Tag Archives: Automation

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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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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A simple Health-check / Inventory Dashboard for WVD

Summary:

Last few weeks have been immensely busy for our VDI teams across the globe trying to help out customers adopt into solutions for remote access, a major one among this being the Windows Virtual Desktop!!! . As part of this, one of the biggest problems for customers is to manage the Windows Virtual Desktop. … Read More