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 …
My journey to Microsoft MVP
I have been thinking of writing a post about this for a while now, and now seems a perfect time to write it. Note this isn’t a look at me post, this is just my personal story and an example of what can be achieved when we really set our minds to something, no matter …
WVD Weekly blogpost 5th April–12th April
Hello and welcome to the 2nd Windows Virtual Desktop weekly blog post. In this post we will highlight anything that’s happened in the past 7 Days in the world of Windows Virtual Desktop! (WVD). I had very good feedback from the first one which you can view here – https://www.virtualmanc.co.uk/2020/04/05/wvd-weekly-newsletter-30th-march-5th-april-2020/ It’s been another pretty busy …
WVD Weekly newsletter 30th March–5th April 2020
Hello and welcome to the very first Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) weekly blog post!! I will be publishing a blog post every Sunday (well that’s the plan!!) . It will contain a summary of the WVD news, announcements and activities during the week. I will be summarising updates from Microsoft, WVD community tweets and also …
Deploying MCS Managed VDI Desktops in Citrix Cloud
Hey folks!! I hope you are all keeping well in these horrible times are currently experiencing. I recently did a presentation at the UK Citrix User Group on the topic of leveraging Citrix to deploy VDI Desktops in the cloud, so I figured I had better actually deploy some VDI Desktops in the Cloud using …
Getting up and running with Windows Virtual Desktop
Hey folks, in this post I am going to go over the steps required to get up and running with Windows Virtual Desktop. I have recently started a new position where I am working with WVD a lot, so I am setting up my own little test environment. I thought I would document what I …
Getting up and running with Citrix User Personalization Layering
In this post I am going to show you how to get up and running with Citrix User Personalization Layer (UPL) and a quick test to show it working. So lets get stuck in! So what is Citrix User Personalization Layering and what problem does it solve?? We have 2 types of desktops that we …
Upgrading Active Directory from 2012 R2 to 2019
Hi folks, this is a very quick post where I will explain the steps to upgrade Active Directory from 2012 R2 to 2019. If you are still running 2012 R2 you will be missing out on some of the features to integrate your on-prem AD into Azure Active Directory so its definitely a requirement to …
Creating an Azure AD Tenant and configuring AD Connect
Hey folks, welcome to the second part in this series of blog posts discussing Azure AD. Part 1 can be found here – https://www.virtualmanc.co.uk/2019/12/27/active-directory-authentication-the-past-present-and-future/ In this post we will be creating an Azure AD Tenant and then installing AD Connect to perform a sync. We will perform the following: 1) Create an Azure AD Tenant …
Active Directory & Authentication–The past, present and future
Hey folks, this is the first post of a series of blog posts I am planning to write which discuss the various infrastructure requirements when designing and configuring a VDI or DaaS infrastructure. I will discuss stuff like Active Directory, Authentication, Networking, Storage, Profile Management, VM Specs etc etc. I will try to keep it …