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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use Azure Active Directory

As you know if you are deploying and managing Azure Virtual Desktop (aka AVD, aka Windows Virtual Desktop, aka WVD) you have (had) the requirement to use either an Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS) or Azure Active Directory Domain Service to join your virtual machine (AAD DS). Well, good news, this requirement is no

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Azure – Migrate your Azure Cloud Service to ARM or extended support before August 2024

If you use an Azure Cloud Service classic – which is probably the case if you use SCCM Current Branch and have deployed the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG), you will have to migrate your Azure Cloud Service from classic to ARM or to extended support before August 31, 2024 You can get all the details

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Multimedia redirection is now available in preview

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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Windows 11 – Windows 11 is now available in preview in Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Virtual Machine

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,

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Azure – You can now resize your peered virtual network with no downtime (preview)

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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Azure – Use the standard ping test to have more ping test options

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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Azure Virtual Desktop – Ensure you are using a recent remote desktop client before July 27th 2021

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

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Intune – You can now enroll and manage Windows Virtual Desktop (preview)

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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Azure – AzureRM PowerShell will be retired by Feb 29, 2024

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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Azure – You can now automatically upgrade the extension of your virtual machine (preview)

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

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