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, …
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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/ …
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 …
Configuring Azure Site-to-Site VPN with Draytek 2860 router
To keep the costs of my Azure subscription down I still wanted to run some resources on my existing home lab rather than shift everything into AWS or Azure as I found this would be quite an expensive thing to do!! The solution I have put in place is to extend my home lab into …
Connecting to Azure App MySQL Instance remotely
I recently made a mistake on my WordPress site which left me unable to let me into the Admin console. Big boo boo!! After a bit of research I found the solution which was to go into the MySQL Database and edit some fields on the WordPress database. Now, on a normal WordPress hosted site …
Configuring SSL on Azure Web App custom URL
In my previous post I went through the steps to configure WordPress on Azure. In this post I will configure a SSL Certificate for the custom URL that was configured. This is a multistep process which involves: Creating the certificate Creating a Keyvault Importing the certificate into the Keyvault Assigning the certificate to the App …
Migrating WordPress to Azure App
I recently migrated my WordPress blog over to Azure as I was getting frustrated with the lack of control and there was a issue with PHP versioning that my hosting provider couldn’t seem to resolve. The process was ridiculously easy so I thought I would document the steps here if somebody is thinking about doing …