App Volumes – “Unable to contact App Volumes Manager” after the November 2026 Windows update

After the November 2026 cumulative update (KB5132061), App Volumes users get "Connection Error – Unable to contact App Volumes Manager. Virtualization is disabled." The cause is Microsoft's new NTLM signing behaviour (KB5135557). Here is where the error shows up in the logs, what I ruled out, the workarounds and the fix.

VMware Horizon – Windows 10 based Application Pools

With VMware Horizon v. 7.9, we now have the ability to set up Application Pools based on Windows 10 Desktop Pools. Could this also be used to publish attached AppStacks from Windows 10 desktops to Application Pools? Did a test…