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…

Configure Defender for Cloud for an Azure Virtual Desktop subscription with Terraform

Configure Defender for Cloud for an Azure Virtual Desktop subscription with Terraform

Hello everybody, Welcome to another blogpost about Azure Virtual Desktop. In this blog post I’m going to talk about security. One of the first things to do when you create a new subscription for AVD is to enable the Defender for Cloud plans. Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that will…

How to deploy domain controllers with Terraform

How to deploy domain controllers with Terraform

Hi everyone, Welcome to another deploying Azure resources with Terraform blogpost. As you all know the support for Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 is stopping. Because of this a lot of companies need to deploy new domain controllers. In this blogpost I’ll show you the deployment of 2 domain controllers in West Europe with…

Azure Back To School 2023: Configure the backup of FSLogix profiles with Terraform

Azure Back To School 2023: Configure the backup of FSLogix profiles with Terraform

Hi everybody, Welcome to another blog post about Azure Virtual Desktop in combination with Terraform. This blog post is written for the Azure Back to School community event. This is a annual community event during the month september. Each day community members share their knowlegde with blogposts, videos,… You can check out all content here.…