Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction From my last blog post link https://alven.tech/azure-image-builder-or-packer-for-wvd/ , I used a JSON packer template, and I promised a new blog post regarding how to upgrade to HCL2. HashiCorp recommends using the HCL2 as from version 1.7.0, so it’s about time, I finally do the switch! The documentation Packer is really good, so I will basically just follow along with their documentation to see If…
Azure Virtual Desktop Published Application and Scaling issues with DPI
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction To scale or not to scale, that’s today’s question with Azure Virtual Desktop Lately, I have had a compelling problem with Azure Virtual Desktop where a customer had problems with scaling a Line of business application (LOB) as a published application. Text, icons, and fonts became blurry, especially for users who only used laptops as the primary screen, and changing back and forth between…
Troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop Monitoring
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction I was recently involved in a project to troubleshoot some performance issues on Azure Virtual Desktop related to some users who reported connection error “The remote resource can’t be reached” Check your connection and try again” when connecting to Azure Virtual Desktop. When the user connected 2-3 times they could eventually connect. So I naturally started the troubleshooting by looking into Azure Monitor Insights…
Azure Image Builder or Packer for Azure Virtual Desktop
Reading Time: 9 minutes Introduction So you’re in the situation seeking to automate Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) image creation. You have discovered Packer and Azure Image Builder, but do not know which to use. Hopefully, I will as short as possible try to make sense of the differences, and why you fancy one of them depending on your scenario. Lucky for you it’s no wrong answer, the secret is…
0x80004005 office shared computer activation with Windows Virtual Desktop
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was recently involved in troubleshooting shared computer activation with Office on a WVD hostpool image using the latest 20h2-evd-o365pp-g2 image sku and Microsoft 365 Business Premium for Office. To start with the Troubleshooting this was the only error that occurred for end user trying to activate. account issue error code 0x80004005 The Image was using “20h2-evd-o365pp-g2″ from the Azure gallery image. So all the…
FEITIAN Contactless reader with FIDO2
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I had some fun with the FEITIAN Contactless Reader Demo with FIDO2. https://www.ftsafe.com/Products/Card_Reader/Contactless Created a short demo to showcase how it can be used with the FIDO2 in Azure AD using an NFC security key. looks like a good use case for shared devices or multi-user device. Use Coupon CODE Stein-20 when you buy, this will support my channel and give you some discount! 🙂…
Passwordless Journey
Reading Time: < 1 minutes In November 2020, the annual internal Techon was held at my employer. This was my first live stream using workplace by Facebook which was also the first session I have had in a conference style. It was a really nice experience learning more about the streaming opportunities with OBS and my stream deck. I had nicely added all the scenes during the presentation. Even though…
Windows Virtual Desktop with ARM and Azure DevOps
Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction In this post we will cover how to setup Windows Virtual Desktop ARM template with Azure DevOps. We walkthrough 2 different ARM templates. I’m using the ARM WVD templates from Microsoft: https://github.com/Azure/RDS-Templates/tree/master/ARM-wvd-templates that came earlier in 2020. CreateAndProvisionHostPool AddVirtualMachinesToHostPool Figure 1: Visualized DevOps Workflow ARM pipelines In Figure 1, we can see that the Azure DevOps build pipeline is integrated with Azure Key Vault…
Bitwarden and Yubikey
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction Password Managers is still a necessity in 2020, and will be for a long time. I’ve been using Bitwarden with YubiKeys for a while now, so it was about time to share some experience, and how easy it’s to get started. Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/ is an Open Source Password Manager that is hosted on GitHub https://github.com/bitwarden. This means that you have full control over source…
Intune – MEM – Configure Edge browser for iOS and Android
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s Time to Move to EDGE Mobile! Back in November 2019 the Managed browser was announced to be retired March 31 2020. Already from February 1, 2020, the Intune Managed Application was going to removed from Google Play Store and iOS App Store. Since March is right around the corner, it’s about time to get prepared to do the switch. Regarding a smooth transition, Microsoft…
