Blog
This is my blog section. Here all new blog posts will be showed in reverse-chronological order. Just a fancy way to say newest-top.
At the left, you can view the categories, and on the right you can find the tags and Table of contents.
Test Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity and RTT
Thursday, May 22, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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3 minute read
I created a script to test the connectivity, if it is allowed through Firewall and also test the RTT to the Azure Virtual Desktop service. The script then gives the following output: The script to test Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity I have the …
Windows Search optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop
Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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3 minute read
The video In this video you will see that it takes around 5 seconds till I can begin searching for applications and Windows didnt respond to the first click. This is on a empty session host, so in practice this is much slower. How to solve this minor …
Create custom Azure Workbooks for detailed monitoring
Thursday, May 08, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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2 minute read
Introduction Azure Workbooks are a powerful way to build customizable dashboards for monitoring applications and infrastructure. They can combine multiple data sources such as: Metrics Log Analytics Workspaces Visualizations They are flexible enough …
Disable DirectSend in Exchange Online
Sunday, May 04, 2025 in Microsoft 365
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3 minute read
What is DirectSend? DirectSend (Microsoft 365) lets devices or applications (like printers, scanners, or internal apps) send email directly to users inside your organization without authentication. Instead of using authentication, it uses your MX …
Setup a Minecraft server on Azure
Thursday, May 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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12 minute read
Requirements An Azure environment Basic knowledge of Azure Basic knowledge of Linux and SSH Basic knowledge of networking and TCP/UDP Experience with Minecraft to test the server Around 45 minutes of your time System requirements of a Minecraft …
Monitor Azure Virtual Deskop logon speed
Thursday, April 24, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
The script is not made by myself, the source of the script is: https://www.controlup.com/script-library-posts/analyze-logon-duration/ The script used in practice I have a demo environment where we can test this script. There we will run the script. …
Storage Account performance and pricing for Azure Virtual Desktop
Sunday, April 20, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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7 minute read
In this blog post I will explain everything about hosting your FSLogix profiles on Azure Virtual Desktop and the storage account performance including pricing. AFter that we will do some real world performance testing and a conclusion. Billing types …
Deploy Resource Group locks automatically with Azure Policy
Thursday, April 17, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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7 minute read
Note: Locks on Resource Groups can stop some automations. If you use read-only locks on a Azure Virtual Desktop resource group for example, autoscaling will not work anymore. Take care and test these changes before creating them and assigning this …
Monitor and reduce carbon emissions (CO2) in Azure
Thursday, April 10, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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4 minute read
Carbon Optimization dashboard Azure offers several Carbon Optimization options to help organizations to monitor and reduce their CO₂ emissions and operate more sustainable. You can find this in the Azure Portal by searching for “Carbon …
Migrate servers with Azure Migrate in 7 steps
Thursday, April 03, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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8 minute read
Requirements A server to migrate to Microsoft Azure Ability to install 1 or 2 additional servers Must be in the same network Around 60 minutes of your time Administrator access to all source servers RDP access to all source servers is useful Secure …