Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure Blog
This is my blog section. In my blog posts at this website I will dive into Microsoft Cloud solutions, basic Infrastructure and some other guides and topics. Here all new blog posts will be showed categorized in years with my newest post up top.
From the left, you can find all my post categories ordered in folders which can be expanded. On the right you can find the various tags and categories and on any blog page you can find the Table of Contents.
In-Place upgrade to Windows Server 2025 on Azure
This guide explains how to perform a in-place upgrade Windows Server from 2022 to 2025 on Azure to leverage the newest version and stay secure.
Match AD users using Entra Connect Sync and MSGraph
Sometimes, it is necessary to match an existing local Active Directory (AD) user through Entra Connect with an existing Entra ID user (formerly known as Azure AD). This process ensures that the account in both environments is aligned and maintains the same underlying configurations and settings...
Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
Joining a storage account to Active Directory can be a hard part of configuring Azure Virtual Desktop or other components to work. We must join the storage account so we can do our Kerberos authentication against the storage account. In this guide I will write down...
Configure Start VM on Connect for Azure Virtual Desktop
Start VM on Connect is made to power on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts only when a user actually connects. This is especially useful outside normal working hours, or in environments where you want to keep costs under control without blocking user access. Without this feature,...
Initial Installation script for Windows Azure VMs
When deploying Windows VMs in Azure, we get the default settings. This means we get a 12-hour clock, standard UTC/Zulu timezone and such...
Clean up old FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps
Today I have a Logic App for you to clean up orphaned FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps. As you know, storage in Azure costs money and we want to store as minimum as possible. But in most companies, old and orphaned FSLogix profiles will be forgotten...
Using FSLogix App Masking to hide applications on Virtual Desktops
In this blog post I will explain and demonstrate the pro's and features of using FSLogix App Masking for Azure Virtual Desktop. This is a feature of FSLogix where we can hide certain applications and other components from our users while still having to maintain a...
Installing Windows Updates through PowerShell (script)
Sometimes we want to install updates by hand because of the need for fast patching. But logging into every server and installing them manually is a hell of a task and takes a lot of time.
Use Ephemeral OS Disks in Azure
In Azure, you have the option to create Ephemeral OS disks for your machine. This sounds really cool but what is it actually, what pro's and cons are coming with them, what is the pricing and how do we use them? I will do my best...
Sysprep script for Azure Virtual Desktop images
When creating custom Azure Virtual Desktop images, Sysprep is one of the final steps before capturing the machine into Azure Compute Gallery or another image solution. In theory this process is simple, but in practice Sysprep can fail for many reasons. Especially on Windows 11 multi-session...