RemoteApps and OneDrive with Azure Virtual Desktop
Hello everyone!
Working with OneDrive gives users the flexibility to access data on every device. Working with a full desktop in AVD gives you all the possibilities with OneDrive, but for RemoteApps its a bit different. There is no explorer visible and options to start OneDrive. Microsoft has now launched the option to start Onedrive with the RemoteApp in Azure Virtual Desktop. This really changes the the usage of RemoteApps. Lets start configuring OneDrive for RemoteApps on Azure Virtual Desktop!
Prerequisites
- Subscription needed for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Contributer or Owner rights on the subscription (less rights is also possible, but will take more time to setup)
- Pooled Azure Virtual Desktop Hostpool (Validation environment is advised)
- Windows 11 Insider Preview Enterprise multi-session, version 22H2, build 25905 or later
- Hybrid Entra ID joined or Enter ID joined with Intune enrollment
- Latest version of FSLogix installed
- Intune license (because this post uses the Settings Catalog)
- OneDrive license (Microsoft 365 E3 or any license that has OneDrive included)
- Silent account configuration setup
Setting up OneDrive for silent login
First we start with the configuration of a settings catalog profile in Microsoft Intune.
- Go to the Microsoft Intune admin center
- Click on Devices – Windows – Configuration Policies
- Click on Create – New Policy
- Select platform – Windows 10 and later
- Select profile type – Settings catalog
- Click on create
- Give your profile a name
- When you click on Next you can search within the Settings picker
- Search for “silent’ and click on OneDrive
- Now you can click on “Silently sign in users to OneDrive sync app with their Windows credentials”
- Click on Next and assign the proper group for the AVD session hosts
