I am pleased to announce a new book "Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop: The ultimate guide to the implementation and management of Azure Virtual Desktop" ready for preorder on both Packt's site and Amazon. This has been one of my Main covid19 projects where I have worked to put together a comprehensive book that covers all... Continue Reading →
Introduction Over the last couple of weeks, I have been testing the performance differences of Azure Virtual Machines and Windows 365 based on a set of specific criteria. This included CPU architecture, Physical hardware as in PC Virtual Machine, Microsoft Azure, Windows 365 and operating system types including Windows10, Windows11 and Server 2022. I also... Continue Reading →
Introduction I wrote the introduction to MSIX app attach at the end of last year (2020) to share my thoughts and initial testing completed. The book was also updated with additional content in FEB/March this year. As a give back to the community, I wanted to run a free book promotion so that the community... Continue Reading →
Introduction This quick step artcle shows you how to configure "Start VM Connect" in Azure Virtual Desktop. Steps The first step is to navigate to your subscription and then click Access control. Once you are in the Access Control blade, select "Add Custom role" You will then see the "Create a custom role" appear. A... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer : This post documents some of my findings when carrying out my own research and understanding the threat of Credential Grabbing. This was also to provide awareness to the End-user Computing community regarding this issue. Links to tools and some of the specifics around the attack have been deliberately omitted from this article. However,... Continue Reading →
Introduction In this article we will take a look at deploying a Azure Virtual Desktop environment using the Quick start feature "AVD QuickStart". I will be deploying to an Existing Active Directory in this example. You will need to ensure, that your network and Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) is configured before starting. Here is... Continue Reading →
Introduction This is a quick article to show you how to configure MFA with a conditional Access policy for Windows365. Please note that I am using Windows 365 Business and a developer licence from Microsoft. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program Steps: These high level steps will guide you through the process of setting up MFA and creating a conditional... Continue Reading →
Introduction This article looks at the performance metrics of Windows 365, aka the cloud PC. The desired outcome of these tests was to understand the overall performance metrics, including limitations for a Cloud PC user. Benchmark testing can provide an insight into how applications would behave and perform in a production environment. For example, the... Continue Reading →
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