule Support – Multiple schedules can now be configured for actions of the same type, removing the current limit of one schedule per action type. Learn more.
Simple FSLogix Profile Configuration – FSLogix profiles can now be created and edited in ‘simple’ mode, removing the need to configure registry settings individually. The registry settings may still be configured by selecting ‘Advanced’ mode.
CO2 Savings in Modeler - This feature enhances customer understanding of AVD's environmental benefits with NME, providing reports on their setup's effect on CO2 emissions, coal energy, and tree equivalents. Incorporated into the AVD Modeler, it allows users to assess the environmental impact of supported VM sizes.
Unified Endpoint Management Device Performance Dashboard – View the global health of your Intune-enrolled Windows devices. Measure performance and identify trends as they emerge. Learn more.
Custom Views for Unified Endpoint Management Devices – View and manage a subset of Intune devices using Nerdio’s Custom View feature.
Unified Endpoint Management – Policy Enhancements:
1. Change log details in the policy history.
2. Bulk policy assignment.
Unified Endpoint Management Device Group Scoping – Customers can now select the option to limit UEM device visibility by either a limiting user or device group.
FSLogix App Masking Improvements – The local Administrator group can now be excluded from FSLogix app masking rules.
Auto-Scale Profiles: Bulk Assignments – Auto-scale profiles can now be assigned to multiple pools from the auto-scale profile management page.
Migration to the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) – Customers can manage the transition away from the legacy Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). New installs of Nerdio manager will use the AMA agent by default, existing customers can manage which agents they wish to deploy. For details on the required changes, please see this article. Also see this KB article.
Nerdio Manager Migration (Private Preview)– The webapp and associated resources can now be migrated to a new resource group or subscription if required. Please contact the support team for more information.
VM Size Feature Support Selector for Resource Rules – This allows filtration based on Hibernation, Trusted Launch, Confidential Computing, Accelerated networking, and Ephemeral OS disks.
Auto-scale Efficiency - All auto-scale tasks now make use of Azure Resource Graph (ARG) by default to reduce API consumption.
Resolved Issues:
1. The Intune integration tile did not allow scoping by device group.
2. For Hibernation (preview) enabled environment, users were forced to log off before placing a VM in hibernation.
3. Migrating Application Insights from Classic to Workspace-based may fail if using custom names.
4. Intune Devices in UEM can take a long time to load, causing high DB usage.
5. If the default directory profile set in integrations is an EntraID profile, the 'pass AD Credentials' box could not be enabled, and a selection could not be made in Runbook advanced settings.
6. Installing or upgrading FSLogix agent did not use the ‘Force Installation’.

v5.6.2 (Release Date Feb 19, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v5.6.0 and v5.6.1 plus the following items:

Optimization in Nerdio Manager notification processing.
Cloud PC license management enhancements.

v5.6.1 (Release Date Jan 4, 2024)

This is a GA release that includes all the items in v5.6.0 plus the following items:

User Cost Attribution:
- An updated version of user cost attribution is included in this release, with improvements to report build times.
- The shared cost allocation method can now be selected from the dashboard for all reports, and does not need to be specified in the report configuration.
Unified Application Management:
- Proxy VMs are now supported for SCCM integration.
- ‘Packages & Programs’ are now supported with SCCM integration.
The Unified Endpoint Management policy ‘edit’ button contextually changes to ‘edit & restore’ if backups are detected.
Resolved Issues:
- A permissions banner would continue to be shown on the user cost attribution page even after the required permissions had been assigned.
- The Image column on the Session Hosts page was missing a reference to the desktop image used to provision the host.
- Uploading application to a private UAM repository incorrectly allowed the inclusion of spaces in the version field.
- Some new deployments would fail with the message “No registered resource provider found for location."
- ControlUp download location was queried if the ControlUp configuration on the host pool was opened, even if ControlUp integration was not enabled.

v5.6.0 (Release Date Dec 18, 2023)

Auto-scaling Profiles (Premium): Auto-scale profiles simplify the creation process for new host pools. Users can now select existing auto-scale profiles, eliminating the need for manual configuration of auto-scale settings for each pool. Learn more. Demo.
Azure Compute Hibernate Functionality: Enable hibernate functionality for supported VMs. Users can easily suspend and wake their personal desktops from the Nerdio end user portal. Demo.
Desktop Image OS Disk Optimization (Premium): Automatically convert the OS disk for images to HDD when not running to reduce storage costs. Demo.
Unified Endpoint Manager: Intune Policy Protection & Versioning: Backup and restore Intune policies from the UEM console. Restore Intune policies to a known-good configuration without needing to document all policy settings. Test policy changes swiftly and with confidence, knowing that you can revert to a previous version. Recover from policy change mistakes or policy corruption. Demo.
Global Themes: Force a global UI theme for all users defined by an administrator and restrict the ability for users to configure personal UI themes. Demo.
Unified Application Management API (Premium): API support has been added for configuring and managing the UAM feature.
Confidential Computing Support: Introducing support for the Azure confidential computing VM sizes, providing a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment.
AVD Host Removal From Intune: Nerdio Manager can now be configured to automatically remove associated device records during deletion processes. Please note that this enhancement requires granting additional permissions to the Nerdio web app. Learn more.
Unified Endpoint Management: Auto Pilot Profile Support: Auto Pilot group tags and profiles can now be reviewed and edited in the device details popup.
A new optional setting allows errors to be generated if an Azure NetApp volume is unable to grow due to lack of volume space.
Resolved Issues:
1. VM template configuration UI has been moved to the global auto scale configuration to avoid conflicts in multi-schedule scenarios.
2. The Nerdio Update automation account has been updated to use the current PowerShell AZ module, replacing the legacy AzureRM module.
3. Image type REST API name had a space included. This has been corrected to "ImageType"

v5.5.2 (Release Date Dec 11, 2023)

This is a hotfix release for v5.5 that includes all the items in v5.5.0 and v5.5.1, plus the following resolved issue:

Auto-scale created new VMs instead of powering on existing VMs when the existing VM’s power state could not be determined.
The Desktop Images page returned the message Resource Graph 'Client application has been throttled' in multi-subscription environments.
The Set as Image page was not displaying enabled settings when editing a Set as Image scheduled task.
The message "Version for unstaging should be the latest" was shown incorrectly when attempting to activate a staged images in some scenarios

v5.5.1 (Release Date Nov 30, 2023)

Auto-scaling: Peak and Off-peak Auto-scaling Options (PREMIUM). Set up and use different auto-scaling schedules. These schedules can run indefinitely or only during a specified window. Demo.
Manageable Restrictions for Intelligent Azure Capacity Extender (PREMIUM) – Allows customers to fine-tune configuration settings by specifying the CPU architectures that are allowed, as well as the maximum difference between the RAM and CPU cores. Demo.
UAM: Intune Application Support – Unified Application Management (UAM) now lets you link Intune as a read-only repository. This means you can deploy Intune apps to Intune devices directly from the UAM console. Demo.
UAM: Force Application Policy Compliance – New AVD desktops can be forced to remain in drain mode until all UAM application policy installs have completed. Demo.
UAM: Use Existing Pool Maintenance Windows for Deployments – The option to use the existing pool maintenance window can now be selected when creating or editing a UAM policy, simplifying the management process. Demo.
UEM: JSON Editor for Policy Management – Edit policy configuration directly from the Nerdio Manger console. Demo.
UEM: Device Action State Details – Device action state information can now be reviewed from the device properties pop-up. Demo.
User Cost Attribution Enhancements – Improvements to report build time. Additional improvements to the Power BI template. Previous month reports are now automatically rebuilt on the first day of the following month to enhance accuracy.
Specify App Group Name during Pool Creation - Administrators can now set the name of the App group when creating a new pool. Demo.
Image Multi-clone Function – Create multiple clones of an Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) image in a single action. Demo.
Custom Image Templates - Scripted actions have been updated to the latest version 2023-09-15.
Nerdio Encryption Key Management – For new installs, all encryption keys are now stored in the associated Azure Storage account and encrypted using Azure key Vault. Existing customers can migrate for enhanced security and resilience.
Scripted Action: Delete Aged FSLogix Profiles in Azure Files – Configure a recurring script to remove aged FSLogix profiles within a specified time window.
Scripted Action: Enable Private Endpoints - Selection of Existing VNETs – Existing VNETs can now be used when enabling private endpoints, rather than requiring new VNETs to be created. Contributions to this script were made by Nerdio Valued Professional (NVP) Stefan Beckmann.
Nerdio Manger Console Performance Improvements – When enabled, NME queries all linked subscriptions and associated resources in parallel. This improves performance in large scale environments by reducing the time required to return data to the console.
New Marketplace Images: Azure Marketplace images are included in this release.
Agents Update: AVD agent v1.0.7755.1800 is included in this release.
Resolved Issues:
1. When configuring Instant Recovery snapshots for a standard policy, user could choose any number, however a maximum of 5 are supported. Selecting more than 5 resulted in an error.
2. On the Clone Host Pool page, the new pool name and current pool name were configured as the same.
3. User details were not consistently recorded in the task details pane.
4. FSLogix rule sets with a redirection rule fails the import validation and do not complete successfully.
5. Set as Image recurring scheduled tasks are not displaying the Refresh from Azure Marketplace options correctly.
6. Re-imaging a host pool on Azure Stack HCI removes the dynamic memory setting.
7. VM Right Sizing for dedicated hosts pools listed the number of VM options rather than the number of recommendations on the host details page.
8. UEM dashboard view choices would reset after navigating away from the page.
9. Agent binaries for VM create activities could take longer than expected due to files being included in the extension. Binaries are now run directly from the storage account.

v5.4.3 (Release Date Nov 29, 2023)

This is a hotfix release for v5.4 that includes all the items in v5.4.0, v5.4.1, and v5.4.2 plus the following resolved issue:

Disk resize operations on desktops created directly from the Azure console may fail in some instances.

v5.4.2 (Release Date Nov 22, 2023)

This is a hotfix release for v5.4 that includes all the items in v5.4.0 and v5.4.1 plus the following resolved issues:

Users could not change pages in some multi-page views.
Image replication for ACG images did not retain all replica locations in the UI.

v5.4.1 (Release Date Oct 30, 2023)

This is a GA release for v5.4 that includes all the items in v5.4.0 plus the following resolved issues:

The error 'Microsoft.Compute' for API version '2022-09-01' does not contain the resource type 'locations/diskoperations' may be displayed when assigning permissions to a new or reprovisioned desktop.
Unified Endpoint Management: Selecting the device name did not take you to the device record pop-up.
Unified Endpoint Management Dashboards: WUfB & Classic view choices did not persist.
'Device name' and 'Managed by' columns data overlapping in the UEM report pages.
The message "Log analytics workspace settings are not suitable for calculating VM right size" is displayed if the following counters are absent in the corresponding LAW.
Dashboard > User cost attribution > Power BI: Values shown in Power BI and NME are different.
VM right sizing: Only one LAW reporting & task details not showing in the UI.
User Cost Attribution: Updates included to resolve unallocated cost distribution issues and errors with the Power BI import process.
Unified Application Management: Winget install error "Failed when opening sources" is observed during some install operations.
Custom installer success codes have been added to the import wizard.

v5.4.0 (Release Date Oct 18, 2023)

SCCM Integration for Unified Application Management: Private Preview (PREMIUM) - Import and deploy your SCCM applications. Connect directly to your SCCM environment, catalog applications and import applications directly into a private WinGet repository. Learn more.
Rolling Drain Mode (PREMIUM) – Create multiple drain windows and target a specific percentage of your hosts to drain mode, outside of the Scale-in Restriction window. This feature allows customers to prevent new connections to a percentage of hosts and allows these hosts to be shut down more quickly, saving on resource costs. Demo.
Intune Policy Management for UEM - Assign and review Intune compliance policies, configuration profiles, and update policies from the Nerdio Manager console. Learn more. Demo.
Auto-grow Naming Enhancements – Customers may now choose among 3 auto-grow naming conventions. ‘Standard’ naming will use the next available name, ‘re-use names’ will always attempt to reuse names previously used in the pool (if available), ‘unique names’ will always attempt to use a unique name for new hosts. All tasks operate within the restrictions of the configured naming convention. Demo.
AES 256 Encryption for File Shares – All newly created file shares use secure AES 256 encryption by default, for both Computer & User object joins. Demo.
AVD Watermarking – Watermarking for AVD sessions can now be enabled and configured on the Host Pool Settings > VM Deployment page. Demo.
UEM Global Dashboard for Intune Applications – The deployment status of Intune native applications can now be reviewed from a global dashboard, providing an overview of Intune applications within the estate. Demo.
End User Portal - Separate Disk & VM Resize – The disk & VM resize functions can now be enabled independently, allowing administrators to only show configurable settings to users. Demo.
VM Rightsizing Enhancements:
1. Recommendations are now shown on the session hosts page.
2. The result section now includes a graph showing CPU / RAM utilization over time.
Unified Application Management Enhancements:
1. Package names can now be edited in the console.
2. Administrators can specify their own custom installer success codes.
Exclude Drain Mode Hosts from Power Policy – Host in drain mode can now be excluded from scheduled or one-time bulk tasks at the pool level.
Exclude Drain Mode Hosts from AVD Agent Maintenance Window – Drain mode hosts can now be excluded from the AVD agent maintenance window tasks configured in the host pool properties.
Auto-scale: Single Time zone Selector - The auto-scale user interface has been simplified to include a single time zone selector at the top of the auto-scale configuration page.
New API Endpoint - Query Entra ID & Entra domain services profiles.
Custom themes - Added the ability to configure Information banner color.
Resolved Issues:
1. Healthy endpoints were not included in the UEM Anti-virus dashboard.
2. Nerdio webapp permission assignments were not processed if assigned to a group of which the Nerdio web app was a member.
3. Help Desk & Desktop Admin Roles missing Shadow Session or Log Off options.
4. New NME deployments were not deploying 'workspace-based' application insights workspaces.
5. 'Request was canceled due to the configured HttpClient.Timeout' errors may be regularly surfaced.
6. Scheduled tasks interrupted personal pool scale in actions.
7. Scripted Actions causing storage resource provider throttling.
8. UAM applications in the community WinGet repository returned an ‘unknown host’ or authentication error.
9. Scripts removed from a repository remained listed in NME without warnings.
10. AAD & AADDS renamed to Entra ID & Entra domain services.
11. UAM UI issues when properties of the installer has an empty scope.
12. 'Remove FSLogix Apps' not uninstalling FSLogix applications.
13. ASHCI AVD hosts with dynamic memory set revert to static memory after a re-image.
14. VM right sizing batch size could not be managed, leading to timeout errors.
15. Scripted action to update Fslogix returned an error.

v5.3 (Release Date Sept 20, 2023)

