Andy Kemp

Automate Your Elgato Key Light Air with Microsoft Teams Presence

August 11, 2025 Andy

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...

OpenVPN Site-to-Site setup

July 12, 2025 Andy

Setting up a Site-to-Site VPN is a powerful way to securely link two remote networks—such as a home lab and a cloud environment—so they behave as if they’re on the same local...

Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop – A Modular, Automated Approach

June 8, 2025 Andy

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...

Virtual PAW – Part 4 – Completing the basic setup

March 23, 2025 Andy

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...

Virtual PAW – Part 3 – Deploying the session hosts

February 27, 2025 Andy

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...

Virtual PAW – Part 2 – Core Components

February 18, 2025 Andy

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...

Virtual PAW – Part 1 – A high level overview

February 14, 2025 Andy

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...

Securing my privileged access with AVD

January 15, 2025 Andy

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...

Cost effective IPSec Site to Site VPN with Azure and UDM

June 9, 2024 Andy

There are many ways to establish a VPN between my UDM and Azure andI’ve tried them all, but, for the best result I would still recommend using an Azure Virtual...