Reading Time: 12 minutes7 This is part 4 of my Always On VPN series You can review the pervious posts if required: Introduction The infrastructure you have in its current state is great if you’re still running everything from a Domain Joined perspective. If you are, then why? I don’t mean to sound patronising , pushing, arrogant, or maybe […]
Continue readingAlways On VPN Entra Join – Part 3 Core Always On VPN Infrastructure
Reading Time: 16 minutes9 This is part 3 of my Always On VPN series You can review the pervious posts if required: Introduction Now we have the certificates available the next step is to configure the certificates and then deploy and configure the servers. This part of the series will cover off configuring the certificates on the servers, installing […]
Continue readingAlways On VPN Entra Join – Part 2 Certificate Templates
Reading Time: 10 minutes6 This is part 2 of my Always On VPN series You can review the pervious posts if required: Introduction Certificates are at the heart of Always On VPN as this is what is used to authenticate the user. Group Policy needs to be updated when deploying the certificates to servers and users via Active Directory. […]
Continue readingAlways On VPN Entra Join – Part 1 Whats needed
Reading Time: 4 minutes2 This is part 1 of my Always On VPN series You can review the pervious posts if required: Introduction Always on VPN is a technology thats been around for some time now almost 10 years or so. It replaced Direct Access that enabled Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (oh and 8) Enterprise clients to connect […]
Continue readingMicrosoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition
Reading Time: 8 minutes5 Introduction I recently with picked up a Microsoft Surface Laptop with Copilot. I wanted to go throguh my frustrations with it to get a clean install of Windows 11 on there. It took a lot of trial and error, but I got there in the end. So if you are wanting to do a clean […]
Continue readingMac OS connecting to Windows 365 and AVD
Reading Time: 8 minutes5 Introduction You may have seen from some of my posts on here and also on my YouTube channel I have been doing a lot about Windows 365 and AVD. You may have also noticed that I mainly use a Mac. Again, this is not a post about which device is better Mac or Windows Device, […]
Continue readingVirtual PAW – Part 4 – Completing the basic setup
Reading Time: 7 minutes4 So this is part 4 of my multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW.. Introduction In this part I’ll go through what I did to complete the basic setup, this will then enable you to log on to the Azure Virtual Desktop PAW’s from the […]
Continue readingVirtual PAW – Part 3 – Deploying the session hosts
Reading Time: 10 minutes7 So this is the 3rd part of a multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW.. Introduction Welcome to the 3rd installment of my multipart series on using a virtual/cloud PAW. By now you have hopefully deployed the core components for AVD, the Host pool, the […]
Continue readingVirtual PAW – Part 2 – Core Components
Reading Time: 10 minutes9 So this is the 2nd part of a multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW. Part One was the high level overview of what I have done. Introduction Welcome to the 2nd installment of my posts on using AVD as a PAW. It is probably […]
Continue readingVirtual PAW – Part 1 – A high level overview
Reading Time: 11 minutes7 I have decided to create this as a multi part post to hopefully make it easier to understand. Introduction So Following on from my last post I thought I’d share how I actually went about deploying my AVD environment as a PAW. This post is a high level overview of what I have done. The […]
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