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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The Microsoft Print to PDF printer should be enabled by default on any Windows 11 PC. I don’t rely on this printer and don’t know many people who do, but it’s a nice bonus to have it available, and some users rely on it. If the print to PDF printer is not enabled, it’s usually
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If you didn’t already know, per user MFA can cause issues when connecting to Entra-Joined Azure virtual machines. Specifically, AVD and Windows 365 instances. When this happens, you will get an error when signing in like this: That error is almost always pointing to one of two things: I had an interesting situation where we
I do a lot of testing for clients and prospects with Azure, Intune, and Autopilot. Although I do the vast majority of my testing using Hyper-V VMs (I made a post about this here for quickly provisioning machines – Use Hyper-V and PowerShell to quickly spin up Windows test machines – SMBtotheCloud), sometimes there is
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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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A few months ago I had to deploy the SonicWall Global VPN client and configuration using Intune. The blog post on that is here – Deploy the SonicWall Global VPN client + Configuration Settings with Intune – SMBtotheCloud. Recently, some of these devices started experiencing general slowness on websites and apps that required internet access.
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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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