After Microsoft Ignite Special 2025
Last Monday, we attended the After Ignite Special at the Microsoft Office in Zurich, a compact meetup that brought the highlights and announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco…
Posts by Flavio Meyer
Ephemeral OS Disk Support For AVD Now In Public Preview
Ephemeral OS disks are now (October 2025) in public preview for Azure Virtual Desktop (short AVD). If you manage pooled, non-persistent host pools, this preview can significantly speed up session…
Tackling Expiring Entra ID Client Secrets And SAML Certificates
The struggle with managing expiring client secrets/certificates and Security Assertion Markup Language (short SAML) certificates in Entra ID is real and often overlooked. These crucial components are essential for maintaining…
Microsoft Graph Bicep – Part 3
A few months have passed since the last blog post about Microsoft Graph support in Bicep. To be precise, it has been eight months. During this time, there have been…
How To Administer Entra ID-Joined Devices Via TeamViewer
As almost every company adopts modern device management solutions like Microsoft Intune, Service Desks and Support personnel often face challenges when trying to perform administrative tasks on these devices remotely.…
A Late-Night AVD Windows 11 25H2 Update Adventure
In this blog post, I’ll tell you about my struggles just two days after the official release of Windows 11 25H2 on the newly built Azure Virtual Desktop based on…
Azure Disk Encryption – Retirement
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Disk Encryption will be discontinued in September 2028. There is still a long way to go until then, but I would nevertheless like to provide…
Microsoft Dev Box – Retirement
In a brief announcement on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Dev Box will no longer accept new customers as of 1 November 2025. In this short blog…
Meet The Dragon In Entra ID
The Dragon Administrator role – I came across that recently and asked myself if it’s an April Fools’ Day joke or if you can now administer your Minecraft server with…
Default RBAC Roles For Azure Virtual Desktop
As many of your employees or customers continue to embrace virtual desktop environments, Azure Virtual Desktop (short AVD) remains a crucial solution for delivering secure and scalable virtual desktops and…