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Azure Virtual Desktop in 2023

An introduction to the Azure Virtual Desktop series The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards remote work and it’s now clear that this trend will continue even after the pandemic subsides and companies are introducing a new way of hybrid-working. In light of this, it’s important for companies to find solutions that allow employees to work from anywhere with ease. This is where Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) comes in. Azure Virtual Desktop has evolved a lot since its introduction in 2019, and now in 2023, its now easier than ever to deploy an Azure Virtual Desktop environment, with more flexibility and control available now than there was at launch.

February 14, 2023 Read

Getting started with a Framework for Conditional Access

Conditional Access is security 101 for organisations that use Azure Active Directory. Any modern organisation will have numerous types of users and employees who have different needs, and these days with hybrid working environments, the common perimeter of a corporate network has now changed from a traditional on-premise network to an extended network containing mobile devices and users working remotely. Conditional Access allows an organisation to provide a layer of security across their identities, devices and applications.

June 29, 2022 Read

Quarter one update! Exams, running and more

Covid, Non-Profits & Exams The start of 2022 started off on a bit of a sour note. Myself & my Partner both tested positive for Covid-19, nearly enough 18 months after the start of the pandemic. We have got lucky when evading the virus, as Emma works in the NHS, and now on a respiratory ward. So yeah, 2022 didn’t start off great, having to isolate for 10 days, the first working week of January.

March 28, 2022 Read

Deploy a cloud based Enterprise site list for IE Mode in Edge

At Microsoft Ignite 2021, The Edge team announced the capability to create an Enterprise Website list for Edge directly in the M365 admin centre.(Cloud Site List Management) Previously this was done on premise with an XML file and a tool called Enterprise site list manager. Now with Microsoft 365, this can all be done in the cloud through the Microsoft 365 admin center and deployed by Microsoft Intune through a device configuration policy.

November 2, 2021 Read

Build A Blog With Azure Static Web Apps - Part two

Publishing your Hugo Blog to Azure What did we do in part one? In part one, I shown how to install the Hugo CLI on Windows and how to set up a new Hugo Blog locally on your PC. By using Visual Studio Code, this allowed us to create our new blog and start creating content in Markdown. In part two of this small guide, I will show how to upload your new blog to Azure in the form of Azure Static Web Apps through uploading your Blog to GitHub and how to set up your Azure Static Web App in the Azure portal.

October 21, 2021 Read

Build A Blog With Azure Static Web Apps - Part one

Overview Azure static Web Apps (SWAs) are a great way to get up and running with your own blog or website. I have always been a big advocate of WordPress in the past to get up and running with a relatively modern blog, but often WordPress can be quite cumbersome and often slow for a basic blog. Fast forward to 2021, and SWA’s are a great solution for hosting web applications such as Hugo blogs or React applications.

October 11, 2021 Read

Welcome to my blog!

This isn’t my first time attempting to write a tech based blog. I have tried a couple of times in the past writing about consumer technology first, which was relatively successful. In the early 2010’s I started a simple Wordpress blog which I reviewed and wrote about the latest consumer tech, I even had a contact with a Vodafone supplier, who provided me and other tech bloggers with sample devices to use and review.

September 20, 2021 Read