A blog about End User Computing (EUC)
A couple of months ago a fellow MVP Stephan van Rooij wrote an application called Winget Intune, when I saw this I immediately wanted to use this as a packager in an Azure DevOps Pipeline. So, the idea is to enter a winget package ID and the application is grabbed from winget, packaged, and uploaded … Read more
Packer has announced that classic JSON files are now supported as legacy files. The limitations within classic JSON make it harder to configure the packer template. That’s why Hashicorp has decided to create HCL support for Packer. This blog is about how to convert your Packer JSON File to HCL2 (Hashi Corp Language 2). Furthermore, … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 0! On many request I will write about preparing your Azure/Azure DevOps environment. In addition, this will help you start with part 1. These topics will be discussed … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 5! We built the image, deployed a sessionhost in the previous parts. Next up is converting the Image Pipeline to YAML Pipelines. In addition, YAML pipelines hold all … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 4! We built the image in the past parts. It’s now time to actually built hostpools from our image. So, part 4 is about building hostpools! Prerequisites Part … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 2! Part 2 is about artifacts. Uploading the image variables to an artifact, uploading applications to an artifact, downloading applications from the artifacts and creating artifact feeds. Prerequisites … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 1! Part 1 is about building the Windows 10 machine, sysprepping it and creating an image from it. Prerequisites There are some prerequisites. Firstly, I am assuming that … Read more
This blogpost describes how to add an NSG Rule via an Azure DevOps Pipeline to momentarily give Azure Devops via WinRM access to your Subnet. At this time of writing the “AzureDevOps” service tag which you can use in an NSG rule is not available. This is a workaround to momentarily give Azure DevOps access … Read more
This is a blogpost about a script which performs a Token Refresh for the WVD springrelease ARMTemplate deployment. This normally needs to be entered manually but with this script this token will be refreshed at the start of every deployment. I am talking about this parameter which sits in the ARM Template supplied by Microsoft … Read more
This is a blogpost about a script which initiates a delete request for all resources in a Resource Group, I use this script for deleting WVD hostpools with Powershell. The hostpool resource need to be deleted in an exact order.1. VM’s need to be deleted first.2. After that sessionhosts must delete from the hostpool.3. Then … Read more