My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
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…
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…
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, 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…
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 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…
Hi everyone, Welcome to another blog post about AVD and security. To improve the security of your AVD environment remote apps are a very good way to achieve this. With the use of remote apps you can make sure that the end users don’t have access to the session host. Microsoft recently announced the public…
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…