Category: Azure

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – Tips and Tricks – Publishing RDP

    When you have your pool up and running, you might want to do some special stuff. For example, you might want to enable Mic + WebCam redirection: Set-RdsHostPool -TenantName <tenantName> -Name <hostpoolName> -CustomRdpProperty “audiocapturemode:i:1;camerastoredirect:s:*;” And there are a lot more options you can enable / disable check: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/rdp-files?context=/azure/virtual-desktop/context/context For example, disabling Copy/Paste and Printers, so…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – Firewalls

    When you deploy a new Pool, the VM’s in that pool will need access to some URLs and internal IP’s for the deployment to complete. First, the VM’s will be joined to your domain, meaning they will need the standard ports open to the domain controllers and DNS servers. Secondly, an agent is deployed that…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – SSO

    One the of most annoying things is passwords. And as you might know, Microsoft is on a quest to remove them: which includes you users access to WVD. But unfortunately this is only possible in certain architectures where you have your users authenticate to AAD using ADFS, have a backend (Windows 2008 or higher) PKI…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – Expanding and renewing

    Once you have your running WVD environment based on a template, you might run into the issue where you either need to expand your pool, or you need to update the running VM’s with new software based on a new or improved template. We’ve already discussed how to bring back your pre-Sysprepped image so you…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – AutoDeploy FSLogix

    When you want to use the default images without too much alterations (because you only need to publish simple applications or just a desktop/browser/etc), you still might want to use the FSLogix profile manager. This post describes the installation of the agent in an automated way so quick deployment of marketplace images is now possible.…

  • Windows VIRTUAL DESKTOP – OVERVIEW

    I’ve written a few posts already on WVD. This post is to make sure that all of them are in a single overview for you to view, and to give you a short description of which article you need: If you are new to WVD and you would like to deploy it in a simple…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – Profile Management with Azure files & FSLogix

    When we deployed our WVD VM’s, these VM’s are basically Windows 10 VM’s that allow multiple users to login. When users login to pooled VM’s they can be redirected to any of the available VM’s in a pool, and ideally we want to ensure that the users’ profile is the same on all of those.…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop – Reusing your template VM

    When working with Windows Virtual Desktop and custom images, you will notice that you need to sysprep your master image that makes it useless for the rest of the time. In my previous post I advised to create a pre-sysprep snapshot so we can re-use the same image without too much hassle. In this post,…

  • Azure Extended network (“L2” – ish connections)

    In November 2019 at the Microsoft Ignite conference there was a demo on how to extend your on-premises network to Azure. While embedded in a regular Azure session, one might think this allows you to do a L2 extension of your network into an Azure network, its actually not. Yes, you can have overlapping subnets…

  • Delegated Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment

    When deploying Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure you can use all the administrative credentials you can find as per the guide. But what if you are in a more “regular” environment where you don’t have “Domain Admin” and “Global Admin” permissions? In that case, you follow this post where we will look at who needs…

  • FIDO2 – the infinite loop broken

    In my previous post I talked about FIDO2 keys from FEITIAN and how to register them. One of the points for registration was that you need to sign-in with MFA to register your FIDO2 key. But what if your users do not want that, or cannot do that? To the rescue comes ENSURITY. They have…

  • Even strong passwords are… stupid – part 2 – FIDO2

    Microsoft is on a quest to remove passwords. While this will be a long journey it is worth the effort. Passwords are weak as people tend to reuse their passwords on various sites and/or websites don’t do enough to protect them. And so, accounts are breached almost on weekly basis, and many passwords are “known”…