Author Archives: Surendra Dhondale

About Surendra Dhondale

A Truly Passionate IT Guy, leveraging skills learned over years to provide the best solutions/answers for difficult IT questions!! Knowledge Areas/Skill Summary: - Technology Leadership - Technology Transformation - Technical Consulting - Solution Architecture - Infrastructure Design - DevOps - EUS/EUC expert - Data Science, ML / AI - Passionate about Automation / Scripting - Programming

Importance Of Data Visualization

As each organization’s data grows bigger and spreads across multiple data sources containing data sets from a wide range of toolsets, applications, user data.. and on top of all this, data coming from multiple geographic locations + cloud + on-premises – it becomes more difficult for business owners to interpret the data and take confident

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The Pomodoro Technique

A Simple But Powerful Tool for Productivity.

Have you ever found yourself struggling to focus on a task, constantly getting distracted and unable to make progress? It’s a common problem in today’s fast-paced world, where there are endless distractions vying for our attention. But what if there was a simple, effective tool that could help … Read More

Planning Azure Update Manager Deployment

Overview: 

Azure Update Manager has been around for a while, however recently I had a chance to deploy this in production. Sharing my experience with this amazing product which can be a perfect alternative if

  • you have WSUS servers, SCCM servers that are specifically used for patching. 
  • you are looking to consolidate servers across
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Deploying WVD as a Code.. Thoughts..


Deploying WVD as a code, Why though?

Number of organizations are considering Deploying WVD as a code, a lot of factors are leading in to this. WVD is a perfect VDI solution that has the right elements for organizations to consider their own private DAAS solution for their end users. What are those elements you

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A simple Health-check / Inventory Dashboard for WVD – ARM

Summary:

Based on the feedback received on the previous Healthcheck / inventory dashboard Script . an updated script for the spring update of windows virtual desktop has been developed.

This dashboard provides an inventory / basic checks output in an html format which can be further utilised to understand the WVD infrastructure’s state. Customers may

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Azure Pipeline – Deploying WVD Session Hosts to Availability Zones vs Availability Sets

Summary:

The official Windows Virtual Desktop ARM template provides a way to add Session hosts into Availability Sets for HA. However is Availability Sets just enough for a large WVD deployment? it just might not be the case. That is why I modified the ARM template such that the Session Hosts so created to join

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Azure Pipeline – Starting a Percentage of VMs in the HostPool At the Start of Business

Over the last few weeks, we have been extensively writing pipelines and codes for deployment of Windows Virtual Desktop for our customers.

One of the business requirement was to ensure that a pipeline runs everyday at around 7am to ensure that there is enough capacity of VMs during the start of business in cases where

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Azure Pipeline – Import WVD Hostpool Token into Azure Secrets

Creating WVD Session Hosts and adding them to the Hostpool requires a token, Once the Hostpool is created through the Azure pipeline, there is a chance that organization norms may not allow Hostpooltoken to be generated and kept open for long time as this may cause problems. So, this article is about how you can

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Deploying the WVD POC under 30 minutes – Powershell


Summary

Creating a VDI infrastructure using traditional methods is a thing of the past! VDI the very word is all about Efficiency, Speed, Productivity. Hence we have put together list of all powershell commands that should help you deploy a WVD infrastructure framework in just under 30 minutes! For this to work as claimed.. first!

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FSLogix App Masking Guide for Citrix / Any Hosted Shared Desktops

Summary

FSLogix App has been around for a while, and it is one of the products that we love to talk about more and more! Reason for this is that it just made so many aspects of a Shared Infrastructure easy!! We worked on a couple of scenarios where customers had use cases to deploy

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