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Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop App is now Available on the Microsoft Store

Microsoft’s new Azure Virtual Desktop app is available to download from the Microsoft Store. The company announced the app’s availability in public preview yesterday, and it runs on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Until now, the only way to access Azure Virtual Desktop resources was to download the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. Additionally,…

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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Guide: How to Install Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

I’m sure many of you are excited that Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program team recently launched the testing phase of Windows 11. What better way to get your feet wet than to test it in a brand-new virtual Hyper-V machine! Some of your users will probably be clamoring to upgrade when it’s official and recommended, so,…

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Optimizing the VDI User Experience with FSLogix Containers and Application Masking 

Last Update: Mar 10, 2023

Remote and virtual desktop solutions provide a flexible way for users to access remote services securely while maintaining control of how the users access those services. In this article, I’ll explain how FSLogix can optimize remote and virtual desktop environments by leveraging Profile Containers and Application Masking. I’ll also detail the FSLogix features allowing users…

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Cloud Computing and Security

Microsoft Adds Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Last week, Microsoft released a new update that adds pod sandboxing support to its Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The new feature allows organizations to run modern applications on AKS in an isolated and secure environment. Microsoft explained that it’s a standard practice to use Kubernetes for hosting and managing modern applications in cloud environments. However,…

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Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac

Parallels Desktop is Now Officially Supported for Running Windows 11 on ARM on Apple Silicon Macs

Last Update: Feb 24, 2023

Microsoft has finally recognized Parallels Desktop for Mac as a supported solution for running Windows 11 on ARM on Apple Silicon Macs. Back in 2021, Parallels Desktop for Mac 17 was the first version of the virtualization software to add support for Windows 11 on macOS, though Microsoft said at the time that it was…

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Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac

How to Install Windows 11 on a Mac with Parallels Desktop

Windows 11 is the first version of Windows that Mac users can’t install natively on Mac. That’s because Intel-based Macs don’t need the minimum requirements for the new OS, while Apple Silicon Macs have dropped support for Apple’s Boot Camp multi-boot utility. In this article, I’ll explain how to install Windows 11 on Mac using…

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How to Create a Windows Virtual Desktop Tenant with Windows Virtual Desktop

Last Update: Feb 22, 2023

In the second part of this series, I show you how to create a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.

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Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop: Understanding Azure Virtual Desktop

Last Update: Feb 22, 2023

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

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Securing Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide access to Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops and applications virtually anywhere. It’s a solution hosted by Microsoft, which makes it secure by design, even though there is a lot of responsibility on the customer to ensure services are secure. In this article, I will…

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