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.
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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.
Continue reading “Windows Virtual Desktop Validation Host Pools”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.
Continue reading “Windows Virtual Desktop Spring Update”Azure Files SMB Access with Windows AD allows you to access file shares in Azure with NTFS access control. By default, that access won’t extend to an on-prem network over VPN or Express Route. This video shows how to extend access to an Azure Files share with Windows AD to an on-premises network using Private Endpoints.
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Azure Files allows you to access file shares in Azure, but until recently use was restricted to RBAC permission. Azure Files SMB Access for Azure AD Domain Services is generally available and support for Windows AD is now in public preview. This video goes over how to enable Azure Files for SMB access secured with your on-premises Windows AD Directory Services.
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