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…

Configure Defender for Cloud for an Azure Virtual Desktop subscription with Terraform

Configure Defender for Cloud for an Azure Virtual Desktop subscription with Terraform

Hello everybody, Welcome to another blogpost about Azure Virtual Desktop. In this blog post I’m going to talk about security. One of the first things to do when you create a new subscription for AVD is to enable the Defender for Cloud plans. Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that will…

Azure Spring Clean 2023: Configure Microsoft Defender For Cloud Continuous Export for an Azure Virtual Desktop Subscription with Terraform

Azure Spring Clean 2023: Configure Microsoft Defender For Cloud Continuous Export for an Azure Virtual Desktop Subscription with Terraform

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…

Deploy the necessary Azure Virtual Desktop session host extensions using Terraform

Deploy the necessary Azure Virtual Desktop session host extensions using Terraform

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…

Deploy a Log Analytics Workspace with Terraform

Deploy a Log Analytics Workspace with Terraform

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…