Here’s a scenario most Azure admins will recognise. Something needs doing on a group of Azure Windows VMs. Nothing complicated, maybe a service restart, a registry check, or an application that needs reinstalling. The task itself takes a minute. Getting to it doesn’t: it’s RDP onto the first VM, do the thing, log off, RDP […]
G’day. Today I want to show you how to configure regional settings through Intune proactive remediation scripts: UK date formats, the pound sign, the right country, and a sensible clock. The reason this needs a script at all is simple enough. Regional settings aren’t in the Settings Catalog. There’s no policy to pick, no toggle
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G’Day! Microsoft ships an official monitoring baseline for Azure Virtual Desktop as part of Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA). Host pool capacity, CPU, memory, disk, FSLogix, storage, service health, all pre-built as one deployable pattern. Good idea in theory. In practice I kept running into alerts that were too noisy, alerts that stayed silent when they shouldn’t
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Azure Virtual Desktop
G’day! If you’ve ever inherited an Intune tenant, you’ll know the feeling. You open Configuration profiles, and there it is ‘Win10 – Bitlocker v2’, ‘BitLocker Policy (NEW)’, ‘Copy of Copy of Defender’, a SCEP profile someone named after themselves in 2021, and forty others with no description between them. It’s a mess, and it makes
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Intune
G’day! If you’ve ever deployed Azure Virtual Desktop with Entra Hybrid Join, you’ll know the frustration. You deploy a perfectly good session host, everything provisions beautifully, domain join works, applications are installed, and then you sit there. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more for the bloody thing to show up as ‘Entra Hybrid Joined’
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Azure Virtual Desktop