Tom Hickling articles
Tom Hickling
Windows Virtual Desktop Global Black Belt
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How to deploy Linux in WVD when you can’t deploy Linux in WVD
In my role as a Windows Virtual Desktop Global Black Belt at Microsoft working with customers deploying WVD, I often get asked can we deploy Linux in WVD? The answer is no, but yes. The official answer is we don’t support Linux.
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What are the top methods to deploy a Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we are seeing a significant increase in working from home, as well as massive demand for new Windows Virtual Desktop host pools, where organisations are increasing the infrastructure foot print in order to support these additional users.
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Create a corporate URL for the Windows Virtual Desktop Website, Part 2 Azure Front Door
In Part one of this topic I showed how you could redirect a corporate URL to the WVD URL, so that your users would only need to remeber or bookmark a familar URL. That was using a few lines of code and an Azure Function app: https://www.microsoft.
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How to dynamically update session hosts in an existing host pool
Do you have an existing Windows Virtual Desktop where you want to replace the session host virtual machines with new images? You could build a new host pool with the new session host VM’s and present the new icon to users and get them to test and then switch them over.
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Drinking our own Windows Virtual Desktop champagne.
So my laptop packed up over the weekend, and that gave me the opportunity to actually walk the walk rather than just talking about Windows Virtual Desktop and Azure, actually drinking our own champagne.
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Create a corporate URL for the Windows Virtual Desktop Website
The current Windows Virtual Desktop HTML5 client is currently accessed using a Microsoft URL which is reasonably long and also is the exact same for every customer: https://rdweb.wvd.microsoft.com/webclient/index.
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