Introduction Nerdio recently released two very very powerful features which integrate together to enable complete automation capability for Windows Virtual Desktop with the click of a few buttons. These two features are Scripted Actions, and GitHub Integration. The GitHub integration capacity enables us to link our existing GitHub repositories which may contain all of your …
Do you want to improve the performance of your AVD hosts for no extra cost?
In my day job, I am lucky to get the chance to do a deep dive into many different customers’ Azure Virtual Desktop environments. For those environments which have been around for a while, and even the more recently deployed ones, I always see people deploying v3 VMs instead of the latest generation v5 SKU’s. …
Do I need Premium SSD for my Azure Virtual Desktop Workloads???
With most Azure Virtual Desktop environments I work with, people default to Premium SSD as their default managed disk for their session hosts. Most of the time, this is the correct solution to go for, especially for multi-session workloads. If using single-session workloads, I normally recommend Standard SSD Disks. However, most people are actually unaware, …
Fair Share CPU Scheduling on Windows 10 Multi-Session
Kasper Johansen recently asked a question on the WVD Community slack channel to see if CP Fair Sharing was supporting on Windows 10 Multi-Session. I wasn’t quite sure so I thought I would do a bit of testing and it doe indeed seem to be supported. What is CPU Fair Share?? So what is CPU …
AZ-140 Windows Virtual Desktop Speciality Study Guide
This week Microsoft announced the AZ-140 exam which will be released in March. In this page I will include links so help you study to pass this exam!! Microsoft generally builds their exams from the docs pages so I will try and include any links that I find, as well as external links. The description …
Getting Started with Nerdio – Part 1 – Image Creation
Introduction Hello everyone!! I recently accepted a position with Nerdio to become their UK Field CTO. I was not really looking for a new position but I have followed Nerdio’s journey since they released Nerdio Manager for WVD and I was extremely impressed with the product, the people and the passion that they all have. …
End of Year Review 2020
Every year I try to write an end of year review, mostly I find it a good way to reflect on the previous year, and it’s also good to write down in words so you can look back at it. It is also a chance to think and reflect, and what we can set out …
Configuring Zoom for WVD
Introduction During the COVID19 pandemic we have seen a large proportion of the workforce working from home, which has lead to a huge increase of video conferencing, instead of face to face meetings. Zoom and Microsoft Teams are two of the most popular clients used. Zoom has gone from 10 million daily users in December …
Configuring Visual Studio Code for WVD
Hey everyone. In this post I am going to show you how to install Visual Studio Code, install the Azure plugin and then connect to our WVD environment and run some basic commands. So let’s get started! Installing Visual Studio Code First of all we need to download Visual Studio Code from here – https://code.visualstudio.com/ …
Using PowerShell with WVD Part 1
Hi everyone, this post in a series of posts which I am looking to write around different methods of interacting with Windows Virtual Desktop via different methods. I am hoping to explore PowerShell, JSON, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, DevOps, Pipelines etc. We will create host pools, build images, use Image Builder and a whole load of …