Microsoft announced that Remote Desktop app would transition to Windows App so we’ve been testing it out and are looking for a place to offer feedback on Windows App.  Have submitted Feedback via the Feedback option but no idea if others are experience similar or if certain changes are being considered, so starting this discussion to see if other AVD users have been trying the Windows App and how their experience has been?  Some of the things we have observed is launching/starting a connection to a remote app or desktop is much, much slower via the Windows App vs. the Remote Desktop app.  After connected, it seems to be ok, but when launching it is painfully slow most of the time.  Also, we work from multiple workspaces with some users having a large number of apps assigned to them, you can no longer hover over an icon for a remote app and see which workspace the session is from. (ex: if you work on a dev, pre-prod and prod environment, you can’t easily see which session is which from task bar now) 

Also, the size of the remote app ‘icons’ is huge – we would like to see an option to be able to size those down more like the sizes of the icons in Remote Desktop app.  Understand you can pin to the home page, but depending on how many remote apps are assigned and used regularly it can be lots of scrolling to find what you are looking for (have to use the search option often as there isn’t a sort by name option, or such) 

And from a security perspective, the way our conditional access rules are written, the new Windows App looks like a 365 app and we have quite strict rules for this.  We are hoping to see the new Windows App change how it is identifying to allow more control/flexibility with conditional access rules for the new app.  Will likely create a support ticket for this issue.  

Please share your experiences with the Windows App with your AVD usages.  

​Microsoft announced that Remote Desktop app would transition to Windows App so we’ve been testing it out and are looking for a place to offer feedback on Windows App.  Have submitted Feedback via the Feedback option but no idea if others are experience similar or if certain changes are being considered, so starting this discussion to see if other AVD users have been trying the Windows App and how their experience has been?  Some of the things we have observed is launching/starting a connection to a remote app or desktop is much, much slower via the Windows App vs. the Remote Desktop app.  After connected, it seems to be ok, but when launching it is painfully slow most of the time.  Also, we work from multiple workspaces with some users having a large number of apps assigned to them, you can no longer hover over an icon for a remote app and see which workspace the session is from. (ex: if you work on a dev, pre-prod and prod environment, you can’t easily see which session is which from task bar now)  Also, the size of the remote app ‘icons’ is huge – we would like to see an option to be able to size those down more like the sizes of the icons in Remote Desktop app.  Understand you can pin to the home page, but depending on how many remote apps are assigned and used regularly it can be lots of scrolling to find what you are looking for (have to use the search option often as there isn’t a sort by name option, or such)  And from a security perspective, the way our conditional access rules are written, the new Windows App looks like a 365 app and we have quite strict rules for this.  We are hoping to see the new Windows App change how it is identifying to allow more control/flexibility with conditional access rules for the new app.  Will likely create a support ticket for this issue.   Please share your experiences with the Windows App with your AVD usages.    Read More

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