My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
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…
Microsoft recently announced a new feature for the Azure Compute Gallery formerly known as the Shared image gallery. In the past you could only put images in the gallery to use in different regions. With the latest feature you can also publish and share applications and in multiple regions. For more info about the Azure…
Hello and welcome to another blogpost about AVD in combination with Terraform. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy an Azure Firewall with Terraform and apply the networking rules for AVD. First of all we need a vnet for the AVD session hosts. I prefer to create a vnet for AVD and create multiple subnets per…
Since I got the question on Linkedin, I decided to do a blog post around it. In this blog post you will see how it works to import an already existing host pool into Nerdio. This way you can take advantage of all the features that Nerdio has to offer for every environment you have.…
Hello and welcome to my next blogpost series. In this series I’m gonna talk about all the aspects of making sure your Azure Virtual Desktop environment high available. I’m gonna do this while using Nerdio manager for Enterprise. In this first part I’m gonna talk about the image and how to customize it with Nerdio…
Hello and welcome to another blogpost in my Azure Virtual Desktop and Terraform series. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy 2 AVD session host in an already existing host pool. Steps to be done: Already have an existing host pool in Azure modify the main.tf file for the host pool and import it configure the…