VM Right-Sizing Service for Dedicated Desktops Beta (PREMIUM) – The latest tool in the Nerdio Advisor suite offers customers the ability to review and optimize personal desktops sizes. Nerdio Manager’s VMRSS gathers and assesses resource demand over time and makes dynamic recommendations to resize over- or under-provisioned desktop VMs. Take the guesswork out of VM resource allocation and realize cost savings for over-provisioned resources. Learn more. Demo.
End User Portal - Custom Actions (PREMIUM) – Windows Scripted Actions can now be delegated to users to run on their own desktop. Users may also be permitted to assign tags to their desktop. Demo.
Intune Only Mode - Organizations who do not require Azure Virtual Desktop management features can now opt to select ‘"Intune Only Mode" to manage Intune devices. Demo.
AADDS Compatibility Mode for FSLogix Profile Removal – A new option allows administrators to bypass SID searching in AADDS scenarios.
Desktop Image Tagging & Filtering - Add tags to Desktop Images from the image menu. In addition, filter images by Azure tag name & value on the Desktop Images page. Learn more. Demo.
ControlUp: DR Hosts Configuration – Customers using ControlUp monitoring for DR-enabled pools can now specify an alternate configuration for the DR hosts.
Unified Endpoint Management Dashboards Improvements – Enhanced dashboards now make use of Windows Update for Business Log Analytics workspaces to provide more detailed update status information.
Unified Application Management - Filter by application deployment results on the Deployment status page. Demo.
Azure Files AD Join Permissions – The option to assign either FSLogix or App Attach NTFS permissions is now available during file share creation. Demo.
"Request AAD Join Logs" for AADJ Operations – AAD join logs are now available for host build operations.
Warning for Burst Mode Pools – When a pool is using burst resources, a warning is displayed next to the pool. Demo.
Azure Stack HCI Dynamic Memory – ASHCI devices can now be configured with dynamic memory allocation, allowing for increased density.
Desktop Image Backup Policies – Desktop images can now be backed up on a schedule or manually. Learn more. Demo.
New API Endpoint - Query and consume custom images.
Disable Shadow Sessions - The ability to shadow user sessions can be globally disabled using the app service setting Features:ShadowSession.
MSIX App Attach Assignment – MSIX App Attach packages assigned to host pools can now be updated from the package context menu as well as via the "Set as default version" option.
Agent Updates - The FSLogix agent 2210 hotfix 2 (2.9.8612.60056) and AVD agent 1.0.7255.1400 have been added to this release.
Resolved Issues:
1. Azure Stack HCI configuration did not allow for fractional values when allocating vRAM.
2. Azure Stack HCI configuration only supported vCPU configurations up to 16 cores.
3. Desktop Image backups are not removed according to the required schedule.
4. "Stopped OS disk differs from policy" warning was surfaced during OS disk pre-stage events.
5. "Assign NTFS permissions" option would be selected by default when editing an existing file share.
6. When linking a network, the "Contributor" role was assigned instead of the more restricted role "Network Contributor."
7. When linking a network, the "Contributor" role was assigned instead of the more restricted role "Network Contributor."

v5.2 (Release Date Aug 17, 2023)

Management Log Shipping – All Nerdio Manager informational task logs can now be directed to the Azure Application Insights instance. These logs can then be exported to or queried by an SIEM solution. Learn more. Demo.
PowerShell Module: Export Host Pool Configuration (PREMIUM) – Export the current configuration of a host pool in .JSON format including all properties, the total number of VMs, and their current power status. Learn more. Demo.
Unified Endpoint Management: Update compliance and antivirus global dashboards have been added to the console.
SMTP Email Alerts (PREMIUM) – Link and use an SMTP gateway for alert configuration. Learn more. Demo.
New RBAC Roles – ‘Manage Drain Mode’ and ‘Manage Power State’ RBAC roles have been added to allow for non-destructive support role creation. Demo.
Resource Rules for Image Management – Create customizable, filtered lists of desktop images. Demo.
Unified Application Management:
- Deployment status page can be searched by application.
- Policy last run time is now displayed for recurring and one-time policies.
- Dashboard load times have been significantly improved.
Auto-scale: Available Sessions During Working Hours – Scale-in activities can now be set to ‘any time,’ allowing scale-in tasks to be performed during working hours. Demo.
Custom Auto-shrink Email Messages – Custom auto-shrink email messages can now be configured for users. These emails can include variables such as the host pool, host name, and date to simplify the user experience.
UI Parameter Support for Combined Scripted Actions & Scripted Action Groups – UI-based parameters can now be set for combined action tasks. Additionally, Scripted Action Groups now support the use of UI-based parameters.
ControlUp - Agent Deployment Throttling & Scheduling – Pools can now be configured with deployment limits and a maintenance window for the deployment of ControlUp agents. Learn more.
'Unavailable & Running' Filter for VMs – A new filter allows for the simple detection of hosts that are both running and unavailable.
Separate Action for File Share NTFS Permissions – NTFS share permissions can be assigned and updated as a separate action after creation.
Scripted Action: Enable Private Endpoints for Azure Files – A new scripted action allows for the creation of private endpoints as part of the Azure Files creation process.
Scripted Actions Certificate Renewals GUI – Simplify the process of regenerating the scripted actions automation certificate via the Nerdio Manager console. Learn more.
Migrate to Workspace-based Application Insights – A new GUI element allows administrators to simply migrate to the new workspace-based Application Insights model. Learn more.
Auto-Shrink notifications - Auto-shrink tasks which conflict with maintenance plans or auto-scale restrictions are now highlighted in the console.
Resolved Issues:
1. Desktop image change log not saving comments correctly.
2. Scripted Action group tasks running out of desired order.
3. Send message generates an error in Nerdio if the user is logging off.
4. AZFILETMP VMs were not un-joined from the domain if the task failed.
5. Re-image tasks block scale-out tasks if currently running.
6. User cost attribution report generation may take a long time to complete.
7. User cost attribution may provide incorrect results for non-US dollar environments.
8. ‘Quick assign’ on host pools did not cache selections during searching.
9. ControlUp integration may lead to increased Web App resource utilization.
10. Updated API for resource tagging on ASHCI.

v5.1 (Release Date Jul 17, 2023)

Power BI Connector & Custom Dashboard for User Cost Attribution (PREMIUM) – Export Power BI reports into a customizable dashboard with rich reporting capabilities. Learn more. Demo.
Custom Image Template Integration – Leverage the power of Azure Custom Image templates (CIT) as part of the image creation process. Integrate CITs into the existing image management process and apply customizations directly in the UI via parameters. Demo.
Scripted Actions Parameters – Simplify scripted action deployment by specifying script parameters directly within the Nerdio Manager user interface.
Unified Application Management (UAM)
- Deployment status page – A new page providing the status of devices and applications. Quickly search and filter results to discover the deployment status for both policies and one-time deployments. Learn more.
- Deploy to a desktop image – Install apps as part of the image management and creation process.
- Deploy to host – Assign application management tasks to individual pooled session hosts from the host action menu.
- Device restart – Optionally, require a restart in the app deployment task process.
- MSIX package support – Deploy native .MSIX applications to all supported device targets.
- MSIX app attach multi-app support – Support for MSIX app attach packages that contain multiple applications in a single package.
- Favorite applications - Can be searched from the global search bar.
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)
- Overview page – Bulk actions & enhanced device filtering.
- Device page – Locate device privileged action and quick-refresh details on all device popup screens.
Alert if Running OS Disk Differs from Policy – A warning is now displayed if session host’s OS disk differs from the running OS disk policy. Demo.
User Cost Attribution: Enhanced Reporting (PREMIUM) - A new report field specifies if the session was a desktop or remote app.
Resolved Issues:
1. Storage account name only supported a maximum of 15 characters instead of 24.
2. Auto-shrink notification showing the incorrect number of days in some scenarios.
3. Nerdio Manager Update automation runbook used a ‘Run-as’ account rather than a Managed Identity.
4. User cost attribution: personal (1:1) desktops costs were not allocated exclusively to assigned user.

v5.0 (Released Jun 1, 2023)

Unified Application Management - Link a wide range of app repositories to the new Unified Application Catalog. Create private Winget repositories for the management of custom apps. Once in the Unified App Catalog, applications can be automatically deployed to AVD session hosts or Intune managed devices, including Windows 365 Cloud PC. Use Deployment Policies to automatically install, uninstall, or update applications across the AVD environment. This release includes support for both AD domain joined and AAD joined devices, plus the ability to deploy applications to Windows 365 Cloud PC and Physical devices through integration with Intune. Policy tasks can be scheduled via maintenance windows to ensure these actions only occur at the desired time. Learn more. Demo.
Unified Endpoint Management (Beta) – Review and manage your Intune enrolled Windows devices quickly and easily within the Nerdio Manager console. Perform management operations such as adding or removing group membership, review the status of devices and user experience details from a single, intuitive console. Powerful granular RBAC allows administrators to build custom roles to limit access to device details and tasks, allowing organizations to delegate many aspects of device management. Learn more.
Nerdio Manager PowerShell Module (Premium Feature) – The Nerdio Manager PowerShell module is a premium feature that offers a convenient way to interact with the Nerdio Manager API. The PowerShell module is a wrapper for Nerdio’s REST API. With this dedicated PowerShell module, users can leverage powerful management capabilities directly from PowerShell. Learn more. Demo.
RemoteApp Name Shown on User Sessions Page – View running application directly from the user sessions page. This helps to identify and quickly resolve problem sessions for users.
AVD Modeler Print Function – Modeler now includes the option to print models directly from the console to a .PDF document.
Additional Images – Windows Server 2022 images are now available for selection within the Nerdio Manger console.
Restrict Scale-in Period Extended – The limit of 24 hours for ‘Restrict scale-in’ rules has been removed.
Resolved Issues:
1. If enabled, Modeler included Nerdio Manager costs in the "unoptimized costs."
2. Azure Stack HCI custom images would fail script extension installation.
3. User assignments on deleted workspaces could not be edited or removed.
4. Azure Files auto-scaling failing with 'unknown error'.
5. Winget repository application insights being created in classic mode.
6. User Sessions pagination resetting host pool selector.
7. Intelligent Capacity Extender suggesting invalid VM sizes for image SKU.
8. Ephemeral OS disk provisioning with incorrect size in some scenarios.

v4.9 (Released: Apr 24, 2023)

Unified Application Management for AVD (Beta) – Link a wide range of app repositories to the new Unified App Catalog (Winget Community & private repositories in this release with more sources coming soon). Create private Winget repositories for the management of custom apps. Once in the Unified App Catalog, applications can be automatically deployed to AVD session hosts or desktop images. Use Deployment Policies to automatically install, uninstall, or update applications across the AVD environment. Learn more.
Azure Stack HCI 22H2 Feature Set – PREMIUM (Beta) – Link Nerdio Manager to an on-premises Azure Stack HCI cluster using the Azure Arc Resource Bridge. Create and manage Hybrid AVD host pools with VMs running on-premises using physical hardware. Create, manage, update, and replicate desktop images to be used for creation of session host VMs. VMs are automatically created and managed through the familiar Nerdio Manager interface. Session hosts can be multi-session or single session and advanced features like scripted actions, monitoring, FSLogix, and more are fully supported. Learn more. Demo.
Tag Groups – Create collections or ‘groups’ of Azure tags for assignment to resources including host pools, images, and storage accounts. Rules can be created to allow for assignment to specified resources. This feature also includes support for variables to simplify tag management. Learn more. Demo.
Import and Export RemoteApps – Import and export RemoteApp collections directly between host pools or in JSON format to allow for migration between environments. Learn more. Demo.
Import and Export AppMasking Rule Sets – Import and export AppMasking rule sets directly between host pools or in JSON format to allow for migration between environments. Demo.
Alert Exclusion Keywords – Specify keywords in alert conditions that will suppress notifications to help detect and suppress false positives. Demo.
Scripted Action - Download and Install FSLogix on Session hosts – A new scripted action to automatically download and install the latest FSLogix release has been added.
Windows 11 22H2 - New marketplace images added to replace preview builds.
Resolved Issues
1. IPv6 network ranges report incorrect details.
2. VM create operations could exceed the number supported by replicas.
3. Secondary office container path error unless custom is selected.
4. Time zones using daylight savings (DST) not reflected in the Nerdio Manager console.
5. Desktop images shown as unavailable in Azure region when using Azure Compute Gallery

v4.8 (Released: Mar 22, 2023)

Intelligent OS Disk Pre-Staging – PREMIUM FEATURE - Nerdio Manager learns to predict user behavior based upon previous logon times. Pre-stage the running OS disk type of personal desktops according to learned user habits, saving resource costs and optimizing performance. Demo.
AVD Modeler: PaaS & License Costs – Include Nerdio Manager Azure PaaS services and license costs in AVD model calculations. Learn more.
Scripted Action Groups – Create collections of scripted actions and assign these scripts as groups rather than individually during standard deployment tasks. Learn more. Demo.
Automatic Activation of Staged Images – Automatically activate staged images after a specified number of days. Learn more. Demo.
FSLogix Office Container - Archive & Delete - Manage FSLogix Profile and Office containers when troubleshooting.
Granular Pre-stage Timers – More granular options for user-driven OS disk pre-staging, auto-scale host pre-staging, and auto-scale working hours section. Demo.
AADJ USER or ADMIN Role Assignment (General Availability feature) – Assign either the Virtual Machine User or Virtual Machine Administrator role to AADJ dedicated personal desktops when adding a user. Demo.
Cloud PC Optimized Images – Additional Cloud PC optimized images have been added in this release.
VM Boot Diagnostics Storage Type – Use managed storage account for boot diagnostics, by default. There is also an option to select a custom storage account, or to disable the collection of boot diagnostics data.
Agent Update: FSLogix 2210 hotfix 1 (2.9.8440.42104). Please note: Microsoft has changed the default behavior for FSLogix profile capture activities in this version. Please refer to this article for details
Agent Update: AVD agent Version 1.0.6028.2200.
Resolved Issues:
1. Resource Groups mapping for pool VMs not removed from if the Resource Group is deleted from the Azure console.
2. Optimized queries via REST API
3. Errors deploying User Cost Attribution feature in some regions
4. Pre-stage schedule conflicts with scale in delay
5. Azure NetApp Files pre-stage - Volume and capacity pool fixes

v4.7 (Released: Feb 22, 2023)

