My blog about Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure
Hello everyone, I recently had a chat with my friends from Nerdio and we were talking about the big announcement from Microsoft last year. Off course the conversation was about Azure virtual Desktop going Hybrid. There is a lot of buzz around this announcement, but what exactly does it mean for the AVD world, for…
Hello, Welcome to my latest blog post about Azure Virtual Desktop. Microsoft announced a new public preview. The metadata from AVD is being stored in a geographical database within each of the Azure geographies around the globe. For resiliency purposes, these geographical databases store multiple replicas within the same region as well as in a…
Hello all, Everybody who works with Azure knows that making sure the costs don’t go through the roof is vital. For Azure virtual machines we have a couple of standard cost. These are the running cost for the virtual machines, the network interfaces and the disks. When you have a large AVD environment these disks…
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…