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AVD Automation Cocktail - The Menu

Sander Rozemuller
Date : June 10, 2021
Categories : Avd cocktail ,Azure virtual desktop
Tags : Arm ,Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Azure virtual desktop ,Bicep ,Cocktail ,Dev ops ,JSON ,Power shell

Welcome to a fresh new series about deploying Azure Virtual Desktop environments automated called the “AVD Automation Cocktail”. In this series I will serve several cocktails and will take you along on the AVD automated deployment journey with different types of automation languages. Every type has its own pros and cons, deployment strategy, parameter structure and commands. In the series all of these items will pass and hopefully it will give you a good overview about the possibilities.

Launching the first version of Az.Avd WVD PowerShell module

Sander Rozemuller
Date : April 29, 2021
Categories : Automation ,Azure ,Azure virtual desktop ,Power shell
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Azure virtual desktop ,Module ,Power shell ,Psgallery

During my travel the past year in the world of AVD I noticed I’m using the common Az.DesktopVirtualization PowerShell module very often, but there are some limits. In basics they do their job but if you like more intelligence or add more resource types you will need to combine PowerShell commands to get useful information. That’s the point where I started writing a AVD PowerShell module and now it is time to share my functions as a fresh new module called Az.Avd.

Delete assigned user from a personal AVD session host automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : April 19, 2021
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Entra ID
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Hostpool ,Power shell ,Session host ,User management

An Azure Virtual Desktop environment has two types of host pools, a pooled and a personal type. The main difference between them is the user assignment. In this article I will show how to deal with personal assigned session hosts and how to delete the assigned user and will save work.

Prepare Azure DevOps for AVD deployment – Create a Service Connection Automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : March 11, 2021
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Dev ops
Tags : Dev ops ,Power shell ,Rest API

Using Azure DevOps is a really nice way to deploy resources in Azure, so also for Windows Virtual Desktop. Before you are able to deploy resources into Azure with pipelines you will need to setup a project and a service connection first. In post I will explain how to create a DevOps Service Connection the automated way.

Configure Azure Firewall Premium features for AVD automated

Sander Rozemuller
Date : February 26, 2021
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Security
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Azure virtual desktop ,Networking ,Power shell ,Security ,Vnet

Security became important more and more. It is recommend, now the days arrived where the most people work from home and IT is moving to the public cloud, to use a good firewall with less complexity as possible. In case of AVD within the current situation an IT environment can be complex. In this article I will explain how configure an Azure Firewall for AVD automated with premium options, which came in public preview at 16 February 2021. At the end I will show how to deploy an Azure Firewall specially for a AVD environment with all the needed steps automated.

Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop required URL’s with Log Analytics Workspace

Sander Rozemuller
Date : January 22, 2021
Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Monitoring
Tags : Azure virtual desktop ,Log analytics ,Network security groups ,Power shell

Microsoft has provided a list with URL’s which you need for running a Azure Virtual Desktop environment. In this blog post I will explain how to monitor any issues related to the AVD required URL’s. and how to setup the monitoring environment.