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How to deal with AVD session hosts version management

Sander Rozemuller
Date : September 10, 2021
Categories : Automation ,Azure ,Azure virtual desktop ,Image management ,Power shell
Tags : Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Power shell

A Shared Image Gallery is a great way to distribute images over multiple environments. This great feature is also its disadvantage. When using a Shared Image Gallery in combination with several environments with even more host pools you will lose sight fast. At this moment there is no good overview of which host in which environment is using which version.
In this article, I will explain how to deal with AVD session hosts and version management. This will help to keep your environment clean and save costs.

Move AVD session hosts to a new host pool with REST API

Sander Rozemuller
Date : August 30, 2021
Categories : Azure ,Azure virtual desktop
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Hostpool ,Power shell ,Rest API ,Session host

Azure Virtual Desktop is growing and becomes available at new (metadata) locations more and more. In this article, I will explain how to move AVD session hosts to a new AVD host pool. metadata location with REST API and PowerShell.

How to deploy Windows 11 in an AVD environment

Sander Rozemuller
Date : August 23, 2021
Categories : Automation ,Azure ,Azure virtual desktop ,Power shell
Tags : Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Azure virtual desktop ,Endpoint management ,Power shell ,W365 ,Windows11

After the Windows 11 launch everyone was waiting till Windows 11 came available in Azure. Since the 19th of August Windows 11 became in preview. I decided to test it in a AVD environment. Because it is not a next-next-finish installation I will explain how to deploy Windows 11 in an AVD environment.

How to join Azure AD automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : July 26, 2021
Categories : Automation ,Entra ID ,Power shell
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Azure CLI ,Entra ID ,Power shell

In this article, I show how to deploy and join an Azure VM to Azure AD join automated. In the deployment, I use two different ways of deployment. I use PowerShell and Azure CLI. Additionally, I show how to install the AVD extension with the Azure AD join.

AVD Automation Cocktail - Azure Virtual Desktop automated with DevOps and ARM

Sander Rozemuller
Date : July 7, 2021
Categories : Avd cocktail ,Azure virtual desktop ,Dev ops
Tags : Arm templates ,Azure virtual desktop ,Cocktail ,Dev ops ,JSON ,Power shell

Welcome to the AVD Automation Cocktail. In this cocktail series I will show different AVD deployment strategies and languages. In this cocktail, the Strawberry Banana Mix, I will show you how to deploy an AVD environment automated with DevOps, ARM templates and a bit of PowerShell.

AVD Automation Cocktail - Azure Virtual Desktop automated with PowerShell

Sander Rozemuller
Date : June 28, 2021
Categories : Avd cocktail ,Azure virtual desktop
Tags : Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Cocktail ,Power shell

Welcome to the AVD Automation Cocktail. In this cocktail series, I will show different AVD deployment strategies and languages. In this cocktail, the Coconut Beach Party, I will show you how to deploy an AVD environment automated with PowerShell only.