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How to image a Golden Master VM based on a plan to a compute gallery definition
The Azure Marketplace offers many preconfigured VMs, which are preconfigured images from a third-party vendor used to deploy a VM. One popular offering is "CIS Hardened Image Level 1 on...
Imaging, Rollout and Manage Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI with Hydra
Manage Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI with Hydra
Microsoft Azure and hibernated Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop Hibernation
Microsoft introduced a new feature for Virtual Machines: Hibernation (link to MS post). That is awesome and allows totally new scenarios, not even for Azure Virtual Desktop. But used with...
Install the New Teams Client on Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) - AVD
Microsoft made the New Teams client available for VDIs (preview)
How to get the Client IP Address in Azure Virtual Desktop
While migrating Virtual Desktop Environments to AVD, I got another challenge from the past: Sometimes, companies use the client IP address to identify the user's location to map a specific...
Updating a Golden Master VM from Windows 10 multi-user to Windows 11 multi-user
The Golden-Master approach is a common way to deploy applications and desktops as session hosts in Azure Virtual Desktop. The approach is very simple, and the rollout of new session...
Updating or cloning a Azure VM with standard security to trusted launch with secure boot and vTPM
Update 2025.02: Microsoft has provided an additional way to upgrade existing VMs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/trusted-launch-existing-vm-gen-1
Creating a Windows Azure VM Generation V2 from a V1 VM
Update 2025.02: Microsoft has provided an additional way to upgrade existing VMs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/trusted-launch-existing-vm-gen-1
Onboard AVD pooled session hosts to Defender automatically with a script
Onboarding session hosts to Defender is very important for security reasons. Microsoft has documented the way to onboard these devices in different scenarios here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/configure-endpoints-vdi
Session hosts are not available in Azure Virtual Desktop, but VMs are running.
During June/July, I got several emails that session hosts were not available in AVD, but the VMs were in a running state. Rebooting the host sometimes helps, and the host...
Azure Virtual Desktop - Login error Protocol Error Code 0x112f - Windows 11
Login error: Protocol Error Code 0x112f
