What's new in the Azure Virtual Desktop Agent?
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 | 1.0.9103.3700 |
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 1.0.9103.3800
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.