My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Hi everyone, Welcome to another blog post about Nerdio and how it can help organizations with managing AVD. In this mini series I’ll take a look the at the user self service portal. In this second part I’ll cover the end-user side and how the portal looks like for the end user and what options…
Hi Everyone, Welcome to another blog about AVD in combination with Terraform. One of the most important aspects when working in the cloud is cost saving. This is no different with AVD. With AVD scaling, the IT admin can make sure that the session hosts are not running when they are not in use. This…
Hi everyone, Security is a big topic in every organization these days and it is indeed really important especially with all the cyber-attacks. The IT admin can use Defender for Cloud to make a Cloud environment more secure. Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that will help you keeping your environment…
Hi everyone, Welcome to another blog post about Nerdio and how it can help organizations with managing AVD. In this mini series I’ll take a look the at the user self service portal. In this first part I’ll cover the admin side and how to configure the portal for the users. Typically an end-user who…
Hi everyone, Microsoft recently announced the new public preview of App Attach. This new preview simplifies adding packages and managing them in the Azure portal. The new way allows us to manage the packages and assign them to the host pools, instead of creating the packages per host pool. Let’s take a look at the…
Hi everyone, Welcome to this new blog post where I will take a look at how to easily deploy managed identities. A managed identity can be used to give Azure resources access to other resource and combine it with RBAC. The benefit of these identities is that the IT admin doesn’t need to maintain a…
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…
Hi there, Everybody who uses Nerdio knows how much benefit you have from using the Nerdio scaling to reduce the compute costs. Until now you had to configure the scaling on a per host pool level. With the latest update from Nerdio NME 5.6.1, the IT admin can now create auto-scale profiles. Be aware that…
Hi there, Welcome to another blogpost where I combine AVD with Nerdio. In a previous blogpost I showed how to deploy a dedicated host using Terraform and to deploy virtual machines on it. You can read it here. In this blogpost I’m looking at he easy option to deploy session hosts on this dedicated host.…
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…