 Hi there, welcome to another edition of Tuesdays with Corey. I am here with the brain, the creator, the designer. I'd say I'm hurting all the brains. Hurting all the brains, got it. So Scott created the Windows Virtual Desktop platform on Azure. And this just went live, excuse me, preview. Preview in March. In March. How is it going so far? Well, we got a lot of positive reaction to the announcement in March about the service. And to date we have about 4,800 folks. 4,800? Yeah, it's been a great reception to it. We see about 50 new deployments daily on it, right? Yeah, that's awesome. Shows ramping. And you just announced, so Citrix, big partnership with Citrix here? Yeah, we announced that when we initially announced the service back in September. We announced that we had a partnership with Citrix. And then we had a partnership with Citrix. We did, so just in Delaware all the couple of weeks ago, we announced that we also now partnered with VMware. Wow. So Citrix and VMware can be value-added partners on top of the WBD platform, bringing their protocols and all of their innovation and tools to help people better manage. That's awesome. Really complex deployments. So I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. How rude of me. Continue. Yeah, that's good. We'll get back right back. So I was going to ask you, tell us a little bit about, I mean, I think maybe for people who don't know what this new acronym is, tell us a little bit about what Windows Virtual Desktop actually is and how customers can use it. Yeah, absolutely. So if you're familiar with any type of desktop virtualization solutions, it's been quite common that people are now starting to move some of their workloads up into the cloud and leveraging most traditionally app and desktop hosting. And in the past, those have been restricted to server-based computing where you take a Windows server and you install a desktop experience pack on it and maybe share it out to a number of users. Or the other path was you go down a Windows client-based model traditionally called VDI. Right. Now with the cloud, we're introducing a brand new scenario with Azure specifically where you can enable a Windows 10 multi-user scenario. Wow. So this is like a no-compromise experience. We had that difficult decision to want to provide a full-rich Windows experience. Right. VDI. Or do I want to get the flexibility and lower costs? Like the experience of sharing. Well, that's the platform itself is all PaaS-based. So in the past, if you wanted to build a deployment in the cloud, you'd have to go set up, you know, install a server on a VM and then still manage a patch on the Azure server. Probably Cloudy, is it? No, no, no. So WVD is based on... I mean, is Cloudy here? Well, we're in Seattle, so that's... It's a little bit... It's a little bit... Can you see the clouds? No, you don't need to show them. Go on, then. So, yeah, WVD is all a PaaS-based service and we continue to add new Azure services where you can leverage more and more paths. Like we're integrating in with Azure files now so there's no need to standard file servers in the traditional way. God. And we provide this flexibility of full app and desktop promoting using a full Windows 10 experience. Right. But we also support those traditional server-based workloads. Right. So we want to just simply lift and shift your existing server-based workload to the cloud and support those. So it ends up being, I mean, you're no compromise. It's like the best of all tools, what you're telling me. It's sort of like you've got that PaaS integration, that sort of PaaS experience, if you want to go full bore on sort of that no management aspect. But if you still have a bunch of these legacy applications that just have to run in that client environment, you can also support those. That's right. And we've done a bunch of work across, you know, the organizations including Office and Windows to really improve the experience. We're leaning into that, you know, Office running in a virtualized environment. Right. We're in the past, we kind of left it to customers' own devices to go figure out how to make it work. That's right. Even though it was all Microsoft stuff, right? Yeah, yeah, fine. And customers really expected that, you know, I bought these two products from Microsoft. They should really work well together. Of course. We spent the last couple of years really working closely with the Office team. And we made a ton of innovations to improve the experience. Right. And they're all near each other because they're all going to be running in the same data source, right? Right. That's a huge benefit there in terms of running your workloads in Azure. That's awesome. We're all, you know, the Office services are being closed as well. This is what that means near each other? Yes. Close. That's the universal. And integrated picture. We also announced an acquisition of a technology provider about November, December of this year that we acquired a company called FS Podger. And they bring a lot of innovation in terms of making the Office cash data kind of migrate with the user profile. Very cool. Yeah. And a traditional virtualization deployment, there's usually pools of machines, and you don't necessarily get assigned to the same machine each time. That's right. And so the data is not there for those, but so it's taking your first usage just super slow typically. That's right. Like Outlook, right? That's right. Outlook and now teams and things that tend to work best with the cash of user data. That's awesome. Now this stuff just mounts in. It's awesome. And it's also unlocked OneDrive support. Yeah. Now I can support OneDrive. It's just an across set. It's a machine as well. Yeah. So