Every year, me and a couple of cousins of mine pick a day, and we game all day. Usually it’s an old game that everybody can play. Like Command & Conquer: Generals.
Back in the days we all came together and linked our PC’s with a switch, and we were good to go. But these days we’re grown up and living miles apart, so we usually link our PC’s over the internet. With an old game like that, connecting over the internet doesn’t work that well or isn’t supported at all, it needs a LAN. So I build an pfsense server in Azure that supports Layer 2 broadcast messages over the VPN. This all works really well.

In my previous post I showed how to create an image with Azure Image Builder. In that post we created a managed image, from which we could deploy a VM, or use in our Windows Virtual Desktop - Hostpool deployment.

Over the past few months I’ve seen multiple articles about how to create a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) image. They usually login to the VM themselves, install some apps and do some modifications, and sysprep the VM. After that you can optionally make a snapshot of your VM, and then convert it to a managed image which you can use for a WVD deployment.

So I’ve been thinking about starting my own blogsite for a while now. I’ve some great idea’s about how to setup Windows Virtual Desktop, create the golden image for it, and enhance the default configuration.

FIDO2 authentication is the latest method to sign in passwordless on devices and websites.

21 March 2019 the Windows Virtual Desktop preview went live. My colleague Jan Bakker and myself went straight to all available documentation, and build a test environment together. In this blogpost we will show you how to setup a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) environment, and what to watch out for. As a bonus we will also show how to install and configure FSLogix. This tutorial will be a step by step guide to setup a complete demo environment from scratch.