Nerdio Advisor: AVD Modeler – Introducing a new suite of tools called Nerdio Advisor. It will provide cost modeling and optimization recommendations to ensure your environment is configured with the right settings to meet your needs. In this version, the AVD Modeler lets you create detailed models for new host pools. These models will provide anticipated costs and savings, allowing you to tweak settings to meet your requirements and budget for upcoming deployment without actually spinning up any Azure resources. Learn more.
End User Personal Desktop Revert to Original Size – PREMIUM FEATURE – Administrators can now force desktops that were resized by end users to revert to their original size after a specified time. Learn more.
‘Encryption at Host’ Support – Encryption at host can now be configured directly from the Nerdio Manager console for both platform-managed key and customer-managed key scenarios. Learn more.
RDP Shortpath for public networks – A new default option has been added to control the use of RDP Shortpath for public networks on a per host pool basis.
Per User Currency Preferences – Currency preferences can now be selected and viewed on a per-user basis. Learn more.
User Cost Attribution Reports - PREMIUM FEATURE – A new tagging report will allow customers to review their environment to ensure all resources are correctly tagged for cost reporting.
Dedicated Desktop 'Start and Stop' Time Options - Additional time intervals for dedicated personal host pools 'start and stop' function to allow for longer shut down windows, plus the ability to fully disable auto scale shut down tasks.
Resolved Issues:
1. ‘Microsoft.RecoveryServices’ registration is not validated when a subscription is linked.
2. Deleted resource groups remain visible.
3. If an Availability Zone is specified, but the chosen VM size does not support Availability Zones, no indication is shown.
4. ControlUp hosts do not show any indication that they were successfully joined to the Monitor.
5. When cloning a dynamic host pool without auto-scale configuration, a static pool is created.
6. No ability to specify subscription ID during update tasks.
7. 'Managed disk storage account type change is not allowed’ error on Auto Shrink tasks in some scenarios
8. Auto-scale task in Error state but sub-tasks all showing Complete.
9. Compatibility issues in newer versions of Mozilla Firefox.
10. Subnet available IPs information incorrect for DR locations.
11. Scheduled re-image job not stopping after 1 failed task when specified.
12. When deploying to a tenant which includes existing Nerdio installations, the process fails because roles already exist.
13. Failures when attempting to download hourly host pool details report.

v4.6 (Released: Dec 25, 2022)

1. 1. Nerdio SQL Database Fault Tolerance (premium feature) - Replicate Nerdio Manager SQL database using failover groups to mitigate the risk of Azure SQL database outages. Learn more. Demo
  2. Geographically distribute MSIX AppAttach Images (premium feature) - Upload MSIX AppAttach packages to multiple linked file shares. When adding applications, the package in the file share closest to the host pool’s region is prioritized to reduce latency. Demo
  3. Custom RemoteApp Maintenance Tasks - Run custom actions and specify a schedule when enabling RemoteApp maintenance mode. Demo
  4. RDP Settings Profiles - Create global RDP profiles for quick assignment to new and existing host pools. Apply profiles directly from host pool properties or the host pool creation page. Learn more. Demo
  5. Auto-shrink Administrative Notifications - Administrators can now choose to be notified when Auto-shrink enabled desktops are scheduled for removal.
  6. GitHub Enterprise Support - Integrate your corporate GitHub Enterprise repositories into the Nerdio Manager to access organizational scripted actions content. Learn more.
  7. Reset FSLogix User Profiles - Log off and archive or delete user profiles from an Azure Files share directly from the User Sessions page to troubleshoot user issues. Demo
  8. "cm-resource-parent" Cost Management Tags - Make use of the new "cm-resource-parent" tag for cost reporting in the Azure console. Demo
  9. Apply to Existing Hosts for Scheduled Actions – Administrators can now choose to schedule bulk host pool actions when 'Apply to existing hosts' is selected. Demo
  10. Custom Storage Account Names - Administrators can now use their own naming conventions for Nerdio Manager’s core storage accounts. Learn more.
  11. ControlUp API support - API management of ControlUp functions within Nerdio Manager has been added.
  12. Updated Sepago Agent - Sepago agent version 2.8.0 has been added to this release.
  13. Resolved Issues:
    1. Virtual Machine Login role not consistently applied.
    2. Certificates removed from the app registration on update.
    3. ‘Exclude from auto scale’ time restrictions unbounded.
    4. Downloading hourly pool details report is limited to 2 months.
    5. Unable to add RemoteApps if a single group is added.
    6. Deployment date not updated if deployed via CloudShell.
    7. Existing ControlUp agents redeploying when enabled in NME
    8. Storage autoscaling not working if storage account keys are disabled
    9. Link virtual network - insufficient privileges on first attempt
    10. Special characters not supported in Global Search bar

v4.5 (Released: Nov 23, 2022)

Intelligent Azure Capacity Extender (premium feature) - Overcome Azure compute capacity limits and soft limits on CPU core quotas by using intelligent mitigation for the Azure Capacity Extender. When selecting this option, the best and most similar VM size will be dynamically selected. Demo.
User Self-Service Resize (premium feature) - allow end users of personal desktops (e.g. developers) to resize their own desktops and disks from a list of allowed options. Learn more.Demo.
ControlUp Integration – Nerdio is excited to announce ControlUp integration. Deploy ControlUp monitoring agents to host pools automatically from the Nerdio Manager for Enterprise console. Demo
FSLogix Profile Reset - Delete or archive a user’s FSLogix profile to quickly resolve profile-related issues. Learn more.Demo.
Azure Compute Gallery Replicas - Images in the Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) can now be replicated, allowing for increased concurrent VM creation actions per image. Learn more.. Demo.
FSLogix File and Folder Redirection - Create custom rules to deliver dynamic file or disk redirection to users based on username or group membership. Learn more.Demo.
Host Pool Cloning Enhancements - When performing a clone operation, assign a custom App Group name and specify the target Resource Group and for the cloned pools. Learn more.Demo.
Global Search - User Sessions & RemoteApps - Administrators can now search for current user sessions and Remote Apps directly from the Global Search bar.
Bypass Drain Mode for personal host pools - For scenarios where placing hosts in drain mode prior to desktop shutdown is is undesirable, administrators can now skip this action.
Cloud PC Regional Settings - Cloud PC provisioning policies now support the inclusion of region settings. Learn more.
Resolved Issues
1. Administrators not able to set a personal host pool auto-shrink delay longer than 30 days.
2. Logs not getting refreshed automatically in some scenarios.
3. Scripted action wrapper updated for better compatibility.
4. Dashboard errors observed in Azure US Government environments when using Azure Resource Graph API features.
5. Creating an Azure AD joined file share may result in an error.
6. Error ‘Unexpected non white-spaces character after JSON' when associating hosts.
7. Azure files > Monthly Savings and Costs: Incorrect message when auto-scale is disabled.
8. Send Message on User Sessions page sending the notification twice.
9. Stale OS disks not being deleted after desktop restore.
10. Browser performance improvements.

v4.4 (Released: Oct 20, 2022)

Azure Capacity Extender (premium feature) – Overcome the Azure compute capacity limits by specifying multiple fallback VM sizes for use if capacity is exhausted for your preferred VM size in the region. This ensures that hosts creation, auto-scale, auto-grow, and auto-heal operations do not fail due to Azure capacity constraints. Learn more. Demo.
Global Search Bar –Search for resources, objects, and settings from the top of any page to quickly navigate to your desired location. Demo.
RBAC Scope for Images – Narrow the scope of available images to users with custom RBAC roles for desktop image management. Demo.
Auto-start Hosts for Maintenance – Power on all hosts in a pool during maintenance window operations to ensure installation of the latest AVD agent and other updates. Demo.
Remote App Maintenance Mode – Place Remote Apps in maintenance mode to allow for changes while keeping the session host active for other applications. Learn more. Demo.
Image Association Details – View and search image-to-host pool associations from the Desktop Images page.
Host Pool Actions Shortcut – Host pool level actions from the Session Host page. Demo.
Domain Join Azure Files with a Computer Account - Join Azure Files storage accounts to AD by creating either a user object or a computer object in Active Directory. When using the computer account option, AES256 encryption is automatically enabled. Learn more. Demo.
Allow Desktop Start Actions to be Grouped - This extends the batched action functionality from previous releases. Demo.
New REST API Endpoint: Import MSIX Image File - Upload an existing MSIX app attach image in VHD(X) format by specifying a link to the file.
Visual Studio Developer Desktop Images – Expanded the listing of Azure gallery images to include Visual Studio Developer images.
Exclude Unassigned Desktops from Auto Shrink - this option allows administrators to prevent new, unassigned desktops from being automatically removed via Auto Shrink.
Resolved Issues
1. Virtual machine Logon role not assigned to personal desktop users who had not been assigned to the host pool before being assigned to the desktop manually.
2. Unassigned VMs could not be automatically powered on for maintenance tasks.
3. Scale-out actions not performed if a current scale in action is in progress when ‘"reimage used hosts" is enabled.
4. Cloning host pools not cloning certain properties.
5. "Exclude from scale-in" pool operations not applying to currently running VMs.
6. Azure Monitor tab is not present on host pool properties page when in Standard Edition mode.
7. Download logs resulted in a timeout error in some large environments.

v4.3 (Released: Sep 16, 2022)

1. 1. AVD per-user cost reporting (premium feature) – report on precise per-individual-user costs by allocating the total cost of AVD deployment (compute, storage, network, PaaS, SaaS) to individual users based on duration of their usage of AVD desktops during the selected time period. Learn more.
  2. Personal host pool auto-shrink – Automatically remove desktops from personal host pool when these desktops have not been used for an extended period. Learn more. Demo.
  3. Automatic backup and restore of session hosts – enable automatic Azure backup on pooled and personal host pools. Back up and restore individual hosts. Learn more. Demo.
  4. FSLogix Office Containers – manage FSLogix Office Containers configuration in addition to the Profile Container configuration. Office Containers separate Microsoft Office data (e.g. OST file) from the overall user profile for easier troubleshooting. Office Containers and Profile Containers are stored in separate VHDX files and can be stored on different file shares. Learn more. Demo.
  5. Azure Resource Graph API Use Optimization – overcome Azure Resource Provider (e.g. Microsoft.Compute) API limits by leveraging Azure Resource Graph API. Use Features:ResourceGraphOptimizations Advanced App Service configuration option to enable.
  6. Self-service end user restore (premium feature) – allow end users of personal desktops (e.g. developers) to restore their own VM from backup. Learn more. Demo.
  7. Self-service end user desktop re-image (premium feature) – allow end users of personal desktops (e.g. developers) to re-image their own VM using an image made available to them by the administrator. Demo.
  8. Global Scheduled Tasks Custom View – view and manage all scheduled tasks on a single Custom View page. Learn more.
  9. Global RemoteApps Custom View – view and manage all RemoteApps published across all host pools on a single Custom View page.
  10. Global Custom Views Groups – Custom Views Groups created by AVD admins and populated with Custom Views assigned to other users are designated as global and will appear for all users who are assigned to a Custom View within the group.
  11. “MY CUSTOM VIEWS” group – Helpfully groups all running hosts, all user sessions, all RemoteApps and all scheduled tasks into a single customizable menu. Changes can be made from the Settings > Custom Views menu if required. Demo.
  12. Host Pool Utilization Insights – view average and peak user-to-CPU and user-to-RAM ratios for each host pool to determine if VMs and host pools are optimally sized, oversized, or undersized. Learn more. Demo.
  13. Enhanced searching – use built-in search field on all pages to filter items displayed in the table (e.g. find hosts using a specific image). Search matches are highlighted. Demo.
  14. “Excluded from auto-scale” filter option – list session hosts excluded from auto scale operations using this filter.
  15. Multiple resource group and network linking – select multiple resource groups or networks to link at the same time instead of linking them one-by-one. Learn more. Demo.
  16. Automatic FSLogix Agent update on build – Administrators can now choose to update the FSLogix agent to the newest available version on build if an older version is detected in the image.
  17. Scripted action ‘Update Windows 11’ – This scripted action allows Administrators to differentiate between Windows 10 & Windows 11 update tasks in their desktop pools.
  18. Host pool DR without FSLogix Cloud Cache - Host pool active/active DR can now be enabled without FSLogix Cloud Cache configured on the FSLogix profile. Profile replication from primary to secondary region must be handled in another way.
  19. Updated FSLogix and AVD agent – Versions of agents deployed have been updated to FSLogix 2201 hotfix 2 (2.9.8228.50276) and AVD Agent Version 1.0.4739.1000.
  20. Resolved Issues
    1. 1. After typing CONFIRM in the text input, could not use the Enter key to submit
      2. Azure tags not applying to new image versions created in Azure Compute Gallery with “set as image” operation
      3. Cloning desktop images across Azure regions or subscriptions fails when image name is too long
      4. Manually linking Log Analytics Workspace fails with “object reference not set to an instance of object” error
      5. Converting static to dynamic host pools would fail when host pool contains VMs that are connected to different networks. This validation can now be skipped.
      6. Automatically re-imaging host on user log off in a host pool where “Start VM on connect” is enabled would cause the VM to be stopped before Azure associates the session host and VM object
      7. Last Login column data not showing for host pools that use Sepago monitoring
      8. Use of certain invalid or special characters in AVD object names (e.g. workspaces and host pools) allowed
      9. When cloning host pools, the new App Group names are not intuitive
      10. When scripted actions are configured to run after AVD host creation, hosts may appear in a deactivated state
      11. RemoteApp ‘Friendly Name’ contains inaccurate value

v4.2 (Released: Jul 15, 2022)

