Azure Temp storage and Page file review If you do any work with Azure Virtual Machines, you have probably run into VM SKUs that contain a temporary storage disk. These are VMs with a “d” in the name (e.g. – D4ds). Many people don’t know what they’re for or why they are even an option. […]
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If you’re running virtual servers in Azure, it’s a good idea to explore removing your servers in favor of PaaS/SaaS solutions. Running VMs is often more expensive, and you have more overhead and maintenance. With that said, VMs are still very common, and oftentimes, migrating existing VMs to Azure is one of the first steps
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If you’re using Entra Connect and you’re planning to eliminate Active Directory, you’ll eventually need to remove Entra Connect and convert all users to cloud-managed identities. Entra Connect synchronizes your AD identities with Entra, giving the users a cloud identity in addition to their on-prem identity. However, AD remains the source of authority for management.
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There’s no shortage of posts regarding updating the background and lock screen images for your endpoints. The question that usually comes up is how to do this on Windows 10/11 Pro. This is because the Intune device restriction policy makes adding background/lock screen images easy, but it’s only compatible with Windows Enterprise/Edu SKUs. If that
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If you’re reading this, you probably know what Azure Site Recovery is (ASR). At a high level, ASR is a disaster recovery solution that replicates workloads on your Azure VMs or Physical on-prem servers to a secondary Azure Region. This allows you to failover your production workloads to the secondary region with minimal downtime. Configuring
I recently had an issue with an AVD client, where the time zone on AVD hosts randomly changed to the US Central time zone, even though the Time Zone was configured to MST with Intune. Adding a scheduled task to set the time zone at user login still didn’t completely resolve the issue. Users still
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I recently inherited an existing Hybrid-Join Intune tenant and had a unique situation where I needed to use Azure to test Autopilot. Since this was a new client and an environment I was not familiar with, I needed to put my disdain for hybrid-join aside and help determine if Hybrid-Join Autopilot was still functioning. Yes,
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The most common AVD setup is a pooled configuration with FSLogix. This means that you have two or more session hosts and a group of many users who connect to those hosts. FSLogix handles the user profiles, so it doesn’t matter which session host the user connects to. Their profile is mounted to whichever host
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