If you are using Windows Virtual Desktop (aka WVD, aka Azure Virtual Desktop, aka AVD) you may have a need to provide multimedia redirection to your users, allowing the use of the local client capabilities to play multimedia content instead of running it on the WVD session. Well, good new, you can now have multimedia […]
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By now, you may already know that a new Windows version – Windows 11 – is coming by the end of this year. You may already know that you can deliver Windows 10 experience on the cloud using Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD – now known as Azure Virtual Desktop, AVD) and Azure Virtual Machine. Well,
As you know, you can create virtual network (vNet) on Azure. Virtual networks are required when deploying virtual machines, VPN gateway or other many other resources. Well, until know you had to carefully plan your virtual network size, including future growth of the virtual network needs. Sometime you have to resize your virtual network because
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As you know, Azure provides a ping test to evaluate the availability of your endpoints through the use of Application Insights. Well, the ping test is being upgraded and now called standard test and now provides ability to define the type of HTTP request (Get, Put, Head…) and get SSL health (aka expiration) notification. The
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If you are using Windows Virtual Desktop (aka WVD, aka Azure Virtual Desktop, aka AVD) you know you need to use a specific remote desktop client. The AVD Remote Desktop client is being updated frequently to introduce new capabilities and fixes. Well, starting July 27th 2021, Microsoft is enforcing a minimum remote desktop client. You
By now, you already know that Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager is the Microsoft solution for managing devices (either Windows, iOS or Android) by deploying configuration policies (configuration profiles), deploying applications to the devices or protect your corporate data with application protection policies. You may already know the Windows Virtual Desktop, the Windows 10 multi session solution
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As you know, you can manage your Azure resources using either the web portal (https://portal.azure.com) or command line tools (Azure PowerShell or Azure Cli). Well, regarding Azure PowerShell you also know the PowerShell modules have been evolving continuously. If you are still using the ‘old’ AzureRM modules (introduced in 2015 and since then been replaced
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As you know you can add extensions (small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks) to your virtual machine running on Azure. Well, you can now get these extensions automatically upgrade when there is a new version. This is a preview capability which means there is no SLA associated with it in case of
As you know you should protect your resources running on Azure connected to a virtual network (vNet) using Network Security Group (NSG). Well, it now easier to manage well-known communication ports (or services) to allow/disallow traffic. When editing inbound or outbound rule to add new communication port you no longer have to manually enter the
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If you are using Azure Database for MySQL server, you can now stop the server. This can be useful for dev/test environment where it is not required to get it running 24/7. When the server is in stopped state, the associated compute cost is no longer billed but the storage is. The MySQL server can
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