My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
Hello and welcome to my contribution for the Festive Tech Calendar. This community event is organised by the community for the community. This year they are raising money for Missing People. Check out the website to see all the participants from this year’s edition. Identity and security are 2 of the most important things in…
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…
Welcome in this 2nd part of this Harden Nerdio Manager for Enterprise blog series. In this blog series I take a look at the security of the Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. In the previous I looked at the App Service. In case you missed that post you can read it here. In part 2 I’m…
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 blog about AVD and Terraform. We all know that the biggest cost for Azure Virtual Desktop is the virtual machine running cost. In the past we could enable autoscaling using an automation account and an Azure Logic App. Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of the Scaling Plan feature. This…