What's new in the Azure Virtual Desktop Agent?

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The Azure Virtual Desktop agent links your session hosts with the Azure Virtual Desktop service. It acts as the intermediate communicator between the service and the virtual machines, enabling connectivity.

The Azure Virtual Desktop Agent is updated regularly. New versions of the Azure Virtual Desktop Agent are installed automatically. When new versions are released, they're rolled out progressively to session hosts. This process is called flighting and it enables Microsoft to monitor the rollout in validation environments first.

A rollout might take several weeks before the agent is available in all environments. Some agent versions might not reach nonvalidation environments, so you might see multiple versions of the agent deployed across your environments. The Azure Virtual Desktop Agent updates regularly. This article is where you'll find out about:

  • The latest updates
  • New features
  • Improvements to existing features
  • Bug fixes

Make sure to check back here often to keep up with new updates.

Latest available versions

Here's information about the Azure Virtual Desktop Agent.

Release Latest version
Production 1.0.9742.2500
Validation 1.0.9103.2900

Tip

The Azure Virtual Desktop Agent is automatically installed when adding session hosts in most scenarios. If you need to install the agent manually, you can download it at Register session hosts to a host pool, together with the steps to install it.

Version 1.0.9742.2500

Published: October 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed an issue relating to app attach expansion from the portal.
  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.9103.3800

Published: June 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.9103.3700

Published: June 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.9103.2900 (validation)

Published: June 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.9103.2300

Published: June 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.9103.1000

Published: May 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.8804.1400

Published: April 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed the logic to display deprecated client message.

  • Enable customers to change relative path while leaving image path the same.

  • Update app attach packages to fetch and store timestamp info from certificate.

Version 1.0.8431.2300

Published: April 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed an issue with App Attach diagnostics that caused the agent to always report timeout exceptions. Now the agent only reports timeout exceptions to diagnostics when app attach registration is unsuccessful.

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.8431.1500

Published: March 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.8297.800

Published: February 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.8297.400

Published: January 2024

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7909.2600

Published: December 2023

In this update, we've made the following changes:

  • Windows 7 session hosts no longer receive side-by-side stack updates.

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7909.1200

Published: November 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7755.1800

Published: November 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7755.1100

Published: September 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7539.8300

Published: September 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7539.5800

Published: September 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7255.1400

Published: August 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7255.800

Published: July 2023

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed an issue that would disable the Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN) health check when a user disabled the Unified Datagram Protocol (UDP).
  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7033.1401

Published: July 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6713.1603

Published: July 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Security improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.7033.900

Published: July 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6713.1300/1.0.6713.1600

Published: June 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6713.400

Published: May 2023

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed an issue that made the Remote Desktop Agent incorrectly report Hybrid Azure Active Directory (AD) Join virtual machines (VMs) as domain-joined.
  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6425.1200

Published: May 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6425.300

Published: April 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6298.2100

Published: March 2023

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Health check reliability improved.
  • Reliability issues in agent upgrade fixed.
  • VM will be marked unhealthy when health check detects a required URL isn't unblocked.

Version 1.0.6129.9100

Published: March 2023

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.6028.2200

Published: February 2023

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Domain Trust health check is now enabled. When virtual machines fail the Domain Trust health check, they're now given the Unavailable status.
  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.5739.9000/1.0.5739.9800

Published: January 2023

Note

You may see version 1.0.5739.9000 or 1.0.5739.9800 installed on session hosts depending on whether the host pool is configured to be a validation environment. Version 1.0.5739.9000 was released to validation environments and version 1.0.5739.9800 was released to all other environments.

Normally, all environments receive the same version. However, for this release, we had to adjust certain parameters unrelated to the Agent to allow this version to roll out to non-validation environments, which is why the non-validation version number is higher than the validation version number. Besides those changes, both versions are the same.

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Added the RDGateway URL to URL Access Check.
  • Introduced RD Agent provisioning state for new installations.
  • Fixed error reporting in MSIX App Attach for apps with expired signatures.

Version 1.0.5555.1010

Published: December 2022

This release didn't include any major changes to the agent.

