Niels’s technology ramblings
New part of the PSNerdio series! This part is about how to enrich your image using PSNerdio. So, we are adding scripted actions, applications and schedules to the image. This allows you to create a complete image via PSNerdio. Link to the GitHub repo. Other parts of this series: Deploy Nerdio from an IAC perspective … 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
I am currently deploying Windows 365 and want to use a custom image. Firstly, I used the Azure Marketplace Windows 11 22h2 enterprise image. The performance was terrible. I checked again, but I couldn’t find it. I got a hint that you must register the Windows 365 Cloud PC images in your Azure environment. This … Read more
This blogpost is about how to use BICEP to add a new version of your managed image to an AzureComputeGallery. Furthermore, you can do so by using this button in the portal: But we like to automate these actions to save time and remove complexity. Prerequisites We need a managed image as a source. You … 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 3! Part 3 is about the Shared Image Gallery. This is a service within Microsoft Azure to publish images and we are publishing our managed image in the … Read more
This is a blogpost about creating an image from an existing Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure. We are going to snapshot the managed disk of the machine and upload it to a Storage Account. For example, you can use this blog/script to create an image for Citrix Cloud. (The complete script is available at the … Read more