New! Azure Spot Virtual Machine
Azure Spot Virtual Machines are an IaaS server option offered at a deep discount compared to pay-as-you-go and Reserved Instance pricing. This video walks
Author: Travis Roberts
Automatically Start and Stop WVD VM’s with Azure Automation
One value proposition of any cloud service is consumption-based pricing, only paying for services when used. Consumption-based pricing is an advantage of Windows Virtual
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Load Balancing
In this video, I go over the two options for WVD Load Balancing, Depth-First and Breadth-First. I also demonstrate how each distributes new connections
Create Application Groups, Publish Applications and Set Access in WVD
In this video, I go over how to create application groups in Windows Virtual Desktop. Once created, I add start menu applications to the
Git for the Lone Scripter – Fork, Branch & Merge
In my first post, I made the bold statement that I would leave Branch and Fork out of this series because as a Sysadmin
Update an WVD Application Group Based on a Windows AD Security Group
One unfortunate aspect of working with Windows Virtual Desktop is the inability to assign users to an Application Group based on group management. Microsoft
Remove-Hostpool Script
Over the past few months I’ve created and removed many Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pools for testing. Removing a WVD Host Pool can be
Windows Virtual Server and Active Directory Requirements (and Azure Files While I’m At It)
EDIT 11/16/2016 – This information is outdated. WVD now supports Azure AD Domain Services with users sourced from Windows Server AD. I spent hours