1. 1. AVD per-user cost reporting (Private Preview - Premium Feature) – report on precise per-individual-user costs that allocate the total cost of AVD deployment (compute, storage, network, PaaS, SaaS) to individuals based on duration of their usage of AVD desktops during the selected time frame. Learn more.
  2. International currency configuration – select local currency for display of all Azure cost information in Nerdio Manager. Supported currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, NZD. Learn more. Demo
  3. Personal host pool auto-grow – dynamically expand the size of a personal desktop host pool by adding new session host VMs when the number of available (not assigned to a user) desktops falls below a pre-defined number or % of total. Learn more. Demo
  4. Re-image hosts opportunistically without forcing users to log off – re-image task will optionally wait for users to log off and only then re-image the session host VM. Alternatively, re-image process can force users to log off after a pre-defined grace period delay. Learn more. Demo
  5. Dynamic resource recommendations and filtering– create recommendation and filtering rules to assist with selection of VM sizes and OS disks when creating host pool or adding hosts. VMs are recommended based on vCPU availability in selected subscription and region, processor, VM family & version, number of cores & GB of RAM, and local temp storage. OS disks can be recommended based on storage type (premium, standard, SSD, HDD, or Ephemeral) and disk size. Resource selection rules can be used to suggest the best VM for a specific AVD use-case while taking into account core quota availability. They can also be used to limit the types of VMs and OS disks that can be used globally, in a Workspace, or even at specific host pool level. Learn more. Demo
  6. Validate IP address availability – verify that there is a sufficient number of available IP addresses on the selected network before deploying new VMs.
  7. Pre-stage OS disk for personal desktops – Ensure that all OS disks of stopped desktop VMs are converted to the faster “running” OS disk type before users connect in the morning and converted back to the cheaper “stopped” OS disk type after users log off for the day. Demo
  8. Custom Views Groups – simplify management of large AVD deployments by creating groups of Custom Views for items like host pools, session hosts, and user sessions that span multiple workspaces. Custom Views groups can have unique icons and contain any number of views. Custom Views groups can also be sorted automatically or manually to help with organization and order. Learn more. Demo
  9. Custom Views to RBAC role assignment – Custom views can be assigned to user who created the view, everyone with access to Nerdio Manager, or to one or more RBAC roles (both built-in and custom). Limit access or make Custom Views available to admins based on their role. Demo
  10. Advanced VM naming patterns – specify session host VM naming pattern to use sequential numbers or random alphanumeric characters. VMs can be named based on prefix + auto-generated 4-character suffix or based on a naming pattern with unique characters placed anywhere in the name of the VM. Learn more. Demo
  11. Trusted Launch support for custom images – when creating a new custom image and storing it in an Azure Compute Gallery, use Trusted Launch to allow session hosts created from this image to be more secure. Demo
  12. Display AVD agent and FSLogix apps version – versions of AVD agent and FSLogix apps included with every build of Nerdio Manager are listed on the UPDATES page.
  13. Custom RBAC roles to manage only hosts, users & groups assignments, and/or user sessions – granular RBAC role definition options to manage AVD workspaces. Role definitions now include Read Only & Full Access to one or more Workspaces, but also the ability to manage only session hosts, users & groups assignments, and/or user sessions. Learn more.
  14. Scheduled and bulk actions dynamic group size – default group (batch) size is automatically set to be ~20% of the number of selected items. For example, if 10 hosts are selected to be re-imaged, the default group size is set to 2 by default.
  15. Schedule tasks for individual session hosts – individual host operations (e.g. re-image, resize, start/stop) can be scheduled at the session host level in addition to the host pool level. Demo
  16. Cloud PC optimized images from Azure gallery – display Cloud PC optimized images listed in Azure Marketplace Gallery to be used for Windows 365 or AVD desktops. When Windows 365 is enabled these images will be listed by default. Otherwise, use advanced app service option to display these optimized images.
  17. Skip removal of local profiles during image creation – during the image creation process Nerdio Manager removes all local user profiles. This increases the likelihood of Sysprep success. Selecting this option will bypass this step and will not remove local user profiles before running Sysprep.
  18. Extended logging of Azure requests in task details – counts of requests to Azure over 5-minutes intervals on a per-task basis and verbose logging in case of Azure API limit errors.
  19. Start/stop non-deallocated image VM – if desktop image VM was shut down from within Windows without being deallocated, Nerdio Manager will detect this condition and recommend starting or deallocating this VM.
  20. Validate Azure VM agent status during VM creation – when creating new VMs (e.g. session hosts, desktop images, etc.) validate that the Azure VM agent status is “Ready” before proceeding with the rest of the configuration. This indicates that the VM provisioning processes succeeded. If status is not Ready, subsequent extensions will fail.
  21. Prevent workspace self-assignment by AVD Admins – advanced App Service configuration option prevents users with AVD Admin RBAC role from assigning workspaces to themselves that weren’t assigned to them by the workspace creator.
  22. Create a hybrid worker VM (scripted action) – builds a hybrid worker VM on a secured network and links it to the automation account used by Nerdio Manager to run Azure Runbooks scripted actions. Used in highly secure environments where private endpoints are required for all PaaS components of Nerdio Manager.
  23. Updated FSLogix version to 2201 hotfix 2 (2.9.8228.50276) – updated FSLogix installation extension to latest GA version.
  24. Resolved Issues
    1. Extra Azure storage accounts created during manual VM association process
    2. Personal session hosts placed in drain mode when stopped, users unable to log in with “Start VM on Connect”
    3. Custom tags specified at host pool level not applying to extensions
    4. Incorrect GPU drivers installed for NCas_T4_v3 VMs
    5. Re-image all hosts in a host pool task would fail when there are hosts in an “unhealthy” state
    6. Inability to deploy Sepago Log Analytics workspace to West US 3 region
    7. Unmanaged Azure Compute Gallery images not listed when image VM is not in a linked resource group
    8. Unmanaged Azure Compute Gallery images version not displaying in image list
    9. Cloning host pool does not copy custom RDP properties

v4.1 (Released: May 20, 2022)

1. 1. Azure Stack HCI (premium feature) – link Nerdio Manager to an on-premises Azure Stack HCI cluster. Create and manage Hybrid AVD host pools with VMs running on-premises using physical hardware. Create, manage, update, and export desktop images to be used for creation of session host VMs. VM are automatically created and managed through the familiar Nerdio Manager interface. Session hosts can be multi-session or single session and advanced features like scripted actions, monitoring, FSLogix, and more are fully supported. Learn more. Demo
  2. Azure API Limit Booster (premium feature) – extend Azure API limits in very large AVD deployments with thousands of VMs. Multiple client app registrations can be linked to one or more Azure subscriptions and API calls will be evenly distributed across these client app registrations multiplying the API limits thresholds. Learn more. Demo.
  3. Azure Dedicated Hosts – automate deployment of AVD session host VMs onto Azure Dedicated Hosts to enable compute isolation, which can be important in highly secured and compliant environments. After creating a host group and at least one dedicated host, individual AVD host pools can be enabled to use isolated capacity by creating VMs on selected host groups and dedicated hosts. Demo.
  4. Last user login time – add a new column to session hosts table that displays the date and time when the last user logged in. Hosts in the list can be sorted by this value to find ones that haven’t been used in a while. Demo.
  5. AVD agent scheduled updates – specify days and times to update the AVD agent, side-by-side stack, and Geneva Monitoring agent per host pool. Learn more. Demo.
  6. Exclude hosts from auto-scale on manual start/stop – disable auto-scale on selected hosts for a number of hours when manually powering the VM on or off. When starting VMs on a schedule to apply updates auto-scale will not automatically stop them until after the number of hours specified elapses. Learn more.
  7. Exclude multiple hosts from auto-scale – select multiple hosts and use bulk action to exclude them from auto-scale until date/time specified or indefinitely.
  8. Azure Files default share-level permissions – add a default share-level permission on storage account, instead of configuring individual share-level permissions for Azure AD uses or groups. With a default share-level permission, all authenticated users and groups will have the same level of access to the file share. Users and groups can be authenticated against the on-premises Active Directory that the storage account is associated with. Default share-level permission is useful when all users need same level of access to the content (e.g. read-only access to MSIX images) or if managing permissions at file/folder level is preferred rather than at Azure roles level. Demo.
  9. Detect Firewall restrictions on Storage Accounts – to auto-scale or otherwise manage Azure storage accounts, Nerdio Manager App Service must have access to the storage account. If network firewall is enabled on the storage account but Nerdio Manager App Service is not allowed access, a warning message will be displayed with instructions on how to resolve the problem. Learn more.
  10. Highlight and fix failed host additions – session hosts VMs that cannot be properly created because of networking or Active Directory issues are highlighted on the session hosts page and easy remediation actions to restart or delete the VMs are provided. Learn more. Demo.
  11. Edit published RemoteApps – modify properties of previously published RemoteApps.
  12. Customize session host views - show or hide individual columns when viewing session host tables.
  13. RDP Shortpath for Public Networks (scripted action) - RDP Shortpath transport is a feature of Azure Virtual Desktop that establishes a direct UDP data flow between Remote Desktop Client and Session host. RDP uses this data flow to deliver Remote Desktop and RemoteApp while offering better reliability and consistent latency. Enable RDP Shortpath to increase user session performance by running this scripted action on hosts within a host pool.
  14. FSLogix Profiles shrink optimizations (scripted action) – expanded capabilities of existing FSLogix Profiles shrink script to allow specifying variables during runtime or schedule creation, improved temp VM resource clean up in case of errors, added additional parameters like DeleteOlderThanDays, and support for mounting SMB shares with username/password and Azure storage account keys.
  15. New REST API
    1. Get list of MSIX apps in images library
    2. Get list of MSIX App Attach storage locations
    3. Upload MSIX apps
    4. Add multiple session hosts with single API call
    5. Add session hosts to multi-session host pools
    6. Configure multiple pre-stage triggers
  16. Resolved issues
    1. Azure Files storage account name and length validation
    2. Azure Files permissions on newly created shares are now more restrictive by default
    3. AD profile user added as local administrator on temp VM when joining Azure Files to AD

v4.0 (Released: Apr 3, 2022)

1. 1. Premium Edition – new edition of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise with premium functionality for large and complex AVD deployments. Support for multiple deployment architectures including cross-sovereign cloud and upcoming on-premises Azure Stack HCI, advanced auto-scaling and storage optimizations, Windows 365 license cost management, advanced DR options, flexible RBAC controls, upcoming per-user cost attribution, REST API integration, Azure DevOps support, and much more. Learn more.
  2. Azure Log Analytics cost optimization (premium feature) – Log Analytics is used by Azure Monitor AVD Insights (and other monitoring solutions like Sepago) to collect and store diagnostic data. The size and cost of Log Analytics can quickly grow and make up a large component of the overall AVD cost. Azure Log Analytics pricing is complex and depends on ingestion rate, retention period, performance counters collected, and sampling frequency. Nerdio Manager analyzes all these dimensions and makes recommendations on how to best optimize Log Analytics costs. Learn more. Demo.
    1. Pricing tier recommendation based on historical ingestion rate
    2. Retention period adjustment with “what if” cost impact analysis
    3. Performance counters sampling frequency profiles for low, medium, and high logging levels with cost impact
    4. Individual counter sampling frequency adjustment based on largest cost contributors and “what if” cost impact analysis
  3. Customizable auto-heal task sequence – when a host is detected to be in a broken state (e.g. Unavailable, Upgrading for too long, lost domain trust, etc.) an auto-heal sequence can be defined to remediate the problem. The sequence can include VM restart, scripted actions (e.g. re-install SxS, re-register host with AVD, etc.) and VM remove, which will re-create the host through auto-scale. Demo.
  4. Auto-heal sequences for personal host pools – auto-heal sequences can be used with both pooled and personal desktops. Personal desktops can be automatically restart (one or more times) and scripted actions can be executed against them such as SxS re-install or AVD host re-register. Learn more
  5. Windows 365 point-in-time restores - Point-in-time restore lets an administrator restore a Cloud PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time. Admins can also give users permission to restore their own Cloud PCs. You can choose to save short-term restore points every 4, 6, 12, 16, or 24 hours. Each Cloud PC will have 10 restore points saved at the intervals that you define in the user setting. For example, if you chose four hour intervals, a Cloud PC will have 10 restore points spread out every four hours over the last 40 hours. Learn more here and here.
  6. Exclude hosts from auto-scale – individual session hosts within host pools with auto-scale enabled can now be excluded from scale in and/or scale out indefinitely or for a predefined period. Useful when certain VMs are not healthy and need to be put into maintenance mode or when long running operations must not be interrupted during scale in time window. Learn more. Demo.
  7. Generate RDP file to access VMs – generate RDP file with a click of a button that connect admins directly to an image VM or a session host VM. Learn more
  8. Apply Azure tags to new resources – when creating new resources (desktop images, Azure Files shares, workspaces, host pools, and hosts) specify custom Azure tags to be applied to all relevant Azure objects (e.g. VMs, disks, network interfaces, images, app groups, etc). Tags applied during dynamic host pool creation will be remembered and automatically applied when new resources are added to the host pool in the future. Demo.
  9. Days after “Patch Tuesday” scheduling – schedule image or host operations to happen a certain number of days after Patch Tuesday Update images after Patch Tuesday and roll out updated image to host pools. Demo.
  10. Directory profiles friendly names – add friendly names to Active Directory, Azure AD, or Azure AD DS directory profiles. Friendly names make it easier to select the correct profile in environments with many options due to multiple domains and/or OUs.
  11. Clone directory profile – clone existing directory profiles (Active Directory, Azure AD, or Azure AD DS) without access to the underlying secure password information. Demo.
  12. Scripted actions execution timeout – Azure runbook scripted actions using “Individual” execution mode can now have a custom timeout period to allow long running processes to complete without being detected as failed.
  13. Remember previously added personal desktop image and size – properties of most recently added personal desktop VM (image, VM size, OS disk, resource group, and network) will be remembered and set as default for future host additions.
  14. Power on host pool VMs for X hours (scripted action) – Schedule an Azure runbook scripted action to power on all VMs in a host pool and prevent them from scaling back in for a predefined number of hours. This is useful in situations where maintenance needs to run on these VMs during a maintenance window and they cannot be shut down.
  15. Change OS disk type (scripted action) – Schedule an Azure runbook scripted action to convert OS disks of stopped VM to Standard HDD, Standard SSD, or Premium SSD storage tier. Useful with personal host pools using “user-driven” auto-scale to prepare all VMs in the morning to have a fast disk and change it back to cheaper storage at night.
  16. Verify successful App Service start after update – app update process verifies the successful start of App Service before completing.
  17. Remove dependence on User.Read.All application-level permission – User.Read.All application API permission can now be removed from Nerdio Manager App Registration API permission list without adverse effects to the platform. Learn more
  18. Remove dependence on Group.Read.All application-level permission – Group.Read.All application API permission can now be removed from Nerdio Manager App Registration permission list without adverse effects to the platform. Learn more
  19. Configurable Sysprep timeout value – App Service configuration setting to change the number of minutes the “set as image” process waits for Sysprep to complete (default is 15 minutes). Useful in environments where Sysprep or computer shutdown takes a very long time.
  20. Updated FSLogix version to 2201 (2.9.811.53415) – updated FSLogix installation extension to latest GA version.
  21. Resolved issues
    1. Disable incompatible disk sizes when resizing VMs
    2. “Set as image” API call does not append notes to Change Log
    3. Installation of NVIDIA GPU drivers causes a restart of VM and interrupts “Create VM” task
    4. Force unlinking of resource groups even if host pools are present
    5. Custom DNS policies where FQDN of VMs doesn’t match the domain name appear as “not associated”
    6. NME_Username tag not being added to OS disks and network interfaces of personal desktops
    7. FSLogix App Masking application discovery tasks will not initiate several tasks incorrectly.
    8. Azure Compute Gallery versions were incorrectly selecting the most recent version when an older version was chosen during re-image and provisioning.
    9. Uninstalling FSLogix and AVD Agents will now complete properly when importing a desktop image.

v3.5 (Released: Feb 17, 2022)

