My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Hi everyone, Welcome to another blog post about Azure Virtual Desktop. A couple of months ago, I did a blog post about the new version of App Attach. I already showed how App Attach works in the Azure portal in a previous blog post. You can read it here. Of course, a lot of organizations…
Hi all, Welcome to another blog post about AVD in combination with Terraform. Cost saving is very important in Azure and this is no different with AVD. Remote apps can help save costs because more users can work on the same session host. This is of course because remote apps don’t consume the same amount…
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…
Hi everyone, Microsoft recently announced the new public preview of App Attach. This new preview simplifies adding packages and managing them in the Azure portal. The new way allows us to manage the packages and assign them to the host pools, instead of creating the packages per host pool. Let’s take a look at the…
Hi everyone, Welcome to this new blog post where I will take a look at how to easily deploy managed identities. A managed identity can be used to give Azure resources access to other resource and combine it with RBAC. The benefit of these identities is that the IT admin doesn’t need to maintain a…
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…
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…
Hi There, Welcome to the 2nd part of my 2 serie blogpost about AVD on confidential virtual machines. In the first part I showed how to create the key vault, keyvault key and disk encryption set. You can check it here. In this part I’ll focus on the deployment of a session host with Terraform.…
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…
Hello, I’m back with another blogpost about Azure Virtual Desktop and Terraform. Since security is very important, I’m going to focus on that topic in this post. A very easy way to add more security to your AVD environment is to enable MFA for the users. Using MFA we can ensure that the users need…