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When leveraging Azure Virtual Desktop Insights with the default Azure Monitor Workbook, you’ll gain a built-in overview of both monthly and daily user activity for all host pools or specific host pools. This makes it easy to monitor usage patterns …
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While investigating a user connection issue in an Azure Virtual Desktop environment, I suddenly lost access to logs and diagnostics data stored in a Log Analytics Workspace. Attempting to view the logs in the Azure Portal resulted in the error …
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At some point, you might need to extend the address space of an existing virtual network that’s peered with your connectivity landing zone (Hub). Let’s assume you’re starting with the following configuration.
This is a short post if someone is looking for the information how to disable the call home function of the Remote Desktop Client. Important: You can not deploy this company wide on a machine level. This needs to be …
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When deploying session hosts for an Azure Virtual Desktop environment with the help of Terraform you will sooner or later run into an issue when there are still left over virtual machines (orphaned objects) inside a host pool. The registration …
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If you are working on a macOS device with the Azure Virtual Desktop Client using a non US keyboard layout you will sooner or later find out that the option key mapping of specific characters is not working. It seems …
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When working with HashiCorp Packer to create golden images, joining an Active Directory Domain is typically not necessary for most use cases. However, there are scenarios where a domain join becomes essential. For instance, an application installer might need to …
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This is a question which I am getting asked from customers very frequently and I thought its a good idea to share some views on this topic. If you have found this blog post, I expect you already know what …
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This is an important key question before you start modernizing your on-premises Virtual Desktop infrastructure and moving workloads to Microsoft Azure. I have seen a lot of projects failing during the proof of concept because during the architecture phase of …
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For larger enterprises it is recommended to host the database for the Azure AD Connect on a dedicated SQL server. According to the Microsoft docs it is possible to use the simplified LocalDB deployment for up to 100.000 objects in …
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