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Enable Azure Virtual Desktop Insights automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : December 23, 2022
Categories : Azure virtual desktop
Tags : Insights ,Azure ,Power shell

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights is a way to get sight into your AVD environment. In short (from Microsoft), Azure Virtual Desktop Insights is a dashboard built on Azure Monitor Workbooks that helps IT professionals understand their Azure Virtual Desktop environments.

Route own Intune data to Log Analytics using custom logs

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 30, 2022
Categories : Log analytics ,Microsoft intune
Tags : Azure ,Log analytics ,Microsoft intune ,Power shell ,Rest API

I often write blogs about getting data with the Graph API and using it for monitoring. A while ago I was thinking about how to get my own data into Log Analytics.
In this blog post, I show how to ingest custom MEM data into a Log Analytics table. I also show how to configure all components in an automated way.

The Endpoint Security Train - Introduction

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 20, 2022
Categories : Endpoint ,Security
Tags : Endpoint ,Zero trust ,The endpoint security train ,Microsoft intune ,Azure ,Entra ID

The IT landscape is changing. Private becomes public, local resources are moving to the public cloud. More and more workloads return to the local endpoint. Cloud endpoints (AVD, W365) are mostly used to run legacy software. With all those movements, it could be challenging to keep the herd in the pasture. Devices are everywhere and what about security?

Disable user tenant creation

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 17, 2022
Categories : Entra ID ,Security
Tags : Azure ,Entra ID

It looks like Microsoft has added a new option that allows users to create tenants. Some people have seen the Tenant Creation option in the regular Azure portal but was removed fast. For now, the option is still available in the Preview Azure Portal (https://preview.portal.azure.com/)

Route AVD traffic through static WAN IP with Azure Firewall automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : November 4, 2022
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Network
Tags : WAN ,Azure ,Firewall ,Security

Recently I had a situation where a customer asked me how to make sure the AVD environment always has the same WAN IP. To give Azure Virtual Desktop a fixed external IP, some options are available. Think about a NAT gateway or an Azure Firewall. In this blog post, I show how to configure a static WAN IP for AVD with the use of the Azure Firewall in an automated way.

Monitor and get alerts from Microsoft Intune

Sander Rozemuller
Date : April 19, 2022
Categories : Azure ,Microsoft intune ,Monitoring
Tags : Automation ,Azure ,Microsoft intune ,Monitoring ,Power shell ,Rest API

Out of the box, Microsoft Intune has a reporting platform where lots of information is stored. Think about device management or endpoint analytics. For troubleshooting, reports can help. However, if you need to troubleshoot you are too late in the first place. It would be nice to get alerts out of Microsoft Intune. Luckily, there are options to achieve that goal. In this post, I show a way to monitor and get alerts from Microsoft Intune.