Configure AVD traffic on Azure firewall with IP Groups and Terraform Part 1

Configure AVD traffic on Azure firewall with IP Groups and Terraform Part 1

Hi All, You may have heard that Microsoft has announced that the default outbound internet access that Azure virtual machines, will end on 30 september 2025. The news can be read here. What does this mean for the IT admin? Until that date, your Azure virtual machines will be able to reach the internet by…

Enable Defender for Cloud using Azure Policy for an AVD subscription

Enable Defender for Cloud using Azure Policy for an AVD subscription

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…

Monitor AVD with the Azure Monitor Agent part 2: Using Azure Policy

Monitor AVD with the Azure Monitor Agent part 2: Using Azure Policy

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…

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…