Reading Time: 6 minutes5 Introduction If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably joined a video call only to realise your lighting isn’t quite right. I use an Elgato Key Light Air, and I wanted it to turn on automatically when I joined a Microsoft Teams meeting—and off when I left. No more fumbling for the app or a physical […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes9 Introduction Like many home users, my broadband connection comes with a dynamically assigned public IP address. This means that my IP can change at any time sometimes without notice, which can be a problem when I want to access services hosted at home, like a self-hosted server or VPN. Instead of relying on a third-party Dynamic […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutes7 Introduction Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is Microsoft’s comprehensive Desktop-as-a-Service platform, enabling secure remote access to Windows desktops and apps from virtually anywhere. While powerful, deploying AVD in a robust, enterprise-ready manner can be complex: it requires careful orchestration of network, identity, security, storage, and user access. Manual configuration is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale or […]
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