Version 1.0.5555.1008

Published: November 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Increased sensitivity of AppAttachRegister monitor for improved results.
  • Fixed an error that slowed down Geneva Agent installation.
  • Version updates for Include Stack.
  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.5388.1701

Published: August 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Agent MSI from downloading on the first try.
  • Modified app attach on-demand registration.
  • Enhanced the AgentUpdateTelemetry parameter to help with StackFlighting data.
  • Removed unnecessary WebRTC health check.
  • Fixed an issue with the RDAgentMetadata parameter.

Version 1.0.5100.1100

Published: August 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Agent first-party extensions architecture completed.
  • Fixed Teams error related to Azure Virtual Desktop telemetry.
  • RDAgentBootloader - revision update to 1.0.4.0.
  • SessionHostHealthCheckReport is now centralized in a NuGet package to be shared with first-party Teams.
  • Fixes to AppAttach.

Version 1.0.4739.1000

Published: July 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Report session load to Log Analytics for admins to get information on when MaxSessionLimit is reached.
  • Adding AADTenant ID claim to the registration token.
  • Report closing errors to diagnostics explicitly.

Version 1.0.4574.1600

Published: June 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixed broker URL cache to address Agent Telemetry calls.
  • Fixed some network-related issues.
  • Created two new mechanisms to trigger health checks.
  • Other general bug fixes and agent upgrades.

Version 1.0.4230.1600

Published: March 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixes an issue with the agent health check result being empty for the first agent heart beat.
  • Added Azure VM ID to the WVDAgentHealthStatus Log Analytics table.
  • Updated the agent's update logic to install the Geneva Monitoring agent sooner.

Version 1.0.4119.1500

Published: February 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixes an issue with arithmetic overflow casting exceptions.
  • Updated the agent to now start the Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) when the agent starts.
  • Fixes an issue that caused Sandero name pipe service start ups to be slow when the VM has no registration information.
  • General bug fixes and agent improvements.

Version 1.0.4009.1500

Published: January 2022

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Added logging to better capture agent update telemetry.
  • Updated the agent's Azure Instance Metadata Service health check to be Azure Stack HCI-friendly.

Version 1.0.3855.1400

Published: December 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Fixes an issue that caused an unhandled exception.
  • This version now supports Azure Stack HCI by retrieving VM metadata from the Azure Arc service.
  • This version now allows built-in stacks to be automatically updated if its version number is beneath a certain threshold.
  • The UrlsAccessibleCheck health check now only gets the URL until the path delimiter to prevent 404 errors.

Version 1.0.3719.1700

Published: November 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Updated agent error messages.
  • Fixes an issue with the agent restarting every time the side-by-side stack was updated.
  • General agent improvements.

Version 1.0.3583.2600

Published: October 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Fixed an issue where upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 disabled the side-by-side stack.

Version 1.0.3373.2605

Published: September 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Fixed an issue with package deregistration getting stuck when using MSIX App Attach.

Version 1.0.3373.2600

Published: September 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • General agent improvements.
  • Fixes issues with restarting the agent on Windows 7 VMs.
  • Fixes an issue with fields in the WVDAgentHealthStatus table not showing up correctly.

Version 1.0.3130.2900

Published: July 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.
  • Fixes an issue with getting the host pool path for Intune registration.
  • Added logging to better diagnose agent issues.
  • Fixes an issue with orchestration timeouts.

Version 1.0.3050.2500

Published: July 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Updated internal monitors for agent health.
  • Updated retry logic for stack health.

Version 1.0.2990.1500

Published: April 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Updated agent error messages.
  • Added an exception that prevents you from installing non-Windows 7 agents on Windows 7 VMs.
  • Has updated heartbeat service logic.

Version 1.0.2944.1400

Published: April 2021

In this release, we've made the following changes:

  • Placed links to the Azure Virtual Desktop Agent troubleshooting guide in the event viewer logs for agent errors.
  • Added an additional exception for better error handling.
  • Added the WVDAgentUrlTool.exe that allows customers to check which required URLs they can access.

Version 1.0.2866.1500

Published: March 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Fixed an issue with the stack health check.

Version 1.0.2800.2802

Published: March 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.0.2800.2800

Published: March 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Fixed a reverse connection issue.

Version 1.0.2800.2700

Published: February 2021

In this release, we've made the following change:

  • Fixed an access denied orchestration issue.