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. …
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Integrating your GitHub Repo’s with Nerdio
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
I have taken my last IT Certification
August 11, 1999. My daughter was 1 year old, I had just bought my first house and I was around 2 years into my first IT job. That was also the day that I passed my first IT Certification – Implementing and Supporting NT 4.0 Workstation. That kick started a 20 year cycle of continual …
Making your XenApp/XenDesktop deployment LTSR Compliant using LTSR Assistant
Hey folks!! A few customers have recently been asking about the LTSR Components as they find themselves coming out of support of their existing environments. So what is LTSR?? LTSR is the “Long Term Service Release” from Citrix. These are specific components for which Citrix will offer much longer support times than the “Current Release” …
NetScaler 12 VPX consuming 100% CPU when running on VMware vSphere 6.5 host
Hey folks I recently deployed a NetScaler 12 VPX appliance onto a vSphere 6.5 environment and came across an issue where the appliance seemed to be running at 100% CPU even though it wasn’t doing anything. This didn’t seem right so I did a big of digging and it turns out it is a …