that's awesome. I mean, it seems like a really, really cool, exciting service. You know, one of the things that, at least my experiences with it has been the sort of creative getting started experience, right? Maybe it leaves a little bit to be desired, right? And so I hear, I hear rumors, rumors have told me that there is a new experience on the way. Yeah. We gave a little sneak peek of a new fully integrated Azure portal experience. That's awesome. In March. Yeah. And we've actually made some progress since then. And we continue to get feedback from customers about some of the challenges they're having moving between ARM templates and PowerShell and then the Azure Marketplace that we have now. So working on unifying all that into a single management service. Now is there any way that we could show people what that would look like? You know what, Cory? It just so happens. I've got it ready right here. So this, we've got a laptop right here. This. Well, maybe we should go to the demo. It's very spelt. It happens to be right here. It's very spelt. Very nice. Usage. So actually here I'm in our trial. You can tell it's the orange bar. It's the orange bar. It's like the internal secret website. That's right. Yeah, exactly. But you'll notice here in the blade here we've got a Windows virtual desktop icon. So right here. Look at that. With the most logo. Yeah, very cool. So from this new management tool I can actually build out my very first host pool. And that's effectively all you need to do. So if you want to build out, you know, a WVD deployment, I simply just come into here. I can go to host pools. And you can see we've got a ton of test host pools here already. I can see you're playing with that. But I wanted to create a new host pool. And this could be, you know, hosting apps or desktops. It can be this new Windows 10 multi-user, server-based, or even VDI. I answer some of the same basic questions that we have on our marketplace tool today, like where do I want to deploy it? Who's the admin that's managing this? Right. And then because we're built on top of the Azure platform here, going into the VM management tool, it's a much richer experience now to get with this. Exactly the network, exactly the VMs. That's right. All the PEs, et cetera. And everything in the gallery is available to us here. So any VM size, anything that's available to you. Oh my goodness. I can actually realize, wow. And we provide some tools here to make it really easy for you to decide how many instances of VMs you need, what size to choose. So you can simply tell us, what workload you've got. So is this a heavy workload, light or medium, or you can go custom? So if I said it was a heavy workload, and I can just say how many users have had 100 users, and they're 19. Oh, 19? That would be a good heavy workload. But I will definitely see customers making choices in the thousands or tens of thousands. Yeah. In this case, I was to say, you know, five users per core and an eight core machine. So we're going to need about 50, somewhere in that range. I've got someone else to do the math for us. Yeah, I'm sure it would go out, build those VMs for me, and automatically set the loading of those VMs to that size. That's awesome. Yeah, so really slick way. Super simple. Yeah, if you go through the rest of this, you can see, it also gives you an opportunity to set some of the parameters about this host pool. Sure. So you can say, am I using multimod? Do I want to allow redirection of com ports, USB ports, and things like that? All these are like options that you can turn on multimod and have that word done. Wow. And all this today, unfortunately, people have to go into our, you know, call the PowerShell to go set these parameters. So nice. They're all surfaced right here. Oh my God. I can do this. Wow. Lots of settings. Gives me a lot of flexibility here. Enable SuperPen. There's a lot of cool things here. Wow. And you can do this after the fact. So I can go through and set all these now, but I could just, if I just wanted to get through this really quick, I could set some tags if I wanted. I could look at the total deployment. If I entered in the parameter, I'd just click right here and away it goes. Yeah. And I created my first host pool. Wow. It's been working hard. Made a lot of progress since what we showed in March. Yeah. This is great. Very cool. The plan is to get this out in the hands of our customers in an early preview mode as soon as it's, yeah, soonish. Soonish. Because that is the official, that is the official name. So, well, hey, Scott, thank you so much. This has been fantastic. I think this is a super cool experience that you just walked through and a super cool service. And I think we probably have one more thing that we want to show people, but maybe that's going to be the next show. We will pull that in for the next show. But for this show, if you have any questions or any comments, please let us know. Hashtag Azure TWC. And that is stands for Azure Tuesdays with Court. And that's Meet Court. And we are here talking about Windows Virtual Desktop. So thank you so much. Thanks. Thank you. Have a great Tuesday. Are you allowed to go on an airplane? If you're not on an airplane. I think you can get a heavy fine. Yeah. We may have to call the FAA on this flight. Your carrier is going to hunt you down. That's right. Hold on. I'll call. Overhaul set. Oh, you're ready? Yes. You hit the record button on that one there? It's recording. Excuse me. I've got a message on my... We're just going to need... I just need to... You should be on airplane. Siri. All right. You're ready? Yeah. You're ready? I'm ready. And so it's got to me. 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