Intro In this post, I want to show you how you can easily set up Azure DevOps to control your Azure Function Apps (AF). Out of the box, AF supports editing in the portal or using VS Code / Visual Studio for both editing and updating. While both methods are fine, I prefer to use Azure DevOps for AF instead, enabling...Read More

Intro In this blog post, I want to show you how easy it is to create a custom image in Azure and use it inside your Windows 365 machines. The process is simple, and hopefully, this guide will help you get started with the basics. And after that, you can start automating all the steps if you want to. Setup I first need...Read More

Intro In this post, I want to guide you through the initial setup of Windows 365 (W365) from Microsoft. W365 is also known as Cloud PC and is the new desktop in the Cloud that Microsoft delivers. There are two flavors of W365, a business and an enterprise edition. The business edition will be a standard alone machine...Read More

As you may know, I am a bit fan of automation and source control, and the reason for this is that these tools help me provide a stable IT environment for customers and internal use. The confidence that doing an installation or update and that the deployment is executed exactly as I did the last time is something I...Read More

We all know that we shouldn’t put any passwords into our code and check them into source control, but many guides (including my own) often reference a password variable or parameter. The parameter option is actually OK, in my opinion, as long as you then reference a secure password from either an Azure DevOps...Read More

This is the last part of this blog series, and here I want to show you how to use a JSON configuration file and a PowerShell script to deploy the same environment as you have seen in the first five parts of the series. This deployment type will feel familiar to many consultants since PowerShell is widely used among...Read More