WVD news of the week

Hi all,

Welcome again at my next blogpost with the lastest news around WVD.

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 6.3% in 2020

I start this week with a article on Gartnes about public cloud revenue with a focus on DaaS.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-07-23-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-public-cloud-revenue-to-grow-6point3-percent-in-2020

Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Enable Endpoint Protection

Microsoft released a very nice article about MECM that is very relevant for WVD also.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/microsoft-endpoint-manager-enable-endpoint-protection/ba-p/1801197?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

WVD Springrelease ARMTemplate Token Refresh Script

Niels Kok has written another nice blog script which performs a Token Refresh for the WVD springrelease ARMTemplate deployment. This normally needs to be entered manually but with this script this token will be refreshed at the start of every deployment.

https://www.nielskok.tech/windows-virtual-desktop/wvd-springrelease-armtemplate-token-refresh-script/

Windows Virtual Desktop Workshop: 1 Year since general availability

Microsoft is organising a 1 year GA Workshop for WVD. You can register via below link.

https://info.microsoft.com/UK-WVD-WBNR-FY21-12Dec-04-WindowsVirtualDesktopWorkshop1Yearsincegeneralavailability-AID-3024481-SRDEM48174_LP01Registration-ForminBody.html

Desktops in the cloud new episode

Christiaan and Dean released the new episode with Sandeep Patnaik.

Principal PM Manager wanted for the WVD team

Christiaan Brinkhoff posted that you can apply for a job as Principal PM in the WVD team in Redmond?

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/925348/Principal-Program-Manager/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=job-share&utm_medium=social-share

New Version of Project Biceps

The project Biceps team released a new edition.

https://github.com/Azure/bicep/releases/tag/v0.1.223-alpha

Step by step guide on computer account auth for Azure Files

Stefan Georgiev released a very nice post about  “Can computer accounts have access Azure Files?”

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-virtual-desktop/step-by-step-guide-on-computer-account-auth-for-azure-files/m-p/1855164#M5721

New Windows Virtual Desktops Gateways

Microsoft released new Gateways to improve latency in Canada and Switserland.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Windows%20Virtual%20Desktop%2CIn%20development&searchterms=64545

UK Windows Virtual Desktop User Group meeting

The recording of this weeks online event is online. Watch the session from Bas van Kaam and Esther Barthel.

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