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I am currently delivering an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) RemoteApp solution to B2B users from an external organization. Due to performance requirements, the application needs to scale horizontally across multiple AVD session hosts. As a result, all session hosts require access to the same shared file storage.

The primary requirement is that access to the shared files must be fast and have very low latency. Based on my research, Azure NetApp Files appears to be the ideal solution.

However, it seems that Azure NetApp Files currently supports SMB access only through Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Microsoft Entra Domain Services, or Microsoft Entra Kerberos. From what I understand, this does not appear to work with B2B guest users who sign in with identities from an external organization.

Is there a supported way to grant B2B guest users access to a shared Azure NetApp Files SMB share? I don't mind using Microsoft Entra Domain Services or an Entra-joined environment if that's required—I just want to know whether this scenario is supported and, if so, what the recommended architecture would be. Thanks!

I’m currently working on deploying a Windows OpenGL desktop application using AVD as the primary delivery method. The issue I’m running into is very poor performance, even on a high-spec NV instance NV36ads A10 v5 with a powerful GPU and 36 vCPUs.

I’ve tried several troubleshooting steps, but it seems that uninstalling or disabling the NVIDIA GPU makes little to no difference in overall performance. Is there any additional configuration required?

I’ve already enabled all relevant Group Policies for hardware acceleration and Remote Desktop session encoding, and the GPU driver appears to be properly installed and configured.

At this point, I’m not sure where else to look. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Here is a screen shot of the the system information during a remote desktop session:

https://imgur.com/a/vTbdFMo

Note: I have disabled the hyper-V driver to force the system to use the Nvidia GPU.

I am delivering an application through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to external users who have their own Microsoft Entra tenants. These users are working from their office machines and sign into Windows using their own Entra accounts.

After logging in, they launch our application using a link in the following format:

ms-avd:connect?workspaceId=<workspace-id>&resourceid=<resource-id>&username=<email>&version=0

The issue I’m facing is that, after a fresh Windows sign-in, launching the app via this URL causes Windows App to select the wrong tenant. As a result, the connection fails and the application does not launch.

This can be temporarily resolved by opening Windows App manually, signing out, clearing saved credentials, and then signing back in using our tenant. After that, the URL works correctly.

However, this process is cumbersome and must be repeated after every Windows sign-in. Are there any supported ways to force or reliably control the tenant selection for ms-avd:connect so that it consistently uses the correct Entra tenant?

Hello,

I recently configured an Azure Virtual Desktop host pool with a RemoteApp and assigned access to internal users through an Entra ID group. The setup appears to be working correctly for internal users.

However, when external B2B users are added to the same group, the RemoteApp does not appear for them.

The external users have already:

• Accepted their B2B invitations
• Appeared successfully in our Entra ID tenant as guest users
• Been added to the same group that grants access to the RemoteApp

Despite this, when the external users sign in to Windows App, they receive a message indicating that their account is a personal account and that they must be invited into an organization. As a result, the RemoteApp is not visible to them.

Could you please help determine:

• Whether additional configuration is required for B2B guest users to access Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps
• If there are specific licensing, tenant, or cross-tenant access settings that must be enabled
• Whether external users must sign in using a different account format or tenant context in Windows App

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

I understand that RemoteApps can be configured to launch with fixed command-line arguments. However, in our case, we need to pass dynamic or user-specific arguments at launch time, similar to what is possible with traditional RDP sessions.

Is this supported in Azure Virtual Desktop? Any guidance on whether this can be achieved would be greatly appreciated.