My blog about Azure and the Hybrid Cloud
In my last couple of blog posts about deploying an AVD host pool and session hosts I always deploy all the resources in one deployment. Till now Terraform couldn’t load the host pool in your main.tf file other then with an import command. Recently I got a question from a community member if I had…
The last couple of years we had to rely on ADDS or AADDS for the FSLogix permissions. Last year Microsoft introduced a new way of authenticating. Azure AD Kerberos was introduced last year as a third option. This is a a great solution for customers who want to go cloud only. If you want to…
By default Azure virtual machine have outbound internet access. You might have the requirement of having a public ip on your resource for outbound connectivity. To avoid having to assign public ip’s on virtual machines, you can choose to use an Azure NAT gateway. If you enable NAT gateway all the devices in the subnet…
So you have an Azure Virtual Desktop environment and you need to check something on a session host. These machines don’t have a public ip address so you need a way of connecting to it on the private ip address. You can use Azure Bastion and connect through the Azure portal or with the native…
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.…
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…
Hello and welcome to another blogpost about AVD in combination with Terraform. In this blogpost I’m gonna deploy an Azure Firewall with Terraform and apply the networking rules for AVD. First of all we need a vnet for the AVD session hosts. I prefer to create a vnet for AVD and create multiple subnets per…