Author: Mahammad Kubaib

Integrating Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) can streamline your access management process, offering a unified login experience across multiple platforms. Whether you use Office 365, log into domain machines, or access virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Azure AD allows you to leverage the same credentials to log into your AWS environment. In this video, we will explore how to integrate AWS with Azure AD, unlocking the benefits of a unified login and enhanced security through conditional access policies. To establish the integration between Azure AD and AWS, we will utilise Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), a…

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Are you tired of manually configuring and customising virtual machine images for Azure Virtual Desktop? Well, we have great news for you! Azure has recently introduced a new feature called Custom Image Templates in public preview. With Custom Image Templates, admins can effortlessly build custom golden images with Azure virtual desktop building customisations and their own customisation scripts. In the past, creating master images for Azure Virtual Desktop required a tedious and manual process. Admins had to install Windows patches, and desired applications, and configure settings like language packs and group policies on a virtual machine. This virtual machine was…

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Azure’s Public DNS Zone provides a reliable solution for resolving hostnames in your public domain. By utilising this service, you can effortlessly host your public DNS records and streamline your name resolution process. Let’s explore a practical example to better grasp its functionality. Understanding Public DNS Zone Azure’s Public DNS Zone provides a reliable solution for resolving hostnames in your public domain. By utilising this service, you can effortlessly host your public DNS records and streamline your name resolution process. Let’s explore a practical example to better grasp its functionality. Resolving Names from the Internet Consider a scenario where you…

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In this video, you will learn about Azure NetApp files and how they can be used in conjunction with Citrix Dash and FS Logics Technologies. One of the main components required for Azure virtual desktop or Citrix Dash with the pooled video infrastructure is a profile. If users save anything, it will vanish after logging off, so profiles are used to save data to a network share. To have a better profile experience, it’s recommended to have a highly available share that can host profiles. Two common options for this are Azure Premium File and Azure NetApp Files. Azure NetApp…

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This article will provide you with an overview of Microsoft Azure DNS, focusing on custom and default DNS services provided by Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure DNS is a hosting service that provides name resolution for DNS domains using Microsoft Azure infrastructure. It’s a service that helps you do name resolution for your resources in Azure. By default, you’ll have two types of DNS services in Azure: default DNS, which is provided by Microsoft by default, and custom DNS, which is your own DNS server. The default DNS provided by Microsoft has a domain called internal.cloudapp.net. Whenever you create any virtual…

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Registries required rem Disable Store auto update: reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore /v AutoDownload /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f Schtasks /Change /Tn “\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\Scheduled Start” /Disable rem Disable Content Delivery auto download apps that they want to promote to users: reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager /v PreInstalledAppsEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager\Debug /v ContentDeliveryAllowedOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0x2 /f Command to generate self signed certificatesNew-SelfSignedCertificate -Type Custom -Subject “CN=Contoso” -KeyUsage DigitalSignature -KeyAlgorithm RSA -KeyLength 2048 -CertStoreLocation “cert:\LocalMachine\My”

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