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…
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RDP Multipath Goes Global For AVD & Windows 365
Microsoft announced RDP Multipath as generally available on the 23rd July 2025 and the phased rollout is now complete as of November 2025. RDP Multipath is fully deployed for Azure…
TURN Relay Goes Global For AVD & Windows 365
Microsoft announced on the 2nd June 2025 that it would expand Traversal Using Relays around NAT (short TURN) relay for Azure Virtual Desktop (short AVD) and Windows 365 (short W365).…
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…
My Struggle With The Basic Public IP Migration On VPN Gateways
By 30th September 2025, Basic SKU public IP addresses will be officially retired. Although the Azure Updates note states that existing Basic SKU public IP addresses won’t be affected immediately,…
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…
Securing Azure DevOps With Workload Identity Federation
Azure DevOps, by default, lacks a direct link to services or platforms to authenticate and authorize without proper configuration. To establish a secure connection to both internal and external services,…
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…