My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Hi there, Welcome to my contribution for this year’s Azure Spring Clean 2023. It’s a community event taking place from march 13 until march 17th. For more info check the website here. Security is a very important part of your journey to and in Azure. If anything happens in your environment you need to be…
Hi there, Welcome to another Azure Virtual Desktop blog post where I combine AVD with the power of Nerdio. Security is a big subject these days and you want to make sure that you have enough security on each layer. You can have security on your Azure network but you also need to secure your…
In my last couple of blog posts about deploying an AVD host pool and session hosts I always deploy all the resources in one deployment. Till now Terraform couldn’t load the host pool in your main.tf file other then with an import command. Recently I got a question from a community member if I had…
The last couple of years we had to rely on ADDS or AADDS for the FSLogix permissions. Last year Microsoft introduced a new way of authenticating. Azure AD Kerberos was introduced last year as a third option. This is a a great solution for customers who want to go cloud only. If you want to…
Hello and welcome to another Azure Virtual Desktop with Terraform blog post. In this blog I’ll show you how you can automate the deployment of private endpoints for AVD. Networking and security are 2 very important components in Azure. By default, the Azure Virtual Desktop is available through the internet. With the option to use…
This week Tom Hickling shared the news that the host pool deployment now supports availability zones during the AVD deployment. this new feature will speed up the process of deploying your session hosts in for example the 3 availability zones of West Europe. For the people who want to read the official announcement click here.…
When deploying virtual machines in Azure you have to think about alot of things. You are not finished with just a virtual machine. You need to have a way to backup, update, manage, monitor your virtual machines. In this blogpost I’ll talk about installing Azure Extensions on your Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts to help…
One of the most critical components of an Azure environment is a Log Analytics workspace. It is important because you can configure diagnostic settings on most of the Azure resources. These diagnostic settings can be sent to your Log Analytics Workspace. In this blogpost I’ll show you how to deploy it to your management resource…
In the past you couldn’t control the update pattern of the AVD agent and Geneva monitoring agent installed on your session hosts. These updates were completely controlled by Microsoft in the past and you couldn’t modify this. With the new scheduled updates you have more control over the update schedule, so it doesn’t impact the…
Security is this modern world is very important. You need to make sure that your Azure environment is as secure as possible. Off course it’s not only the Azure environment you need to secure. If you have virtual machines running, you also need to secure them. One of the options you have to secure your…