A blog about End User Computing (EUC)
New Post. This time a script I wrote for a customer to figure out how to get the last logon for a Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) user. Prerequisites You must have the diagnostics settings for an Azure Virtual Desktop configured. Check out Microsoft Learn on how to do so. Of course, you must already have … Read more
Second part of the series! This part is about linking all required resources to nerdio via PSNerdio. So, in the previous part of this series I mentioned that the PowerShell module created by Nerdio needs some love. I wanted to link my resourcegroups to Nerdio and that CMDlet was not working. So, I’m going to … Read more
I must admit that I wasn’t a big fan of Nerdio. My opinion was that everybody must learn IAC (Infrastructure as code). The simple truth is that is never going to happen. And that’s why Nerdio is so successful. So, after I visited a Nerdio workshop I decided I am going to deploy Nerdio from … Read more
So, quick blog about the situation where you can’t create an AVD hostpooltoken. A bicep API version causes this error. This is the error you see in the Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool portal: This is the error stated by the portal: Error: Cannot retrieve token for Hostpool ‘hostpoolname’ because it is not of Hostpool management … Read more
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
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 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 post is about automating the cleanup for Entra Joined Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) hosts. So, what is the problem? The problem is that when you frequently deploy Entra Joined AVD hosts, they are only Entra Joined, and they already exist Entra/Intune. You get this error when running the bicep template: That error is because … Read more