If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD […]
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If you use Azure Automation account to automate activities, actions or process, you know that it (used to) use RunAs account for authentication. Well, on September 30, 2023, the RunAs capability will be retired and replaced by Managed Identity (know more about managed identity https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview/). If you don’t act before September 30, your runbooks will
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop you know you can access your remote applications and/or remote desktop using either the AVD remote desktop client or the web interface (https://client.wvd.microsoft.com/arm/webclient/). Well, the web interface is getting updated and is now available in preview NOTE the new experience will become ultimately the default one Administrators have nothing
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you now you can access your remote applications and/or desktop using either a web browser or the remote desktop client. Well, a new version of the client (1.2.3918) is now available: x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 x32 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139456 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139370 This version is mainly providing fixes and improvements, so now
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With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as
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As Windows administrator, you know the importance of keeping up with Windows server versions to stay supported and receive updates. To do so, you usually have 2 options to upgrade your Windows server version: in-place upgrade deploy a new virtual machine running the targeted version and then migrate your workloads and data on this new
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When working with cloud environments, identification of deployed resources is important to be able understand the need of the resources (environment, owner, application…). These is achieved by using tags. While you can enforce the use of tags in Azure using an Azure policy, it requires some administration tasks and does not automatically inherit from the
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If you manage an Azure environment and have installed the Azure mobile application (Azure Companion application) you already know that you start/stop a virtual machine and have access basic metrics and details. Well, you can now also manage the network security rules applied to the virtual machine too. To do so, access one of your
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Earlier in September, the Azure mobile application (Azure Companion application) has been updated to introduce an initial access to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) (see https://t.co/ayBZHVODXx). Well, the application has been updated again to provide additional capabilities to manage Azure AD. You can now: Manage your users in Azure AD with access to the user
Earlier in July 2022, Microsoft has made generally available a new compute series – Azure confidential virtual machine (DCasv5 and ECasv5) (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview/). Today, this Azure confidential virtual machine series is made available in preview for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Support for confidential virtual machine is available for Windows 11 22H2 hosts; support
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