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Enable RDP ShortPath for AVD on an image version automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 22, 2020
Categories : Azure ,Azure virtual desktop
Tags : Automation ,Power shell ,Rdp shortpath

Since Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available a lot of improvements has been done. Think about ARM template deployment, MSIX app attach through the Azure portal and performance improvements in the AVD client and latency improvements at the most of the regions.
Since 16 November 2020 a nice improvement has been added to the list, Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Short path. In this blogpost I will show you how to enable RDP Shortpath in AVD with some automation tasks.

Disaster recovery plan for Azure Key Vault using tags, PowerShell and Azure Function

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 17, 2020
Categories : Automation ,Azure ,Power shell
Tags : Arm templates ,Azure functions ,Backup ,Key vault ,Power shell ,Restore

By default the Azure Key Vault has softdelete enabled with a 90 day retention. This option will protect Key Vault items when deleted by accident. When deleted you are able to restore that item through the portal or PowerShell.
But what if someone has deleted the Key Vault itself with all the items and softdeleted items included. There is no option to restore a Key Vault. In this article I will describe a way how to backup and restore a Key Vault when deleted.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated – Part 5 Monitor Image versions with Azure Monitor

Sander Rozemuller
Date : October 28, 2020
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management ,Monitoring
Tags : Kusto query ,Monitoring ,Resource graph ,Workbooks

When using the Azure Virtual Desktop for a longer time and created images several times you will noticed you are not able to remove old images directly when a new version has been deployed. Or in case of a MSP when you need to manage more then one image after some time you will lose sight on images and versions. An image overview would be nice to have. In this article I will show how to do some image version control on a AVD environment.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated – Part 4 AVD Clean up unused resources

Sander Rozemuller
Date : October 18, 2020
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management
Tags : Azure ,Cost management ,Microsoft m365 ,Power shell

The current situation, we have created new disks, snapshots, virtual machines, networks, images and session hosts. All the resources has been added to the existing AVD hostpool. Now it is time to cleanup the old resources, to keep everything nice and clean. In this part we will take care of removing components related to the old image version.

How to use Key Vault ARM templates and deal with sensitive parameters

Sander Rozemuller
Date : October 18, 2020
Categories : Azure ,Security
Tags : Arm templates ,Key vault ,Power shell

At October 14, 2020 Mircosoft announced the public preview of ARM templates for adding secrets to Azure Key Vault. In this article I will explain a way how to use these templates.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated - Part 3 Create AVD sessionhosts on image version with ARM

Sander Rozemuller
Date : October 14, 2020
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management ,Microsoft 365
Tags : Arm templates ,Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Disk management ,Image gallery ,Power shell

This article is serie of posts about AVD Image Management Automated. In this part we are going to add new sessionhosts to an existing AVD hostpool based on a ARM template.