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In-depth articles on Azure Virtual Desktop cost optimization, architecture, governance, and operational best practices from the Atlas AVD team.
Latest articles
- Atlas Ink vs CodeTwo: Two Very Different Places to Put an Email Signature
CodeTwo stamps signatures onto mail in transit - which means routing your mail through its cloud service. Atlas Ink writes the signature into the mailbox itself and, by default, never touches a message. That one architectural choice decides almost everything else: client coverage, compliance scope, user experience, and what you pay.
- Atlas Ink vs Exclaimer: Do You Need a Signature Marketing Platform, or Managed Signatures?
Exclaimer is the category heavyweight, and it has grown into a signature marketing platform - campaign banners, click analytics, scheduling, editions. Atlas Ink is deliberately narrower: signatures as IT policy, pushed into every mailbox from Entra ID for $1 per active user, always. Which one you need depends on who owns the signature - marketing or IT.
- Atlas Ink vs Letsignit, Opensense, and WiseStamp: Mapping the Email Signature Field
Beyond CodeTwo and Exclaimer sits a field of signature platforms each built for a different buyer: Letsignit for Microsoft-centric marketing teams, Opensense for enterprise ABM, WiseStamp for individuals and small teams. An honest map of who each one is for - and where Atlas Ink's mailbox-provisioning, $1-per-active-user model, fits.
- How Atlas AVD Uses WinGet to Deploy, Update, and Audit Software on Every Session Host
Atlas AVD is built around the Windows Package Manager end to end: WinGet installs your apps when a session host is provisioned, a one-click Update button in the console upgrades a package on a live VM, and Atlas reads the WinGet-AutoUpdate logs back off each host so you can see exactly what installed, what failed, and why.
- Atlas AVD Pricing Explained: Flat-Rate Licensing That Scales With You
Atlas AVD pricing licenses the management platform per tenant, not your user count. Here is how flat-rate AVD licensing works, why unlimited AVD users lowers total cost of ownership as you grow, and answers to the Azure Virtual Desktop pricing questions buyers ask most.
- Cut Idle AVD Compute: Our Cost Model Shows Up to 60% for Office-Hours Estates
Azure Virtual Desktop costs can spiral quickly without the right controls. Here are the strategies that, in our cost model, cut AVD compute spend by up to 60% for an estate with predictable office hours, and how to apply each one.
- How to Deploy AVD in Under 30 Minutes
Azure Virtual Desktop deployment doesn't have to take days. With the right approach and a clear checklist, you can have a working AVD environment in 30 minutes or less.
- Top 10 Azure Virtual Desktop Mistakes
Most AVD deployments make the same mistakes. After working with dozens of environments in production, here are the ten most common problems and how to avoid them.