Tools and Scripts
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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...
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.
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...
Audit your Entra ID user role assignments
Today I have a relatively short blog post. I have created a script that exports all Entra ID user role assignments with Microsoft Graph. This can come in handy when auditing your users, but then realizing the portals doesn't always show you the information in the...
Disk cleaning script on Windows Azure VMs
On Windows Servers, a critical point is maintaining the disk space. If a disk fills up to the end, several errors can occur and impacting...
Audit your privileged Entra ID applications
In Microsoft Entra ID it's possible to create App registrations and Enterprise applications who can get high privileges if not managed and monitored regularly. We do our best with Identities to be secure, with security processes like MFA, access reviews and such, but most of the...
Test Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity and RTT
Sometimes, we need to check some basic connectivity from end user devices to a service like Azure Virtual Desktop. Most networks have a custom firewall equipped where we must allow certain traffic to flow to the internet. Previously there was a tool from Microsoft available, the...
Windows Search optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop
When using Windows 11 Multi Session images on Azure for Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft has disabled some features and changed the behaviour to optimize it for using with multiple users. One of the things that has been "lazy loading" is Windows Search. The first time after...
My Azure Naming Framework
Naming your resources in Microsoft Azure ensures a proper way of recognizing a certain cause and result of what your resources do. Good naming is part of the documentntation process, where an environment with good naming strategy will always do it better in case of outages...
Create AD users with on demand script
Today I have a PowerShell script that creates users by asking the user what to fill in. This works by having a fully prepared "New-ADUser" command with all the properties filled in to have all users using the same attributes.