Azure

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the hottest tech updates in the worlds of Azure, VMware, and other partners. In this series, we’ll be curating a collection of must-read articles, each offering a deep dive into the latest technological advancements, news, and trends within these cutting-edge platforms.

We understand that in today’s fast-paced tech landscape, staying informed is key. That’s why we’re here to make it easy for you. Each week, we’ll handpick the most insightful and informative articles that cover everything from Cloud, virtualization, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), DevOps to End User Computing breakthroughs.

Without further ado, let’s dive into this week’s top tech insights:

Microsoft Azure

• Choose an Azure compute service. Link
• Announcing the general availability of new Azure burstable virtual machines. Link
• Migration and modernization for Oracle workloads. Link
• Entra News #10: Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra. Link
• Performance Testing with Azure Firewall Basic SK. Link
• David-Summers/Azure-Design: My Azure stencil collection for Visio. Highly functional and always up to date. Link
• PIM, PAM and PAW – what and how in Azure? Link
• Supported Kubernetes versions in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Link
• Get Ahead with Self-Hosted Agents and Container Apps Jobs. Link

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows 365 / VMware Horizon / EUC

• Windows 365 Enterprise – Points of Clarification and PoC Proven Practices. Link
• AVD Automation Cocktail – Azure Virtual Desktop automated with Bicep and Azure CLI. Link
• AVD Community Newsletter – 14th September 2023. Link
• Week 37-2023 VMware Enduser Computing Updates. Link
• Ruben’s EUC Industry Bento Box – September 2023. Link
• FSLogix App Masking YouTube video. Link
• Deploy secure management and monitoring to Azure Virtual Desktop. Link

Intune

• Easily removing access to the Microsoft Store. Link
• Send Intune Discovered apps to Log Analytics with Azure Automation. Link
• Intune: Auto Reconnect Mapped Drives. Link
• Windows Autopilot Testing in VMs: A Step-by-Step Guide! Link
• Intune Newsletter – 15th September 2023. Link
• Endpoint Management Community Newsletter – September 11-17, 2023. Link
• Deploy SentinelOne with Intune. Link

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / DevOps

• Gitops Your Scheduled Tasks. Link
• Introduction to Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation (OIDC) with Terraform. Link
• Azure Deployment using Terraform Cloud – Overview, Prerequisites, Sample Code, and Resources. Link
• A simple example of Windows PowerShell Just Enough Administration (JEA)! Link
• Connect to Microsoft Graph in Azure DevOps Pipelines using Workload Identity Federation. Link
• Streamlining Multi-Component Deployments to Terraform Environments with GitHub Actions Matrices. Link
• Best Practices: 7 Key Benefits of Automated Infrastructure Deployment. Link
• Terraform Cloud pricing. Link
• Build image with containerized self-hosted Azure DevOps agent and private Azure Container Registry. Link

Microsoft Defender

• Common mistakes during Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployments. Link

Vembu

• BDRSuite now offers agentless backup and recovery for KVM virtual machines, seamlessly integrated with KVM hypervisor. Link

VMware

• Bulk Deploy UAGs. Link
• Extreme Performance Series 2023: Optimizing for Latency Sensitive Applications. Link

Windows

• End of servicing plan for third-party printer drivers on Windows. Link
• Release notes: September 2023 – Windows 11, version 22H2. Link
• Windows 11 KB5030219 trashes PCs, gaming performance issues affect Starfield. Link

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the hottest tech updates in the worlds of Azure, VMware, and other partners. In this series, we’ll be curating a collection of must-read articles, each offering a deep dive into the latest technological advancements, news, and trends within these cutting-edge platforms.

We understand that in today’s fast-paced tech landscape, staying informed is key. That’s why we’re here to make it easy for you. Each week, we’ll handpick the most insightful and informative articles that cover everything from Cloud, virtualization, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), DevOps to End User Computing breakthroughs.

Without further ado, let’s dive into this week’s top tech insights:

Microsoft Azure

• Conditional Access Overview and Templates are now Generally Available! Link
• Azure App Services Architecture. Link
• Azure Landing Zone Review Assessment. Link

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows 365 / VDI

• Getting started with Windows 365 Switch. Link
• VMware extends Windows 365 Cloud PCs to new audiences. Link
• Introducing the Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool. Link
• Week 36-2023 VMware Enduser Computing Updates. Link
• What’s new in the Remote Desktop WebRTC Redirector Service? Link

Windows

• Windows 11 New Updates for Snipping Tool and Notepad for Windows Insiders. Link
• TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be disabled in future Windows 11 starting in September 2023. Link

Intune

• Modern OS Provisioning for Windows Autopilot using OSDCloud. Link
• New to Intune? Avoid this Windows Autopilot mistake! Link
• Device/AVD session host compliance based Conditional access policy using Intune. Link

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / DevOps

• GitHub public roadmap. Link
• Deploying a Hashicorp Vault in Microsoft Azure via Terraform. Link
• GitHub Certifications (Actions, Admin and Security) for Azure Partners. Link
• Terraform on Azure with GitHub Copilot – Creating a Kubernetes Cluster and a Container Registry. Link
• Azure Landing Zones – Community Call – 25th September 2023. Link
• Quickstart: Create an Azure Firewall and a firewall policy – Terraform. Link
• Build a Dev Environment with Azure and Terraform. Link
• Version 2 of the Packer Azure plugin is now available. Link

Vembu

• BDRSuite by Vembu unveils Release Candidate for version 7.0.0, bringing exciting new features like backup support for KVM, Azure, and AWS. Link

VMware

• Retrieving vCenter Server certificate (Machine, VMCA Root, STS & Trusted Root) details using the vSphere API. Link
• New Tuning Settings for DRS and vMotion for VMs with Virtual GPUs in vSphere 8.0 Update 2. Link

Other

• PSWriteHTML PowerShell Module. Link