A blog about End User Computing (EUC)
This blog post is about excluding users from FSLogix for Intune-only Managed AVD. I got a question about this via a comment on another post. That post is about how to configure FSLogix for Entra Joined AVD hosts. Furthermore, it also explains how to set NTFS permissions for a storage account that is not domain-joined. … Read more
If you want to change the display resolution for a Windows VM in Proxmox, you can’t do it from the Windows VM itself. You see something like this: The option to change the display resolution is greyed out. How annoying is that? So, what you can is change the resolution in the BIOS. I couldn’t … Read more
I recently moved my home lab from VMware to Proxmox, the next thing was to test Windows Autopilot but I concluded that I missed the serial number for the Virtual Machine. That led me to the fact that I couldn’t upload the hardware hash to Microsoft Intune/Windows Autopilot. The recent stuff that is going on … Read more
A customer of mine is using Trend Micro as their security suite. They found out that Windows Defender for Server was still running actively, and they wanted to have it in passive mode. I couldn’t find a blog that contained all the steps. So, I decided to write it down myself. This is the article … Read more
I was implementing Packer at a client of mine and I stumbled upon a new authentication type for Packer. You can pass the Azure CLI logon to Packer. This has the advantage that you don’t need to manage credentials for your Packer pipeline in Azure DevOps to run on Microsoft Azure. I was skeptical at … Read more
An AVD deployment is often joined to Intune. This results in a compliance state in Intune used in Conditional Access for access to Microsoft 365 applications. We don’t want users logging onto AVD machines that aren’t compliant hence the DrainMode dependent on Compliance. Also, AVD deployments are often Hybrid Entra Joined. That comes with the … Read more
This is a blog post about how to schedule a PowerShell script via Intune. Of course, we would like this to be built-in within Microsoft Intune but we are not there yet. Hopefully, this will be an option in the future. We would like to schedule app installs and scripts via Microsoft Intune directly. We … Read more
This is a quick short blog about these error codes: FSLogix error code 0x0000052E The user profile failed to attach. Please contact supportStatus: 0x0000001B, Message: cannot find the virtual disk at the provided locationReason: 0x00000005, Message: Reason initialized to empty stateError code: 0x0000052E, Message: The user name or password is incorrect. You will see this … Read more
I am currently investigating whether joining AVD only to Entra is an option. One of the subjects is FSLogix on Entra Joined AVD hosts. Using FS Logix on Entra Joined AVD hosts with proper NTFS permissions on the share is possible. You can use this doc from Microsoft Learn to do so: Microsoft Doc It … Read more
This blog post is creating an Azure DevOps library group via Powershell. I like to use the library group feature within Azure DevOps but there is one big downside. The library group doesn’t have version history. When someone in your team makes a change to the library group, the previous version is not available, So, … Read more