This is the fourth video in a series on setting up the new Azure Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop service (WVD). In this video, I do a step-by-step walkthrough of the prerequisites for FSLogix Profile management. After that, I configuring a template OS with FSLogix to use for a host pool deployment. Next, I verify profiles stay consistent between user logins in different VM’s in the host pool.
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It has been about two weeks since the Azure Windows Virtual Desktop preview was announced. I have had several people ask about a specific issue when adding Windows Virtual Desktops to a domain during the provisioning process. The error is related to adding the new hosts to the Active Directory Domain and the message looks like below, indicating the “VM has reported a failure when processing extension ‘joindomain’’
Continue reading “VM has reported a failure when processing extension ‘joindomain’”This is the second video in a series on setting up the new Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop service (WVD). I start by going over some key concepts and terms needed to understand WVD. Next, I cover the different options for load balancing in WVD and give a demo on how to configure each. After that, I go over requirements of configuring users for accessing remote applications with a step-by-step walkthrough on adding applications to Remote Apps.
Continue reading “Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Load Balancing and Remote Application”In this video I do a walk through of setting up the new Microsoft Azure service, Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I start by comparing WVD with Remote Desktop Services (RDS). After that, I give a tutorial on setting up the tenant, adding the PowerShell Modules required to configure the service, and finally walk through deploying a host pool from the Azure Marketplace and logging in with the HTML5 client. This service is an alternative to Remote Desktop Services. It uses a PaaS offering to replace the RD Web, RD Gateway and Connection Broker. Windows 10 1809 multi user or Windows 7 is used to host remote desktop sessions.
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This week I started working with Logic Apps. I have a project with a specific end goal in mind for my first Logic App application. This post will cover the first part of the process, moving data from a webhook to Azure Service Bus with Logic Apps.
Continue reading “Logic App and Service Bus”I have another article published at 4Sysops.com. This one covers a multi-site VM failover using Custom Script Extensions to change OS level settings during failover.
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In this video I show you how to setup Azure Applications Insight. Next, I go over how to add the Azure Application Insights plugin to WordPress and use that to monitor performance, user and availability data.
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