1. 1. Azure DevOps repositories - synchronize scripted actions with Azure DevOps repositories. Use your favorite tools, like Visual Studio Code, to edit and maintain scripted actions with all the power of Azure DevOps workflows, versioning, and so much more. Scripted actions are automatically synchronized with Azure DevOps repositories and any changes take effect immediately without the need for configuration changes to be made in Nerdio Manager. Demo
  2. Azure Files AAD Join – create new Azure Files shares and automatically join them to Azure AD. AAD-joined file shares can be used to host FSLogix profiles and used with AAD-joined session hosts. Demo
  3. Modify user assignment on personal desktops - assign, un-assign, or change the assigned user on personal desktop VMs.
  4. Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker – leverage dedicated hybrid worker VMs to integration Azure Automation accounts with environments that require private endpoints. Hybrid worker VMs are connected directly to a VNet and Scripted actions can be used when Key Vault and other NME components are only accessible via private endpoints. Demo
  5. Windows 365 Enterprise AAD Join – provision Cloud PCs without on-premises AD domain controllers. Both customer-managed and Microsoft-managed VNets are supported. Cloud PCs provision faster and join Azure AD automatically. Demo
  6. Bulk actions in custom views – run bulk actions like “Run script”, “Restart”, and “Power off” on session hosts in custom views. Demo
  7. Session host performance statistics – view real-time session host VM performance statistics directly on the session hoss page. Stats include server uptime, CPU utilization, free RAM %, and OS disk queue depth. Demo
  8. Hourly scheduling interval - schedule Scripted actions, desktop images operations, and host pool bulk actions to run as frequently as every hour.
  9. Start VM on Connect with all auto-scale triggers – all auto-scale triggers can now be used with Start VM on Connect. Previously, only “user-driven” trigger could be used. Scale in process will detect that VM was started outside of Nerdio Manager and add a delay before scaling in the VM to allow user sufficient time to log in. Demo
  10. Burst capacity with User-driver auto-scale trigger – once all available VMs are consumed, auto-scale will automatically build new burst capacity VMs.
  11. Extended User-driven auto-scale trigger log off delay – new selections to wait before scaling in an empty session host VM when using User-driven trigger. New options added: 8 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours. Demo
  12. Power on spare hosts during auto-heal – if auto-heal operation requires deletion and re-creation of broken host VM, a spare VM will be powered on to replace the capacity, if available. Demo
  13. Display per-MAU costs – add per-monthly-active-user costs calculations to Workspaces and Host pools costs & savings columns
  14. DESKTOPS module for Admins – the DESKTOPS module provides self-service capability to users with “end-user” RBAC role. Now the DESKTOPS module is visible to users with custom RBAC roles, when selected.
  15. Scripted actions variables for Desktop Images - new variables are passed to scripted actions when running “set as image” operation on desktop images ($DesktopImageVmName, $DesktopImageActiveVersion, and $DesktopImageStagedVersion). Demo
  16. “NME_username” tag for personal desktops – new tag is created on personal desktop VMs when a user is assigned to the session host. Demo
  17. UI enhancements
    1. Counts of filtered and total items in tables – counts of rows are now shown in various tables. Demo
    2. New “VM running” status filter on session hosts page – with this new status filter it is possible for display only session hosts that are currently started. Demo
    3. TiB units free space % for Azure NetApp Files volumes – used and total space is now shown in TiB (previously GiB) and free space % is shown for all Azure NetApp Files volumes.
    4. Searching for “not contains” strings in all search fields. For example: filtering hosts that don’t contain “avd” in the name by searching for -“avd”. Demo
    5. Both host pool name and friendly name are displayed on User sessions page
  18. New REST API methods
    1. Get list of scheduled tasks on Desktop Image
    2. Assign Workspaces to users/groups with built-in roles
  19. Resolved issues
    1. Incorrect time zone shown on scheduled tasks on the “Next Run” line
    2. Active "Set as image" task preparing a staged image version is blocking host creation from active image version until it completes
    3. “Set all hosts to running OS disk type” when User-driven auto-scale trigger is selected
    4. Auto-heal stalled host removal interferes with host pre-staging

v3.4 (Released: Dec 31, 2021)

1. 1. Multi-trigger auto-scale – Configure host pools to scale in and out based on up to 3 usage criteria. Auto-scale triggers can be CPU+RAM, CPU+RAM+Sessions, CPU+Sessions, or RAM+sessions. Host pool capacity will increase (scale out) when ANY of the scale out triggers are true and will decrease (scale in) when ALL scale in triggers are true. Demo
  2. Windows 365 license auto-assignment – Avoid purchasing too many Windows 365 licenses for users who will not log into the Cloud PC. Authorize users to access a Cloud PC and allow Nerdio Manager to automatically assign a Windows 365 license when the user actually logs in for the first time. Save up to 40% in unused license costs. Demo
  3. Windows 365 unused license reclamation – Reclaim unused Windows 365 licenses from users who are no longer using their Cloud PC for a pre-defined period of time. Users may leave the organization or change their work habits to no longer use a Cloud PC. Reclaimed licenses can be used for other users or cancelled. Demo
  4. Windows 365 inactive user license parking – Cloud PCs are not used 24/7 since users are actively connected to their Cloud PC only 40-50 hours per week. Park a user’s Cloud PC license while the user is not connected and use a less expensive, "parking" license instead. When user connects back into the Cloud PC the original license is re-assigned. This reduces the total number of needed licenses and can save up to 25% on monthly license costs. Demo
  5. Trusted Launch – automatically enable Trusted Launch for session host generation 2 VMs by setting a property on a host pool. Demo
  6. “Manage hosts only” custom RBAC role – Delegate host VM management to admins without ability to make changes to host pool configuration. Demo
  7. Ephemeral OS Temp Disk placement – Leverage capabilities of new VM families to place Ephemeral OS disks (EOSD) in the temp disk allocation rather than the included disk cache. This allows for smaller VMs sizes to leverage EOSDs (e.g. D4d_v5 up to 150 GB OS disk and d2d_v5 up to 75 GB OS disk) Demo
  8. Retain OS and data disks when deleting and re-imaging hosts – advanced App Service configuration to not delete OS and data disks when hosts are deleted or re-imaged.
  9. Move VM to another Availability Zone (scripted action) – Move VMs from current Availability Zone to another within the same Azure region. Useful when capacity is constrained in the default AZ1.
  10. Assign list of users to personal desktops (scripted action) – Assign a list of comma separated users to unassigned personal desktops in a host pool.
  11. Search personal host pool by username - Search hosts in a personal host pool by assigned username.
  12. Resolved issues
    1. Incorrect job ID being returned during re-image host REST API call
    2. Auto-heal attempting to repair VMs recently started by “Start VM on Connect” before the user gets a chance to log in
    3. AAD joined VM registration not removed from AAD when host VM is removed or re-imaged
    4. Scripted action running multiple times in some Azure regions
    5. Join to AVD sub-task completing with an error after a long time even though it succeeds
    6. Improved handling of MSIX image removal
    7. AAD joined VM with Intune policies affecting AVD agent installation. AAD join process can be moved to happen after AVD agent installation with advanced App Service option.

v3.3 (Released: Nov 5, 2021)

1. 1. Installed apps management – leverage FSLogix App Masking technology to automatically discover applications installed on a host pool and configure rules to determine which users can access which applications. User access can be controlled at individual app level and can be assigned by user or security group. Multiple apps can be grouped together for consolidate access management. Simply install all the needed apps on the desktop image, update session hosts, and define which users can access which apps. Demo
  2. RAM auto-scale trigger – host pool auto-scale behavior can be driven by host VM RAM usage. Scale out (power on or create new VMs) when usage exceeds a pre-configured maximum threshold and scale back in (delete VMs or power them off) when usage drops below a minimum threshold. Nerdio Manager now supports 5 auto-scale triggers to accommodate any use-case. They are: CPU, RAM, Average Active Sessions, Available Sessions Buffer, and User-driven. Demo
  3. Custom RBAC roles – create custom roles to control admin access to all areas of Nerdio Manager. Custom roles define scope and level of access and can be assigned to users and security groups. Users can access modules in read-only or full access mode. Demo
  4. Availability Zone selection - select automatic or manual mode for distributing VMs across a set of Availability Zones. In automatic mode, VMs will be evenly distributed across all zones in an Azure region. In manual mode, admins can specify the zones they want used. In situations when Availability Zone 1 is out of capacity, VMs can be configured in zones 2 and 3 only. Demo
  5. “What’s new” announcements – relevant product updates will be displayed the first time a user opens a newly updated version of Nerdio Manager. Announcements will include new features with detailed descriptions and links to video tutorials and documentation.
  6. Collect CPU, RAM, and sessions data – Dynamic host pools with auto-scale enabled will collect usage data and display it on Auto-scale History page to assist with auto-scale configuration and VM sizing. CPU, RAM, and user session data is graphically visualized to help determine optimal scale out/in thresholds and optimal user-to-VM density.
  7. Prevent users from saving passwords – enable host pool level option to require users to always type in their passwords when logging into a desktop session. This prevents users from being able to use saved credentials on their local devices. Demo
  8. Session timeout setting – define custom browser session timeout settings and control session refresh behavior of Nerdio Manager application. Default session timeout is 60 minutes with auto-refresh enabled. App Service configuration settings can be used to control this timeout duration and auto-refresh.
  9. Force unlinking of resources - previously resources deleted in Azure portal outside of Nerdio Manager preventing unlinking of certain Resource Groups and Networks. Now unliking can be forced even there are "orphan" objects still referring to the network or resource group.
  10. Updated AVD agent installation extension – latest version of AVD agent version (1.0.3373.2600) is automatically installed during session host creation. The agent is then updated by AVD service automatically when new version becomes available.
  11. Updated FSLogix version to 2105 HF_01 (2.9.7979.62170) - Updated to the latest FSLogix Apps release per Microsoft guidance.
  12. New API calls
    1. Trigger "Force auto-scale start" task after changing auto-scale properties (if enabled)
    2. Run script on desktop image
    3. Update and delete scripted actions
  13. Resolved issues
    1. Notification service mail token expiration – indicator if Exchange Online token has expired and click to renew it
    2. Ephemeral OS disk VM shut down in Windows – auto-scale will proactively start VMs with Ephemeral OS disks that were shut down from within the operating system
    3. OS disk auto-scaling during “re-image on log off” – VMs that are automatically re-imaged on user log off will be automatically converted to “Stopped VM” OS disk type
    4. Removed "Allow" command line option from RemoteApp publishing page as it's no longer supported
    5. Enabled user message by default on re-image hosts pop-up
    6. Custom RDP properties on host pools properly synchronized with Azure portal settings
    7. Removed Windows 11 "preview" labels since it's now GA and added ability to use Windows 11 when creating desktop image from existing VM
    8. Gen2 VMs are now requires for Cloud PC images

v3.2 (Released: Oct 1, 2021)

1. 1. Azure AD join support for multi-session host pools AND FSLogix - both personal and pooled host pools can be used with Azure AD joined session host VMs. FSLogix is supported when used with Azure Files and is automatically configured to use Azure blob storage mode with securely stored storage access keys and Cloud Cache. Demo
  2. “User-driven” multi-session host pool auto-scaling mode – new auto-scale trigger to scale out using Start VM on Connect and scale in based on lack of sessions on session host VMs. Combine user-driven scaling with pre-stage schedules to improve users' login experience during logon storms and leverage scale in time restrictions. Demo
  3. Individualized UI themes – each user of Nerdio Manager can configure their own UI theme. Demo
  4. Drain all hosts during scale in hours – set drain mode on all hosts while scaling in after work hours keeping only the minimum number of hosts accessible to new sessions. Accelerate consolidation of users onto minimum active hosts and scale in all other VMs. Demo
  5. Scheduled scripted actions for Desktop Images – run scheduled scripted actions on Desktop Images (for example Windows updates). VM will be powered on, script will be executed based on schedule, and VM will be shut back down. Demo
  6. Use backup versions of Shared Image Gallery images - unmanaged, backed up versions of desktop images are listed in their own section of the Desktop Images drop down list and can be used to restore any changes made to session hosts through re-image. Demo
  7. Define execution order of Windows scripts and Azure runbooks – it is now possible to define the execution order of scripted actions based on a single list of actions rather than Windows scripts first and Azure runbooks second. Windows scripts and Azure runbooks can be executed in any order. Demo
  8. “VM create” and “AVD host register” scripted actions triggers – define when scripted actions will run during VM deployment. Some scripts can run immediately after VM is created while others can run after it is joined to AVD host pool but before the host is available to users. Demo
  9. “SATrigger” and “SATriggerMode” variables for scripted actions – New status variables passed to scripted actions that provide context of how the script was executed (e.g. on a schedule, during VM creation, image creation, etc.) Demo
  10. Azure Files SMB multichannel – enable Azure Files SMB multichannel by default when creating Azure Files shares to improve FSLogix performance. Demo
  11. Download Application Insights logs – button to download App Insights exceptions directly from Nerdio Manager when submitting a support request. No need to do this in Azure portal. Demo
  12. Cloud PC indicator when no primary user assigned (Windows 365) – indicator on Cloud PCs page of those devices where primary Intune user is not assigned and ability to assign Cloud PC user as the primary Intune user. Cloud PCs without Intune assigned users cannot be managed with Intune. Demo
  13. Resize Cloud PC (Windows 365) – Resize Cloud PCs to an available size without user data loss. Demo
  14. End Cloud PC grace period (Windows 365) – Immediately de-provision Cloud PCs that are currently in 7-day grace period. Demo
  15. New REST API
    1. Support for multiple Nerdio Manager instances within a single AAD tenant using REST API
    2. Delete host pool
    3. Set re-image all hosts schedule on host pool
    4. Run or schedule script on host pool
    5. Enable and configure Azure Files auto-scale
    6. Enable and configure Azure NetApp Files auto-scale
    7. Get Named, Concurrent, and Monthly Active Users for past month
    8. Link new subscription
    9. Link new network
    10. Link new resource group
  16. Security
    1. Control session or persistent cookies with Advanced App Service configurations option.
  17. Fixed bugs
    1. Detect and work around erroneously reported Azure VM status being “stopped” while VM is running during scale in

v3.1 (Released: Aug 30, 2021)

