Tag: Azure

  • 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…

  • Highly Available Firewalls and Proxies in Azure

    New and old technology usually don’t work well together. Trying to connect your Betamax video player to an OLED screen may be a challenge. It will work, but how? The same principle applies to traditional firewall setups in the cloud. With the virtualization of the networking stack not all features available in physical networks are…

  • Azure Availability Sets & Azure Capacity

    How to move a large number of VM’s between AVsets This topic is to introduce a new script that helps with deployments in Azure Availability Sets, I actually had a few reasons for writing the script, Capacity Errors and Proximity Groups AV Set Capacity When you deploy a new VM to an Availability Set in,…

  • Windows Virtual Desktop

    There are many tutorials already on WVD, but none that satisfied my needs for a full configuration with custom image. So why not create one myself….. This tutorial describes the implementation of a Windows Virtual Desktop from a custom image up to publishing applications / desktop. This post is the first in a series of…

  • Azure KeyVault BYOK

    In a previous post I went into the cloud encryption architectures. One of the topics in the post was the use of your own keys in KeyVault. In this post I’ll go hands-on with an nCipher HSM that their team graciously gave me….. (ok I borrowed it and I have to give it back..) to…

  • Privately moving data to Azure Storage

    Azure Storage is awesome it’s a durable, highly available, massively scalable cloud storage solution with public endpoints. But what if you don’t want public endpoints. What if you want a private endpoint only? A customer asked me, how can I copy data using Azure Data Factory over my ExpressRoute link to my Azure Storage account…