In this video, I go over the difference between Azure Business to Business, or B2B and Azure Business to Customer, or B2C. This is a high-level comparison between the two services for those getting ready for an Azure Certification or designing Azure solutions.
Continue reading “Azure B2B vs. B2C”This video goes over how to deploy an Azure VNet Gateway on an existing VNet and enable Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN connections using Azure AD to authenticate the client. A P2S connection allows clients to connect securely to an Azure Gateway and access resources on the private VNet. The video goes on to demonstrate how enable Multi-Factor Authentication with a Conditional Access policy or enforcing MFA per-user.
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I am happy to release an update to my Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Start-Stop script for Windows Virtual Desktop updated for Spring 2020, or “WVD ARM.” This script uses an Azure Function to starts and stops WVD Session hosts in a host pool based on the user load.
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This video goes over how to deploy an Azure VNet Gateway on an existing VNet and enable Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN connections. A P2S connection allows clients to connect securely to an Azure Gateway and access resources on the private VNet. The video goes on to demonstrate how to create a root certificate and client certificates to use for authentication. After that, configuring the client is demonstrated as well as blocking a client by revoking a certificate.
Continue reading “Azure Point-to-Site VPN with Certificate Based Authentication”This video goes over “JoinDomain” error sometimes experienced in Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). The video reviews the requirements for WVD and configuration errors that could lead to the “JoinDomain” error. I give several tips to resolve issues that could cause this error and give a suggestion at the end to help identify if the source of the problem is WVD or the Azure Environment.
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This video goes over how to use Windows Virtual Desktop Validation Host Pools to minimize the impact of Service updates on your production WVD environment as well as use for managing image and application updates.
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I passed the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure certification this past week. I have a few years of experience with Azure, so an Introductory exam was not particularly challenging. The content was not the main reason I took the exam; the big challenge was the venue, my home.
Continue reading “AZ-900 From Home”Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Spring Update is now a full-fledged ARM service. This video reviews changes coming to WVD Spring Update. These changes include much-anticipated enhancements such as an updated portal experience, group-based assignment to Application Groups and Remote Desktop Groups, dedicated scale-out process, a new PowerShell command set and more.
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