1. 1. Azure AD joined VMs (preview) – add Azure AD directory profile and create session hosts and image VMs joined to Azure AD instead of Active Directory. Automatically enroll VMs in Intune for centralized management without the need for Active Directory. (NOTE: While in preview, certain features are unavailable, including FSLogix profiles and Azure Files share access). Demo
  2. Host pool Disaster Recovery – enable host pool level active/active DR configuration and Nerdio Manager will automatically distribute session hosts across two Azure regions. Users will be distributed across VMs in both regions as they log in and FSLogix profiles will be automatically replicated using Cloud Cache. In case of an Azure region failure users will continue accessing VMs in the available region. Demo
  3. Reserved Instances (RI) analytics and recommendations – save up to additional 60% on the cost of Azure compute by using Reserved Instances in combination with auto-scaling. Nerdio Manager will analyze prior auto-scale behavior and recommend quantity of CPU core reservations to purchase to take advantage of RI savings. Demo
  4. Multiple auto-scale schedules – create multiple auto-scale pre-stage settings to ramp up host pool capacity during certain days of week and times of days. In education environments multiple schedules can be used to turn on VMs based on a pre-defined class schedule. Demo
  5. Custom pre-stage schedule day selection - auto-scale pre-staging schedule can be set based on preset date ranges (e.g. Monday-Friday) or by selecting one or more individual days of week. Demo
  6. "User-driven" personal host pool auto-scaling mode – new auto-scaling mode for personal host pools that will automatically stop VMs when users log off and turn VMs back on when users attempt to connect. If users shut down their desktop VM in Windows (without deallocating in Azure) it will be automatically deallocated. Demo
  7. Directory profile and FSLogix configuration when creating host pools – select Directory profile (e.g. Azure AD or Active Directory) and FSLogix configuration profile during host pool creation. Adds ability disable FSLogix before creating any session hosts, if it’s not needed. Demo
  8. 32 GB OS disk support – save on session host VM OS disk costs by shrinking the image down to 32 GB on highly optimized images. Can be utilized together with the “Shrink OS disk” scripted action. Small disks can also enable the use of Ephemeral OS disks on smaller VMs with smaller disk cache sizes. Demo
  9. Force user log off on hung/stopped hosts – force log off user sessions if they cannot be logged off normally. Sessions “stuck” on crashed or stopped session hosts will be released so users can reconnect to another host in the host pool.
  10. Azure list price discount configuration (advanced option) – this advanced App Service configuration option can apply a negotiated discount to Azure prices, which will be reflected in all costs and savings calculations. Demo
  11. Add suffix to personal desktop creation – when creating a single personal desktop VM, allow Nerdio Manager to append a unique prefix, just like it does when creating multiple personal desktops, instead of using a "strict" provided name. Demo
  12. Un-assign user from personal desktop (scripted action) – use this scripted action to remove user assignment from an existing personal desktop session host. The host will be put back into “unassigned” state and can be re-assigned to another user. Demo
  13. “Run now” host pool re-image without deleting schedule – trigger a host pool re-image operation to “run now” without deleting an existing schedule. It is also possible to modify the scheduled task properties without deleting and re-creating it. Demo
  14. Automatic Nerdio Manager updates (scripted action) – use this scripted action Azure runbook to update Nerdio Manager app service to the latest available version. Schedule the scripted action to run unattended.
  15. Configure regional Windows settings (scripted action) – use this scripted action during session host deployment (host pool VM deployment page) to customize the regional settings of deployed VMs.
  16. Windows 11 support (preview) - deploy Windows 11 single-session and multi-session images. Now available in the Desktop Images drop down selector. Demo
  17. Auto-scale host pool queue size (advanced option) - limit the number of auto-scale processes that can run concurrently. Each auto-scale task handles one host pool and runs every 5 minutes, by default. In very large environments, limiting the number of concurrent tasks allows for distribution of SQL database IO and Azure API load rather than processing all host pools at the same time. Demo
  18. New REST API
    1. Return AVD host status when querying session host
    2. Delete session host
    3. Get list of all linked networks
    4. Get list of all linked resource groups
  19. Fixed bugs
    1. Desktop image cloning not detecting hardware version properly as gen1/gen2
    2. Azure NetApp Files mount path detected incorrectly when volume name doesn't match mount path
    3. "Load VM statistics" error during re-image operation
    4. Default custom RDP properties explicitly set

v3.0 (Released: Jul 14, 2021)

1. 1. Windows 365 Cloud PC – Nerdio Manager is now fully integrated with the newly announced Windows 365 Cloud PC service. Deploy cloud PCs in minutes by preparing your existing environment for Windows 365 Enterprise. Manage cloud PCs, network connections, provisioning policies, user settings, and group assignments. Leverage scripted actions to manage and optimize cloud PCs. Enabling demo | Images demo | Scripted actions demo
  2. Teradici PCoIP – extend Azure deployments with Teradici PCoIP protocol. Automate Teradici CAS deployment and add PCoIP as an option to any existing or new host pools. Both single-user personal (persistent) and single-user pooled (floating) host pools are supported.
  3. FSLogix configuration profiles – configure one or more FSLogix configuration profiles and apply different sets of FSLogic settings to individual host pools. The default profile will apply to all new host pools, by default, but can changed to any other profile on the properties page. Replaces the need to manage multiple FSLogix configurations via GPO and makes it easy to manage from a single interface. Demo
  4. FSLogix Cloud Cache – enable FSLogix Cloud Cache with a check box on any configuration profile and specify up to 4 paths to replicate VHD profiles to. Great way to replicate FSLogix data across Azure regions and different files shares for resilience and disaster recovery. Demo
  5. Azure China cloud – extend AVD deployments into Azure China cloud by adding Azure China subscription to an existing AVD deployments to be used for session host VMs. Nerdio Manager now supports Azure Global, Azure US Government and Azure China clouds. Demo
  6. Product rename and WVD to AVD change – changed name from Nerdio Manager for WVD to Nerdio Manager for Enterprise to complement Nerdio Manager for MSP. All WVD and Windows Virtual Desktop references changed to AVD and Azure Virtual Desktop.
  7. Custom views – create custom views of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions that can span multiple workspaces, resource groups, subscriptions, or Azure clouds. Configure the ideal page view with all searching and filtering capability and save the configuration to your own profile or for all Nerdio Manager admins. Select a custom view as your default page that will open automatically on login to Nerdio Manager. Demo
  8. Default page – select any page as the default and it will automatically open on login to Nerdio Manager. Demo
  9. Add external users – grant RBAC role access to Nerdio Manager to external/guest Azure AD users. Demo
  10. Azure AD DS profiles – new check box to let Nerdio Manager know that an Active Directory configuration profile is for Azure AD DS. When adding Azure Files shares, the storage account will be automatically enabled in Azure AD DS. Also, “display non-AD synched users and groups” filter will enabled if any Azure AD DS profiles are created. Demo
  11. Azure NetApp Files auto-scale history, costs, and savings – graphically view Azure NetApp Files auto-scale activity and track storage costs and savings.
  12. Enable private endpoint for App Service and SQL database (scripted action) – enable private vNet endpoint on App Service and SQL database, which increases security of Nerdio Manager deployment and allows access to vNet integrated storage accounts.
  13. REST API to assign secure variables to scripted actions – new API call to modify secure variable assignment to scripted actions without modifying the content.
  14. Auto-scale max number of hosts – modify the default 999 VM per host pool limit via App Service configuration setting. Demo
  15. Security hardening – apply hardened security settings to automatically deployed Azure resources
    1. App Service: “HTTPS Only” option set to On
    2. Storage accounts: Enabled “Secure transfer required”, Disabled “Allow Blob public access”, set “Minimum TLS version” to 1.2
  16. FSLogix version 2105 – Updated to the latest FSLogix release.

v2.11 (Released: Jun 4, 2021)

1. 1. Storage auto-scale (Azure NetApp Files) – ensure high performance of Azure NetApp Files at the lowest possible cost. The performance of an Azure NetApp Files volume is determined by the volume size, regardless of capacity actually used. Storage auto-scale increases the volume size during times of peak demand (e.g. log-on and log-off storms) and decreases it automatically when the extra boost in performance is no longer needed. This is done based on a schedule and/or in response to elevated IO latency. Storage auto-scale also automatically grows volume (and capacity pool) size when capacity reaches a pre-defined threshold ensuring that it never runs out of space. Combining storage auto-scale with FSLogix profile optimization scripted action provides best possible performance at the lowest cost, making WVD even more affordable. Demo
  2. Auto re-image used desktops on log off – ensure that users always log into a pristine, image-based session host by refreshing (re-imaging) used VMs after users log off. In single-user pooled scenarios, desktops will be automatically re-imaged when users log off. In multi-user pooled scenarios, session hosts will be re-imaged as soon as the last user logs off. This way, all hosts will be always kept up-to-date and in pristine state. Demo
  3. Variables integration with scripted actions – simplify the process of running Azure runbook scripted actions with Run now or Schedule command. Instead of modifying the scripted action to define parameters inside of the script, specify all needed variables in UI when running it. The scripted action can also define all required and optional variables and block execution unless all needed parameters are provided. Demo
  4. Summary dashboard – consolidated dashboard that combines usage, costs, and savings across all Workspaces in WVD deployment. Select desired time range and view graphs of named, concurrent, and active users. View graphs of host pools, hosts, and total CPUs. Review and export data on compute and storage costs savings. Demo
  5. Multi-select bulk actions on session hosts and user sessions – perform all session host actions (e.g. restart, drain mode, re-image, resize, delete, log off, etc.) on multiple hosts with multi-host actions. Similarly, perform actions on multiple user sessions (e.g. send message, disconnect, log off). Demo
  6. Sorting by column in all tables – sort tables by columns throughout the portal. Sort hosts by name or date provisioned, host pools by friendly name or type, or logs by user or resource name. Demo
  7. Dark portal UI themes – use pre-defined or create your own dark UI themes. Demo
  8. Re-designed host pool properties - consolidated all host pool properties pop-ups (e.g. Active Directory, FSLogix, WVD, VM deployment, etc.) into a single page that easier to navigate and make changes in one place. Demo
  9. Start VM on connect for pooled host pools – enable “Start VM on connect” functionality with a single click for both pooled and personal host pools. Demo
  10. Storage cost optimization for personal desktops – auto-scale can automatically change OS disk type of VMs in both pooled and personal host pools to a cheaper storage tier (e.g. from premium SSD to standard HDD) while the host VM is powered off and back to the more performance tier right before it’s started. This provides a significant storage cost reduction while VMs aren’t in use. Demo
  11. Place “old” hosts into drain mode while re-imaging – prevent users from logging into hosts based on previous version of an image while the host pool is being re-imaged. Once the first batch of hosts is re-imaged to the latest image version, the remaining hosts are placed into drain mode. As each new batch of hosts comes online users are directed to new hosts only. Demo
  12. Storage auto-scale history, costs and savings – costs and savings resulting from storage auto-scale are now tracked and can be graphed and reported on. Demo
  13. Shrink image VM OS disk to 64GB (scripted action) – reduce the size of an image VM's OS disk from the default 128GB to 64GB. This reduces storage costs for session host VMs by requiring a smaller disk and allows for use of smaller VMs with ephemeral OS disks. Demo
  14. Filter personal desktops by unassigned status – filter desktop VMs in personal host pools by assigned/unassigned status to see if new VMs need to be created to accommodate new users. Demo
  15. Expanded logging for Azure runbooks - scripted actions Details logs now include all Azure automation output streams: stdout, error and warnings. Demo
  16. New REST API calls Demo
    1. Get and update host pool Active Directory settings
    2. Get and update host pool FSLogix settings
    3. Get and update host pool Custom RDP settings
    4. Get and update host pool WVD settings
    5. Get and update host pool VM deployment settings
    6. Get and update host pool session time limits
    7. Get and update host pool custom tag
    8. Add/remove secure variables for scripted actions
    9. Trigger run once or schedule scripted actions Azure runbooks
    10. Get all scheduled tasks for host pool
  17. Install Remote Display Analyzer (scripted action) - RDAnalyzer is a tool that analyzes display protocol performance. Free version is installed by this scripted action but a subscription can be purchased from Remote Display Analyzer (rdanalyzer.com).
  18. Windows 10 21H1 images - added support for deploying Windows 10 21H1 as a new desktop image.

v2.10 (Released: Apr 30, 2021)

Storage auto-scale (Azure Files Premium) – Ensure high performance of Azure Files at the lowest possible cost. The performance characteristics of Azure Files Premium are determined by the provisioned capacity quota. Storage auto-scale increases capacity quota in response to increased storage latency (or on a schedule), and decreases it when the extra performance is no longer needed to save on costs. Combining storage auto-scale with FSLogix optimization scripted action provides best possible performance at the lowest cost, making WVD even more affordable. Demo
GitHub integration – synchronize scripted actions with Public and/or Private GitHub repositories. Use your favorite tools, like Visual Studio Code, to edit and maintain scripted actions with all of the power of GitHub workflows, versioning, and so much more. Scripted actions are automatically synchronized with GitHub repositories and any changes take effect immediately without any configuration changes made in Nerdio Manager. All pre-built Nerdio scripted actions are migrated to public GitHub repository. Demo
Azure Cloud Shell installation and update – deploy and/or update Nerdio Manager using Azure Cloud Shell with an auto-generated Powershell script. No need to disable MFA, download scripts, or fight with local Powershell modules. Demo
Advanced installation options - ability to install Nerdio Manager for WVD without Azure AD Global Administrator rights by using a pre-configured app registration. Also install several Nerdio Manager instances into the same Azure AD tenant with unique app registrations. Demo
Start VM on connect (preview) integration – check a box on host pool WVD properties page to automatically enable Microsoft’s newly released “Start VM on connect” feature on personal desktop host pools with direct user assignment. Demo
Global encrypted variables for Scripted actions – Define global variables that can be used by any scripted action. Variables are encrypted and stored securely in Azure Key Vault. Demo
Spot VMs (scripted action) – save up to 90% on Azure VM compute costs while testing a WVD deployment by creating session hosts as Spot VMs. Not to be used in production scenarios as VMs can be unexpectedly “evicted”. Easily convert VMs from spot to pay-as-you-go and back to spot VMs with this scripted action. Demo
Microsoft Edge optimizations (scripted action) – apply Microsoft recommended WVD optimizations to Edge browser on your image or session hosts with this scripted action. Demo
Automated Nerdio Manager backup (scripted action) – use this Azure runbook scripted action to back up Nerdio Manager app service, SQL database and key vault contents and store the backups in an Azure storage account. Can be launched on-demand or on a schedule. Demo
FSLogix storage capacity optimization (scripted action) – this scripted action, based on Jim Moyle’s FSLogix shrink script, can be used to reduce the white space inside of FSLogix VHD(X) containers and dramatically reduce storage costs. Combined with storage auto-scaling, it provides a big reduction in the Azure cost of FSLogix storage while maintaining high performance. Demo
Detect stale FSLogix file handles (scripted action) - crashed hosts can leave FSLogix VHD(X) container files locked on Azure Files shares. This scripted action can detect any VHD(X) file locks that don't have a corresponding WVD session. Demo
WVD deployment template (scripted action) – create a complete WVD deployment using this deployment template that runs as a scripted action. Customize the template as needed and leverage the power of Nerdio Manager’s REST API to stand up a WVD environment in minutes. Demo
Auto-scale enhancement - Specify a delay to prevent pre-staged hosts from being scaled in after the start of work hours even if they are unused. Demo
New API calls
1. Link and unlink resources groups Demo
Updated version of Sepago Azure Monitor agent and WVD Insights dashboard – Sepago agent has been updated to v259 and includes GPU integration and metrics.
Reseller billing via Azure Marketplace – Nerdio Manager resellers can now purchase the license for their customers via Azure Marketplace using their own CSP subscription.
UI Enhancements
1. Customizable color themes Demo
2. Filtering on host pools and session hosts pages Demo
3. New STORAGE menu for managing Azure Files and Azure NetApp Files Demo
4. Edit Desktop Image scheduled "set as image" scripted actions without deleting the schedule Demo
5. WVD agent version indicator on session hosts pages Demo
6. Color-coding of task status icon Demo
7. Floating Save & Save & close buttons on long auto-scale config pages Demo
8. Breadcrumbs improvements Demo
Bug fixes
1. Fixed UI issue with very long resource names not wrapping properly
2. Updated Azure Monitor Insights link to new GA link
3. Removed MSIX App Attach “Public Preview” verbiage now that the functionality is GA
4. Static, single-user pooled host pools that are converted to dynamic can now use the "Available (spare) desktops" auto-scale trigger

v2.9 (Released: Mar 27, 2021)

