Welcome to this blog about configuring Azure Virtual Desktop session host with Microsoft Intune. The Intune settings catalog is growing very fast and now also AVD settings making it to the settings catalog.
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Autoscaling for pooled AVD host pools is GA for a while now. Since 18 July 2023 a new autoscale mechanism became in Public Preview for AVD personal host pools. Currently it is only supported to configure autoscale for personal host pools by using the portal. There are no API’s or PowerShell modules available (yet) to automate the creation or mutating personal scaling plans or schedules.
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Recently Microsoft announced a new feature called AVD hostpool image update. In this blog, I explain how to configure this new feature in an automated way.
First, let’s talk about images. Because why should you use an image. Well, I could be short in that, you don’t want trouble. Often I see AVD environments without the back of the Azure Compute Gallery or managed images. If I ask why not using images, I got answers like there are just a few hosts, it is a cost thing, or too complex.
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We all know WordPress. It is a good platform for running websites with almost every purpose. Since the start of this blog, I also used WordPress. It has a lot of templates and plug-ins available. For me running this blog on WordPress was good enough. Now a few years later it became more a frustration than a pleasure to keep my website up and running. In this blog, I explain why and how I changed my website into a static webpage.
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In this post, I show how to make it possible to fix a personal AVD host as a user. There could be a situation where your AVD session host becomes unresponsive. In that case, you want to try to restart the host but are not able to log in to the host. Also, you can’t restart the host in the web portal / RD client.
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In this 4th slice of Prepare Azure DevOps for AVD deployment series, I will show how to copy or clone an existing YAML pipeline automated from a source project into a new AVD project. This will help you keep one main pipeline as a source and will allow you to create a “linked” pipeline into a new project directly from the source.
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