Azure Virtual Desktop
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Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a virtual desktop/software environment to allow faculty, staff, and students access to College-licensed software from their own computers. While the virtual desktop is a Windows environment, AVD can be used from Macs and Chromebooks as well as PCs. It can be run through the web or, for best performance, through a client installed on your computer.
Working with AVD
You must remain connected to the internet while using AVD to avoid losing work. If you are working on a laptop and close the lid or the battery dies, your session will be closed due to inactivity, and you may lose work. You should close the program or log off the remote desktop session when you are finished using it.
AVD can access printers on your computer and can print to any of your installed printers, including PC Prints printers.
Saving Files in AVD
Saving files in OneDrive is recommended when possible. However, not all applications are able to save directly to OneDrive.
You can save files to the Desktop or Documents folder within AVD, and these files will be accessible the next time you access AVD. Please be aware that you will not be able to access these files outside of AVD.
AVD automatically maps your network drives. You can save files to your network drives if you wish to access them from a computer on campus. See Network Drives for more information.
AVD Over the Web
When visiting the above link, log in with your email address and password. You will be presented with the PC Virtual Lab, a virtual Windows desktop environment.
AVD via Desktop Client
For best performance, access AVD from a desktop client. This requires having Microsoft’s Windows App on your computer. When using the desktop client, you can save to your local drives.
Software Available in AVD
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Alteryx Designer
- Anaconda
- AnyLogic
- CaseWare IDEA
- CyberRat
- Derive
- DNA Master
- GMetrix
- Google Chrome
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- MATLAB
- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Excel 365
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Microsoft OneNote 365
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop
- Microsoft PowerPoint 365
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Visual Studio Community
- Microsoft Word 365
- MobaXterm
- Mozilla Firefox ESR
- MySQL Workbench
- Notepad++
- Orange
- Palisade @RISK Platform
- PyMOL
- R for Windows
- Revvity ChemOffice Suite
- RStudio
- SciDAVis
- Spartan Student
- Stata
- Tableau
- Tableau Prep Builder
- Virtual Astronomy Laboratory
- Wolfram Mathematica
- XAMPP
