My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Hello, Welcome again to my blog. This time I’m focusing on security and Azure Virtual Desktop. Until now, Microsoft relied on the Windows virtual Desktop service principal to do security for AVD for example to acces the key vault where a secret is stored. Microsoft is changing this and wants us to use managed identities.…
Hi there, Naming convention is a big part of a company journey to the cloud. It’s important to structure an environment and it makes supporting it much easier. Since the beginning of Nerdio, during the deployment from the marketplace, the Nerdio resources had default names. This caused issue for a lot of companies that enforce…
Hi all, Have you ever wanted to check out how AVD works but don’t have the knowledge yet about all the different components? Microsoft has simplified the deployment of AVD and has created a new version of the Getting started feature from a couple of years ago. Let’s see what this new version is and…
Hello all, The year 2024 has been the year of AI and Microsoft has jumped the hype with Copilot. Copilot can make the life of the users easier but also that of the IT admin. At the moment of writing this blog post, Azure Copilot is in Public Preview. Azure Copilot can help the IT…
Hello, Microsoft released App Attach this year as the successor for MSIX App Attach. There is a good chance you are already using MSIX packages. For this reason Microsoft has released scripts to convert MSIX packages to App Attach. In this blog post I’ll walk you through all the necessary steps, so let’s get started.…
Hi All, Microsoft Ignite is underway and the Windows Cloud team is releasing a lot of new features this week for Azure Virtual Desktop. In this blog post I’m going to focus on a very cool feature called dynamic autoscaling. Did you ever think that the auto scale feature that is available in the Azure…
Hi everybody, Welcome in part 2 of my mini series about the new Session Host update feature for AVD. In part 1 I took a look at the prerequisites for this feature. You can read it here. Now that the prerequisites are in place, we can start exploring the new feature. Important The Session host…
Hi All, Microsoft released a new feature in public preview to update and manage session hosts. Let’s imagine that this feature can build your session hosts on a schedule basis with a configuration that you have chosen. Well, now you can with Session host update. In this blogpost I’ll walk you through the prerequisites you…
Hi All, You may have heard that Microsoft has announced that the default outbound internet access that Azure virtual machines, will end on 30 September 2025. The news can be read here. What does this mean for the IT admin? Until that date, your Azure virtual machines will be able to reach the internet by…
Hi All, You may have heard that Microsoft has announced that the default outbound internet access that Azure virtual machines, will end on 30 september 2025. The news can be read here. What does this mean for the IT admin? Until that date, your Azure virtual machines will be able to reach the internet by…