Reading Time: 12 minutes9 Welcome to the first deep dive in my Zero Trust blog series. If you’ve read the series introduction, you’ll know that Zero Trust isn’t a single product or a quick fix it’s a strategic approach that touches every part of your digital environment. Over the coming posts, I’ll be breaking down each of the core […]
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Reading Time: 14 minutes11 Introduction Over the past few years, I’ve seen a growing interest in Zero Trust but also a lot of confusion. Many still view it as a product you can buy or a feature you can switch on. In reality, Zero Trust is a mindset a strategic approach to security that requires continuous verification, least privilege access, […]
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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: 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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Reading Time: 6 minutes4 Introduction Following on from my previous post I have been asked why I use a PAW for my own tenant, and or why not just use a conditional access policy to ensure that a compliant device for the tenant is used by the privileged user. So, I reply with the question, why wouldn’t you want […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes2 I’m trying to “lead by example” (I use that term loosely), when it comes to privileged access. A bit of background For a long time my regular Microsoft 365 account was also my GA account in my own tenant, I know, I know thats top of the no no’s when it comes to Entra, but, […]
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