Multiple Azure Clouds – deploy and manage WVD environments that span across sovereign Azure Clouds. Cross-sovereign cloud support allows identity (e.g. users and groups) to be in one Azure Cloud, while session host VMs are in another Azure Cloud. Starting with support for Azure US Government and Azure Global (commercial), Nerdio Manager makes managing WVD deployments where identity is in GCC and VMs are in Azure US Gov (or vice versa) seamless. Demo
Desktop image staging - modify and update production images and test them without affecting current production host pools that use these images. When updating an image, select for the new version to be created in "staged" mode. Designated test host pools can start using and testing this image right away, but production host pools will only begin using it when it is activated after testing and validation. The end-to-end process of image update, user acceptance testing, and deployment into production can be fully automated. Demo
Start pooled desktops on demand - end users can now start a session host in a host pool when all hosts are stopped using the self-service portal. Demo
Cost optimization for session host OS disks - define "running" OS disk storage type (e.g. Premium or Standard SSD) and "stopped" OS disk storage type (e.g. Standard HDD). Auto-scale will change the OS disk to cheaper storage when it stopped and automatically change it to a more performance storage type when the VM is started. This results in up to 75% in OS disk storage savings when the VM is not running. Demo
Run once and schedules for Azure runbooks scripted actions - Azure runbooks can now be triggered on demand (run once) or set to run on a schedule independent of a VM-specific trigger. Additionally, Azure runbooks can be triggered on session host VM start, stop, create delete or desktop image capture. Demo
New VM events to trigger scripted action execution - Scripted actions can be attached to host pool VM events: VM start, VM stop, VM create, and VM delete. For example: AntiVirus agent can be installed and registered on VM create and un-registered on VM delete or a monitoring agent can be installed on VM start and removed on VM stop. Demo
Multiple MSIX packages per image creation - upload multiple MSIX apps to be packaged together in a single VHDX image. Combining multiple apps in a single image reduces the number of VHDX files mounted on each session host VM and improves performance. Demo
New REST API requests Demo
1. Assign and un-assign users/groups to host pools and app groups
2. Add new workspace
3. List all managed Workspaces
4. Add new static host pool
5. Convert static to dynamic host pool
6. Configure auto-scale on dynamic host pool
7. Add new scripted action
New integrations Demo
1. Sophos endpoint protection agent install and register when session host is created
2. Sophos endpoint protection agent un-register when session host is deleted
New scripted actions
1. Delay putting newly created hosts into production for some time to allow all installation processes to complete Demo
2. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC with Chocolatey Demo
3. Install Google Chrome with Chocolatey Demo
4. Install Mozilla Firefox with Chocolatey Demo
5. Install Microsoft Edge with Chocolatey Demo
6. Install 7Zip with Chocolatey Demo
7. Install Notepad++ with Chocolatey Demo
Run scripted actions on Desktop Images - trigger a scripted action to run on a Desktop Image VM on-demand from the action menu. For example, install software or language packs. Demo
Trusted launch capable Gen2 multi-session (EVD) Windows 10 images - added support for Gen2 EVD images that support Trusted launch.
Minor enhancements and bug fixes
1. Pass $SubscriptionName in addition to $SubscriptionID to scripted actions Demo
2. Converted all free text Powershell scripts attached to host pools and images to Windows scripted actions and stored them in library Demo
3. Select a different host VM to power on when the first selected one fails to scale out (e.g. Availability zone capacity limits)
4. Validate app permissions when enabling email notifications
5. Client IP information found in task logs can be pulled from XFF header using IpTracking:Header advanced configuration option
6. Fixed issue with joining Azure Files storage accounts to AD with Advanced settings options collapsed
7. Optimized Users, Hosts and Application monitoring dashboards for better performance
8. Updated WVD Azure Monitor insight configuration based on latest guidance from Microsoft to reduce data ingestion by over 80% and save on Azure Log Analytics Workspace costs
9. Searching and filtering enhancements on Scripted actions page
10. Extended notification emails to optionally include tasks details in the body and JSON file as attachment

v2.8 (Released: Feb 17, 2021)

Native WVD MSIX App Attach integration – leverage native WVD MSIX App Attach integrations via the WVD agent. Assign MSIX packages to host pools from Nerdio Manager image library or use existing images storage on any SMB storage including Azure NetApp Files and file servers. Demo
MSIX App Attach images library with versioning – Upload and manage MSIX App Attach images to an Azure Files share. Update images to new versions and automatically apply to all host pools with existing assignments. Leverage images with multiple MSIX packages inside for more efficient app delivery. Demo
Upload and manage MSIX images in CIM format – upload and manage MSIX images in read-only CIM format, which reduces IO required to deliver the application. Uploading native MSIX, VHD, VHDX and CIM formats is supported. Demo
Self-signed MSIX certificates management – upload and manage a library of self-signed or CA-issued certs that were used to package apps in MSIX format. These certificates can be automatically installed on desktop images or session hosts during provisioning. Demo
Azure Monitor for WVD integration – automatically enables and configures WVD integration with Azure monitor. Zero configuration required. Azure Monitor Insights for WVD can be used instead of or in conjunction with Sepago Monitor. Demo
Alerting and notifications – define rules to generate email alerts based on various conditions and actions. Select whom to notify based on tasks, statuses, resources, etc. Demo
Join AD automatically when creating Azure Files shares – when creating new or managing existing Azure Files shares, join the storage account that contains the share to Active Directory or Azure AD DS. Done automatically by creating a temporary VM and using stored AD credentials to create a computer object in selected OU. Demo
Link existing Azure Files shares and Azure NetApp Files volumes – link existing Azure Files shares and Azure NetApp Files volumes to Nerdio Manager environment. Once linked, Azure Files shares can be managed in NMW and joined to AD. Demo
Manage permissions and quota on existing Azure Files shares – adjust provisioned quota and SMB file share permissions on existing Azure Files shares. Demo
Synchronize permissions on Azure Files shares with host pools – select which WVD host pools are using a specific Azure Files share, File Storage SMB Contributor permissions are automatically added to the share based on the users and groups that have access to the host pools. Demo
SMB Multichannel – enable SMB Multichannel on new or existing Azure Files storage account. Azure Files SMB Multichannel enables clients to use multiple network connections that provide increased performance. Increased performance is achieved through bandwidth aggregation over multiple NICs and utilizing Receive Side Scaling (RSS) support for NICs to distribute the IO load across multiple CPUs. Demo
New Scripted Actions type: Azure runbooks – in addition to running Powershell scripts inside of Windows OS, Azure scripts add the ability to run Powershell scripts directly in Azure outside of a particular VM. This is accomplished with Azure Automation Runbooks and can leverage both AzureRM and Az Powershell modules. Several example scripts are included. Demo
1. OS disk encryption – enable OS disk encryption on session host VMs as they are being created.
2. Install Windows Antimalware – install Windows Antimalware client via Azure extension on session host VMs as they are being created.
3. Add public IP address – create a new static IP address for each newly created session host VM.
New Windows scripted actions
1. Add user as local administrator to personal desktop – Windows scripted action to assign desktop user as local administrator on a personal desktop. Demo
2. Windows 10 updates - new scripted action to install the latest Windows 10 updates. Demo
New WVD metadata locations - North Europe and West Europe Azure geographies added to Add workspace page. Demo
FSLogix version 2009 HF_01 - Updated to the latest FSLogix Apps release per Microsoft guidance.

Bug fixes:

1. 1. Resolved issue with WVD Admins being unable to create or assign new WVD workspaces if role assignment was done by AAD group
  2. Resolved issue with conflict between session host VM create and re-image jobs running at the same time
  3. Resolved issue with long Azure AD cache updates (longer than 60 minutes) in tenants with more than a million user objects

v2.7 (Released: Dec 29, 2020)

Geographic distribution of Desktop Imagesvia Shared Image Gallery - distribute desktop images to multiple Azure regions by selecting the locations where the images should be available. Can be enabled on new or existing images. A single desktop image VM can now be used to update WVD session hosts in all locations. Demo
Scripted actions - create PowerShell scripts and store them in a library. These custom scripts can be applied at various times: host creation, host deletion, desktop image creation, desktop image update, etc. Scripted actions can be used to install software, apply custom settings, download updates, and much more. Several useful scripts and examples are provided as part of this release. Demo
1. Install latest version of Microsoft Teams and enable audio/video optimization for WVD
2. Install latest version of Microsoft 365 Office Apps and turn off updates
3. Install Zoom VDI client for WVD
4. Apply Virtual Desktop Optimizations (customizable)
5. Enable RDP Shortpath
6. Enable WVD screen capture protection
MSIX package creation - Upload native MSIX installer files and let Nerdio Manager automatically expand them into a VHDX container, capture all needed metadata, and make the app available for host pool attachment. Demo
Pass credentials to scripted actions and Powershell scripts - enable secure passing of AD credentials stored in Azure Key Vault to Powershell scripts or scripted actions to avoid specifying sensitive information in the script in clear text. Useful when connecting to a network resource (e.g. file share) as part of the script since it runs in LocalSystem context, by default. Demo
Desktop Image change log - before "sealing" the image (i.e. running "set as image" task) document any changes that were made. A report can be generated to show these changes and who made them. Demo
Desktop Image refresh from Azure Marketplace - schedule a regular refresh of a desktop image from Azure Marketplace using the latest patched version. Customize the image with scripted actions and have it automatically deployed to host pools for full end-to-end update automation. Demo
REST API Swagger documentation - Swagger documentation with inline API testing is built right into the product. Explore available API calls, payload formats, and test API calls from Swagger. Demo
Throttle concurrent VM creation - control the number of concurrent Add host tasks to avoid running into Azure API rate limits and minimize errors and retries. Demo
Customize Resume/Cleanup frequency of automated tasks - Nerdio Manager automatically resumes failed tasks and after subsequent failures automatically cleans up by rolling back any changes made. This new setting allows admins to specify how many times a failed task should be retried and how many times a cleanup should be attempted. Demo
Auto-heal detection of stale heartbeats - under some conditions, session hosts will report "Available" WVD agent status but will not accept new connections. New auto-heal condition has been added - "Stale heartbeat (>2hr)". When last heartbeat is older than 2 hours auto-heal will restart (or rebuild) the host automatically. Demo
Retain desktop image on update - save a copy of desktop image objects when it is updated. Revert back to the saved backup if there are issues with the applied updates.
RDP Shortpath - enable RDP Shortpath with a pre-defined scripted action available from the Nerdio-provided library. This is a feature of Windows Virtual Desktop that establishes a direct UDP-based transport between Remote Desktop Client and Session host. RDP uses this transport to deliver Remote Desktop and RemoteApp while offering better reliability and consistent latency. Demo
WVD screen capture protection - Enable WVD screen capture protection with a pre-defined scripted action available from the Nerdio-provided library. This feature prevents sensitive information from being captured on the client end-points. When enabled, remoted content will be automatically blocked/hidden in screenshots, screen shares and also from malicious software that may be continuously capturing the screen content. Demo

Release bug fixes and enhancements

1. 1. Fixed issue with UI error when specifying custom AD profile on host pool properties
  2. Fixed issue with REST API enabling process when the Azure AD tenant has a large number of existing App registrations
  3. Azure AD groups can now be assigned WVD Admin role
  4. Added ability to specify a custom Azure NetApp Files account name during creation
  5. Added optimizations to Azure Files join to AD script
  6. Added ability to manually refresh cached Azure VM and disk sizes
  7. Added singlemoninwindowedmode RDP custom property

2.7.2 bug fixes and enhancements

1. 1. "Retain desktop image on update" now works for both scheduled and on-demand tasks. Previously, it would be effective only with scheduled "set as image" operations.
  2. Gen2 Azure VMs are now supported in Shared Image Gallery.
  3. When creating Shared Image Gallery via Nerdio Manager "set as image" operation, the SIG resource is now created in the resource group that contains the Desktop Image VM and image objects. Previously, it was created in the Nerdio Manager app's resource group.
  4. Fixed a rare auto-scale situation where session hosts placed manually into drain mode were being counted towards available sessions when using session-base scale out algorithms.
  5. Fixed issue with Microsoft Teams installation Scripted Action related to VDI environment validation.
  6. Fixed typo in WVD Screen Capture protection Scripted Action.

v2.6.0 (Released: Nov 23, 2020)

REST API - Leverage the power of Nerdio Manager automation by integrating with existing ITSM platforms (e.g. ServiceNow). Add and re-image hosts, create or update desktop images, control user sessions and much more. Demo1 (Enable), Demo2 (Use)
Host pool cloning - Create a copy of a host pool with all of its settings: auto-scale config, app groups and RemoteApps, MSIX AppAttach, user/group assignments, VM deployment settings, etc. Save time by creating host pool "templates" that can be cloned to any Workspace, Azure region or subscription instead of starting from scratch. Demo
File handle management on Azure Files - View a list of open file handles on Azure Files shares. See which host is locking a user's FSLogix profile VHD or MSIX AppAttach package. Select one or more open file handles and release them. Demo
Bulk host pool actions - Perform any action on all hosts in a host pool with user notification and while controlling the concurrency of the operation. Demo
1. Run any Powershell command on all hosts in a host pool Demo
2. Add any number of hosts to a host pool
3. Re-image all hosts in a host pool
4. Resize all host VMs and OS disks
5. Delete all hosts
6. Restart all hosts
7. Power on all hosts
8. Power off all hosts
9. Set drain mode on all hosts
10. Log off all user sessions in a host pool
11. Disconnect all user sessions in a host pool
12. Send message to all users logged into a host pool
Schedule bulk host pool actions - create an automated schedule for host pool actions. Restart, power on/off, or run Powershell script on all hosts once or on a recurring schedule (e.g. nightly).
Run Powershell during host scale in - Execute any Powershell commands when a session host VM is being scaled in: stopped and/or removed. Clean up any VM registrations with external management systems before the host is deleted. Demo
Run Powershell on desktop images - Execute any Powershell commands when creating or updating a desktop image. Install applications or apply any customizations to the desktop images before they are "sealed" and used for deployment. Demo
Deallocate stopped VMs - Hosts shut down from inside Windows are in stopped, but not deallocated, state and are generating Azure compute costs. Nerdio Manager can automatically detect VMs in this state and deallocate them proactively. Demo
Apply host pool changes without re-imaging - changes to FSLogix, Sepago, user session time limits and AppAttach settings can now be applied to live hosts without the need to re-image. Demo
Anonymous health check probe - get status of Nerdio Manager, SQL DB, Azure and WVD access via an unauthenticated URL. Can be used by monitoring tools to check environment health. (https://nwm-app-XXXXXXXXXXX.azurewebsites.net/public/health/status)
App Service WebJob monitoring - continuously monitor and auto-restart Azure App Service WebJob to ensure maximum app resiliency. Demo
Auto-scale enhancements
1. Auto-heal now has an option to fix broken hosts even if they show "active" user sessions. Demo
2. Auto-scale can be globally disabled/enabled for all host pools
Windows 10 version 20H2 - Added Windows 10 version 20H2 to Marketplace images lists.
FSLogix version 2009 - FSLogix apps installer is updated to latest GA version 2009.
Custom RDP properties - added USBDeviceStoreDirect and KeyboardHook

