G’day! Quick one this time, about a small chore that keeps coming back. You expand Azure VM OS disk space in the portal, or deploy a VM with a bigger disk than the image it came from, and Azure shows the new size. Then you look inside Windows and C: is still the old size,
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! 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 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
G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick one today that I know will resonate with anyone managing Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 environments – those bloody annoying Microsoft Teams privacy prompts! You know the ones I’m talking about. Every time a new user logs into their AVD session or Windows 365 Cloud PC,
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Azure Virtual Desktop, W365
G’day everyone! Hope you’re all well. Quick post today on something that’s been rolling out that I’m genuinely excited about, RDP Multipath for Azure Virtual Desktop. If you’re anything like me and have been dealing with users moaning about dropped connections and laggy sessions, then this might just be the solution we’ve all been waiting
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Azure Virtual Desktop, W365
Hello! In this post, we’ll explore how to integrate Nerdio ShellApps with the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) to streamline even the most complex application deployments. This powerful combination is particularly useful for handling challenging apps that require custom registry entries or files distributed across all user profiles. By pairing PSADT with Nerdio ShellApps, you
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Azure Virtual Desktop
Hello there! Quick post today on how to create a domain join service account to add Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) session hosts to the domain. Prerequisites Organisational Unit Structure for AVD Before we start, ensure that your organisational units are set up in a clean manner, as delegating control will apply to the OU that
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Azure Virtual Desktop
🆕📢 UpdateThe Remote Desktop Client covered in this post has been deprecated by Microsoft and is no longer the recommended way to connect to Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. Microsoft now recommend using the Windows App as the replacement, which provides a unified experience for connecting to AVD, Windows 365 and other remote desktops
