Monitor AVD with the Azure Monitor Agent part 2: Using Azure Policy

Monitor AVD with the Azure Monitor Agent part 2: Using Azure Policy

Hey Everyone, Welcome to my next blog series about AVD. In this series I’m going to focus on the monitoring part of AVD. You all know that you can configure monitoring of your AVD environment using the AVD Insights. Since the beginning this was done using the Log Analytics Workspace Agent. Since this agent is…

Deploy an Azure Dedicated host for Azure Virtual desktop session hosts

Hi There, Welcome to another blog post about Azure Virtual Desktop. In this post I’m going to talk about Azure Dedicated hosts. I’ll discuss what they are and why you can use them. I’ll also deploy a dedicated host and do this with Terraform. Let’s get started. What is an Azure dedicated host? An Azure…

Create alternative scaling schedules with Nerdio

Create alternative scaling schedules with Nerdio

Hi there, Welcome to another blog post about AVD in combination with Nerdio. Since AVD is consumption based it’s very important to configure a correct scaling plan. This way you can minimize your running costs. Until now you could only configure one default scaling schedule. With the newest version from Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 5.5.0…

Create a confidential compute avd session host with Terraform Part 1

Create a confidential compute avd session host with Terraform Part 1

Hi everybody, In July from this year Microsoft announced the general availability from confidential virtual machines for Azure Virtual Desktop. You can read the announcement here. With the possibility of using confidential compute for your session hosts, we can increase the security of our environment. I’ve split up this blog post in 2 parts. This…