Azure Virtual Desktop
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Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
On this page I will describe how I built an environment with a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool with FSLogix and using the Entra Kerberos option for authentication. This new authentication option eliminates the unsafe need of storing the storage key in hosts' registry like we...
FSLogix and maximum Azure Files security
When using Azure Files and Windows 11 as operating system for Azure Virtual Desktop, we can leverage the highest SMB encryption/security available at the moment, which is AES-256. While we can change this pretty easily, the connection to the storage account will not work anymore by...
Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Properties
In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop. will be talking about local PC's and remote PC's alot, where the remote PC is of course the Azure Virtual Desktop host and the local...
Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Azure Compute Gallery is a great service in Azure to store, capture and maintain your VM images. This post explains how to work through these steps and how this works.
Customize Office apps installation for Azure Virtual Desktop
When deploying Microsoft Office apps to (pooled) Virtual Desktops, we mostly need to do some optimizations to the installation. We want to optimize performance on pooled and virtual machines, or maybe we want to enable shared computer activation because multiple users need the apps. In this...
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,...
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...
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...