Category: Azure

Image Builder and WVD Session Hosts with One Azure DevOps Pipeline

Posted on by Travis Roberts

This video picks up where the last two DevOps videos left off.  We use one Azure DevOps Pipeline and multiple jobs to build an updated image with Azure Image Builder, then deploy new Virtual Machines, Windows Virtual Desktop Session Hosts in this example, with the updated image.  We also go over addressing Image Builder failures in the DevOps pipeline.

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Deploy Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Session Hosts with Azure DevOps

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In this video, we go over using an Azure DevOps pipeline to automate building and Deploying Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Session Hosts.  This Azure DevOps tutorial builds on previous videos and demonstrates how to use Azure ARM Templates and parameter files to deploy WVD Session Hosts.  Next, the ARM template and parameter file is used in an Azure DevOps pipeline along with PowerShell and Azure Key Vault secretes to securely automate the deployment of Session Hosts based on the latest Shared Image Gallery (SIG) image.

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My Experience with the AZ-140 Exam

Posted on by Travis Roberts
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I had the pleasure of taking the new AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure beta exam this morning.  I thought I would take a few minutes to write up my experience with the exam.  Before we get started, if you are looking for a brain dump or specific questions and answers, you won’t find that here. 

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Azure DevOps Pipeline and Image Builder

Posted on by Travis Roberts

In this video, we go over using an Azure DevOps pipeline to automate the image build process with Azure Image Builder.  This Azure DevOps tutorial goes over using Azure DevOps with VS Code to manage files.  We then build a YAML pipeline with Azure CLI, ARM template deployments and PowerShell to build an image.

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Azure DevOps, Git and VS Code

Posted on by Travis Roberts

This video provides an introduction to using Azure DevOps Git repos with VS Code.  We go over installing and configuring Git, then cloning a repo to the local workstation.  We also go over using Git Push to push changes to the DevOps repo and using Git Pull to update the local repo with remote changes.

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High Performance at a Low Price for WVD

Posted on by Travis Roberts

In this post and accompanying video, we go over the benefits and considerations of using ephemeral disks with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Session Hosts.  We review the performance improvements as well as limitations that come with ephemeral disks, including the inability to deallocate Session Hosts.  Next, we examine Azure Reserved Instances and how they can be used to keep the cost of Session Hosts down without using an auto scale solution.

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Get Azure Scheduled Events with IMDS

Posted on by Travis Roberts

In this video, we go over how to get scheduled events for an Azure virtual machine by querying the Instance Metadata service API endpoint with a PowerShell Scheduled Task.  That data is then sent to a Log Analytics Workspace to be queried or alerted on.

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