What's New in Hydra 2.8.0

Important: As of the Hydra version 2.7.0 release, there is a change in data logging for the Log Analytics workspace. For instructions on updating your environment, see the migration guide. This is particularly important for our MSP customers.

Features

  • AVD Hybrid for Hyper-V GA: Hydra support for AVD Hybrid with Microsoft Hyper-V is now generally available, and documentation is available.

  • AVD Hybrid for VMware Private Preview: Hydra support for AVD Hybrid with VMware vSphere is available as a private preview. If you would like to try AVD Hybrid on vSphere support, please register here.

  • Hydra Lens for AVD: Hydra’s new reporting feature with connections, errors, and network performance reports.

  • Hydra Lens for Usage and Licensing: Includes AVD concurrent users and peak sessions reports with data export.

Changes/Improvements

  • The Session Host Details table now includes the ability to filter, show and hide, and resize columns. Action buttons have been improved. Creation date and VM Location columns are available as well.

  • User Portal Announcements can be configured in Global Settings

  • More options for Availability Zone configurations

  • Deploy Azure Local Host with GPU configuration

  • Cancel imaging process while in progress

  • Retry logic added to Hydra Proxy

  • Hydra now collects Windows 365 Cloud PC usage when enabled

Bugs

  • Wrong script name shown in script collections when error-handling is showing

  • Intune device delete stays on even when "Join Intune" is disabled

  • A script collection with multiple scripts and an ‘on error handling’ condition is showing a wrong script name under some circumstances

  • The menu item Azure Resources was hidden instead of Windows 365 if unchecked in Global Settings (Fixed in 2.8.0.1)

  • Azure Local GPU configuration selected the GPU-P instead of DDA (and vice versa) (Fixed in 2.8.0.1)