Building envelopes play substantial role in maintaining the thermal comfort, and reduction of the energy demands in buildings, and Trombe walls are among the most efficient passive solutions for application in envelopes. Taking into account the rareness, limitations and shortcomings of the studies on glazing units of the Trombe walls and the advances in glazing technologies of the buildings, in this study physical and thermal properties of the utilized glazing units with advanced technologies and innovative configurations were investigated with focus on maintaining the highly passive functionality of the Trombe walls. Moreover, contrary to the largest extent of the former studies, the performances of the configurations in cold climates were studied annually with detailed focus on thermal requirements on different periods. Thus, wide ranges of numerical models were developed with validated methods and approaches. In this regard, novel Trombe walls with various window-to-wall ratios have been evaluated, and the impacts of different structural and spectral specifications are studied which is unprecedented. The annual heating, cooling, overheating, and comfort periods have been assessed distinctively, and solutions for boosting the efficiency of the prevalent Trombe walls through improving the specifications of the glazing units are presented. It was found that the application of Trombe walls with advanced glazing units leads to reduction of the heating period (48.8%), and improvement of the comfort conditions (23.9%), however it increases the cooling (22.7%) and overheating (2.2%) periods averagely. The physical properties (reduction ofwindow-to-wall ratios) is the most effective on improvement of comfort conditions (32%), and cooling periods (35%), however the structural properties of the glazing units are the most influential on reduction of the overheating periods (up to 12.2%). This study proves the undesirable performance of the conventional Trombe wall assemblies (window-to-wall ratio of 99%) by considering the annual assessments rather than focusing on heating period.