Bug fixes

1. 1. Fixed issue with active/disconnected session count when filtering by host name on the User session page
  2. Fixed issue with display of more than 25 RemoteApps on Manage RemoteApps page
  3. Added password confirmation field when specifying a local admin password
  4. Ignore, and do not fail, Azure tag updates on host pools when Azure location restriction policy applies
  5. On task restart, skip AD domain un-join if first attempt failed

v2.5.0 (released: Oct 21, 2020)

1. 1. Automated image updates and host pool re-imaging - Schedule a recurring update to Desktop Images and automatically re-image host pools on a pre-defined schedule. System and application updates can be automatically applied after hours without manual intervention. Demo1 Demo2
  2. WVD Classic (Fall 2019) to ARM (Spring 2020) migration - move existing host pools from Fall 2019 object model to Spring 2020 (ARM) object model. Choose to whether to move or copy user assignments. Existing session hosts are automatically migrated or new ones can be created in the ARM host pool. Demo
  3. Availability Zones - protect against data center failure by automatically distributing session host VMs across Availability Zones (data centers) in supported Azure regions. Demo
  4. Multi-AD configuration profiles - create multiple Active Directory profiles with different credentials, AD domain and/or OU paths then apply these saved profiles to host pools and desktop images. Demo
  5. Community Edition - free version of Nerdio Manager for WVD for use in personal lab environments. More info
  6. GPU drivers - when creating session hosts using NV-series VMs NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers are automatically installed. Demo
  7. Session shadowing/control by non-admin users - enable selected non-administrator users or security groups to allow user session shadowing or control within a host pool. By default, shadowing is only available to local administrators and this functionality allows any selected group of users to shadow other with consent. Demo
  8. Log capture and download - request relevant system logs from VMs within the Nerdio Manager UI without logging into the VM directly. Relevant logs are packaged and provided for download to speed up and simplify troubleshooting. Demo
  9. Retain image object when deleting desktop image VM - when deleting a desktop image VM the associated image object can be retained for future use. Demo
  10. Auto-scale enhancements
    1. Personal desktops powered on by the user will not be powered off for a period of 1 hour
    2. Personal desktops that do not have users assigned will not be automatically powered on
  11. UI enhancements
    1. AppAttach upload - upload multiple AppAttach package at the same time and track status in a footer panel.
    2. Costs for v4 VM sizes - costs and savings information now includes new v4 VM instances.

Bug fixes

1. 1. Scalability improvements for very large environments with thousands of session host VMs. Azure requests can now be split in chunks based on configuration.
  2. Auto-select the correct OS disk size when re-imaging a static host pool that was converted to dynamic.
  3. Pause re-image process when "Power off & set as image" is running.

v2.4.0 (released: Sep 21, 2020)

1. 1. MSIX AppAttach - Upload and publish AppAttach VHD(X) packages directly from Nerdio Manager. Leverage Azure Files with AD integration for App package storage, assign users and groups to individual apps, and assign apps to host pools. Users assigned to apps who log into these host pools receive the app automatically. Demo 1, Demo 2, Demo 3, Demo 4, MSIX App Attach.
  2. Azure Government - Nerdio Manager for WVD is now available in Azure Government Marketplace and can be used to deploy, manage and auto-scale WVD environments for US government customers.
  3. Multiple app groups - create and manage multiple desktop and RemoteApp app groups. A single host pool can now support a combination of session desktops and multiple RemoteApp app groups. Demo
  4. Virtual desktop optimization tool - automatically run Microsoft's Windows 10 1909 and 2004 virtual desktop optimization tool on session host VMs as they are deployed. This results in drastically improved performance and increased user-per-CPU density. Demo
  5. User session time limits - apply user session time limits at host pool level. Automatically log off disconnected sessions, limit the duration of idle sessions, control empty RemoteApp session behavior and more. Demo
  6. Post-deployment Powershell script and optimizations - execute Powershell commands on session host VMs after they are deployed. Environment variables such as host pool name, subscription ID, resource group, etc. are passed to the Powershell script and the VM can perform any customizations immediately post deployment. Also, set VM time zone and time zone redirection for WVD clients. Demo
  7. Accelerated Networking - Azure VM accelerated networking is now enabled by default on all VMs that support it. This greatly increases network performance of large session host VMs. Demo
  8. Availability sets - Azure availability sets of variable size can be optionally enabled. When enabled, session host VMs are automatically placed in availability sets when deployed. Demo
  9. Applications usage dashboard - New applications dashboard displays all apps used on each host pool including per-application CPU, RAM and disk utilization. Application utilization can be displayed by user to analyze individual users' productivity. Demo
  10. Az version of deployment script - Nerdio Manager can now be deployed via Azure Automation or two versions of Powershell script: AzureRM-based and new Az-based version.
  11. Auto-scale enhancements
    1. Restrict individual session host scale in - exclude one or more session host VMs from after hours scale in operations until a specified date/time or indefinitely. Useful in cases when long-running tasks on session hosts cannot be interrupted for some time. Demo
    2. "Never" option for dynamic personal desktops - it is now possible to set personal desktops to power ON and/or OFF at the beginning/end of work hours: Never, Once, or Continuously. Demo
    3. Spare pooled single-user desktop capacity outside of work hours - single-user pooled desktops now have two "spare" capacity buffer settings: during work hours and outside of work hours. Demo
  12. UI Enhancements
    1. Host pool action menu - the drop down action menu for host pool management has been redesigned
    2. Host pool desktop experience - desktop experience (i.e. types of host pools) have been renamed to
      1. Multi user desktop
      2. Multi user RemoteApp
      3. Single user desktop (pooled)
      4. Single user desktop (personal)
    3. Update notification icon - a new icon will appear next to the UPDATES menu when a new version of Nerdio Manager is available

Bug fixes

1. 1. Optimizations in Azure AD user and group caching for very large environments (1m+ objects)
  2. Warning when "Backup Reader" role is not set on Azure subscription and attempting to backup a desktop image

v2.3.0 (released: Aug 13, 2020)

1. 1. Split Azure AD tenant and multi-AAD tenant - split the WVD deployment between an "identity" Azure AD tenant (where user info resides) and multiple "session host VM" Azure AD tenants where the compute and storage infrastructure for VMs is deployed. One identity AAD tenant can have one or more VM AAD tenants with multiple Azure subscriptions linked to it. Demo
  2. Auto-heal broken session hosts - auto-scale can automatically detect broken WVD session hosts and attempt to repair them by either restarting or deleting and re-creating the VMs without user intervention. Demo
  3. Desktop Image versioning - leverage native Azure backup to create versions of desktop images before making changes and easily revert to prior versions. Take a backup of an image while powering it on to modify or manually trigger a backup at any time. Demo
  4. Desktop Image optimizations - optimize images when they are created by applying settings such as time zone redirection and setting VM timezone. Automatically clean up previous WVD agent or FSLogix installs if importing the image from a session host VM. Demo
  5. Clone Desktop Image to another region - clone an existing desktop image to a remote Azure region by selecting its destination network. Same image can be cloned into multiple regions and used for session host deployment or re-imaging in those regions. Demo
  6. Static to Dynamic host pool conversion - automatically convert an existing host pool to a dynamic one and enable auto-scale without the need to recreate the host pool or redeploy session hosts. Demo
  7. User sessions dashboard enhancements - see User Input Delay and Logon Duration information for host pools and individual users. Demo
  8. New Session hosts dashboard - visualize the utilization and performance of session hosts across many dimensions such as CPU, RAM, disk, latency, user input delay, logon duration, bandwidth, egress transfer, and more. Demo
  9. Updated Sepago Azure monitor agent - new version (v25) that support user input delay and logon duration reporting. TLS1.2 support.
  10. UI Enhancements
    1. Select from multiple Windows 10 versions including 1909 and 2004. Demo
    2. Split SETTING page into three logically grouped sub-pages
    3. Export usage summary option to see highest named, concurrent and monthly active users by month. Demo
    4. References to WVD ARM object model are now GA and non-ARM is called Classic

Bug fixes

1. 1. Number of items per page settings are now retained when switching between host pools
  2. Prevent creation of Gen2 VMs using VM sizes that don't support Gen2

v2.2.0(released Jul 22, 2020)

New features

1. 1. Dynamic personal host pools - auto-scale personal/persistent desktops based on pre-set working hours. Power off desktop VMs automatically at the end of the day and power them back on the following morning. Users can power on/off their own desktop VMs with the End-user RBAC role. Demo
  2. Shared Image Gallery (SIG) - quickly create NMW managed Desktop Images from existing Shared Image Gallery (SIG) image versions without creating a VM first. Deploy or re-image session hosts directly from SIG images without the need to create a NMW managed Desktop Image first. Demo
  3. Custom Azure images - quickly create NMW managed Desktop Images from existing Azure customer images without creating a VM first. Deploy or re-image session hosts directly from custom Azure managed images without the need to create a NMW managed Desktop Image first. Demo
  4. RBAC role assignment by AAD group - assign both Azure AD groups and individual users to Workspaces with pre-defined NMW RBAC roles. Demo
  5. Per host pool costs and savings - see compute and storage costs and savings as a result of auto-scale over the past month for each host pool. Demo
  6. Per workspace and tenant costs and savings - see per named/active/concurrent user costs and auto-scale savings over the past month for each workspace and WVD tenant. Demo
  7. UI Enhancements
    1. Updates page shows who installed the last update and when
    2. Date range selector on usage export screen
    3. Show powered ON and total hosts per host pool in list

Bug fixes

1. 1. Desktop Image descriptions containing "/" no longer causes an error
  2. Tenant/Workspace usage report formatting and column names updated
  3. Being explicitly added as an Owner to resource group used for Log Analytics is no longer required and owner permission inheritance from subscription is sufficient
  4. CPU and session data is now collected and stored for dynamic host pools by default

v2.1.0 (released: Jul 2, 2020)

New features

1. 1. Multiple Azure subscriptions - single install of Nerdio Manager for WVD can now manage WVD resources in multiple Azure subscriptions. Demo
  2. Ephemeral OS disks - save on OS disk storage costs and increase performance with Ephemeral OS disks that can be used for WVD session host VMs. Demo
  3. Gen2 VM support - create Desktop Images and session host VMs using Gen2 architecture. Demo
  4. New User Sessions report - Real-time and historic view of user sessions statistics and individual user sessions and connections. Demo
  5. Monthly Active Users (MAU) tracking - in addition to named and concurrent users, you can now see Monthly Active Users over the past month. Demo
  6. Usage history export - download up to 6 months of raw usage data per Workspace and WVD Tenant.
  7. UI Enhancements
    1. Deep links to Azure objects throughout the product. Demo
    2. User sessions page enhancements

Bug fixes

1. 1. Very long host pool names now wrap properly on the screen
  2. Desktop Admin role Azure actions now run the API context of App

v2.0.1 (released: Jun 17, 2020)

New features

1. 1. Auto-scale savings history - view and analyze storage and compute savings produced by auto-scale engine relative to peak capacity. Savings can be viewed on a per host pool basis for any selected time range. Visible on the auto-scale history screen. Demo
  2. Azure Files deployment - automated creation of new Azure Files share (both premium and standard) with AD integration to store FSLogix profile containers. Demo
  3. Scale in aggressiveness - control whether hosts with active or disconnected user sessions can be scaled in after business hours. Demo
  4. Scale in to 0 active hosts - ability to have no running hosts after business hours and have pre-stage capacity bring hosts up the following morning. Demo
  5. Custom Azure tags - pre-configure custom Azure tags for all Azure resources associated with each host pool. Tags can be used for charge-back and cost allocation. Demo
  6. VM name re-use control - Added ability to turn off VM name re-use during automatic scale in and out operations. Demo
  7. UI Enhancements
    1. Split up Dynamic and Static host pools onto separate pages
    2. Added pagination and quick search to all screens with long lists of items
    3. Un-assign Workspaces to hide them from view for certain users Demo
    4. Default Desktop Image VM size is selected to be D2s_v3 instead of DS1_v2
    5. Graphical display of past 30 days of usage on WORKSPACES and WVD TENANTS screen after clicking on the values Demo

Bug fixes

1. 1. Auto-scale now allows for pre-staging host capacity to include both turning on base capacity VMs AND creating new burst capacity VMs.
  2. Deleting desktop images that are not joined to the domain no longer tries to automatically disjoin from AD.
  3. Hosts manually placed into drain mode in auto-scale enabled dynamic pools will get lowest priority when scale out process needs to activate a host.
  4. Can now change session limit setting from Manage auto-scale screen when auto-scaling is turned off.

v2.0.0 (released: Jun 1, 2020)

NOTE: Global Administrator role required to enable ARM WVD Object Model

New features

1. 1. Spring 2020 Update (ARM) object model support - enable management of WVD ARM object model. Use ARM only, non-ARM only or hybrid mode. Demo
  2. Sepago Azure Monitoring integration - deploy Azure Log Analytics and Sepago session host VM agent to collect data. Configure custom Log Analytics workbooks and link them directly to Nerdio Manager for WVD navigation menu.
  3. Dynamic host pool cost estimation - view real-time minimum and maximum storage and compute costs of a selected dynamic host pool configuration based on selected region, VM size, OS disk and host pool capacity. Demo
  4. Licensing model selection - ability to select Named user or Concurrent user licensing model on SETTINGS page. Demo
  5. UI Enhancements
    1. Counts of Active and Disconnected sessions are displayed on User sessions screen
    2. When restarting a host, allow control of logging off users are forcing VM to restart without logging off users first

Bug fixes

1. 1. Display user sessions for those users who do not have a UPN being recognized by WVD management service.
  2. Added Sunday-Thursday work week selection to Pre-stage host capacity configuration setting.
  3. Microsoft.NetApp resource provider error no longer comes up on SETTINGS page when this provider isn't registered in the subscription.

v1.2.4 (released: Apr 28, 2020)

1. 1. Role-based access control.
  2. Azure NetApp Files deployment integration. Demo

v1.2.3

1. 1. 64GB OS disk support
  2. WVD API limit mitigation
  3. Azure AD cache filtering
  4. Bulk host association

v1.2.2

1. 1. Win7 support
  2. Desktop Image cloning
  3. Auto-scale history visualization
  4. Export task logs

v1.2.1

1. 1. Support for multiple networks (VNets), Regions and Resource Groups
  2. AD cache optimizations
  3. Ability to specify local admin credentials for newly created Hosts and Desktop Images

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Kevin Murray

April 08, 2025 17:07

Exciting news from Day One of NerdioCon — we’ve officially launched Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0! https://nmehelp.getnerdio.com/hc/en-us/articles/19837802929677-Release-Notes

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