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Cleaning Azure File Shares with Azure Functions
One of the complaints I have about using FSLogix to store AVD User Profiles on Azure File Shares is that there’s no native way to clean up the stale / unneeded VHDs once users move on. If you search the web, you’ll come across some curiously misleading examples that discuss setting up an Azure Function…
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Azure Cloud Challenge: Lime Survey
Last week I worked with a team in Germany to deliver an Azure Hackathon. During the hackathon, we decided to create a cloud challenge for the team to work through. These challenges are difficult and require independent critical thinking. The requirements below were developed with the attendees, after which we worked at the whiteboard to…
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Mother’s Day Blast From the Past
Firstly: Happy Mother’s Day to all you Moms out there. While visiting my Mother today she unloaded what amounted to a time capsule into my car! She had three big totes of stuff from as long ago as my first baby shoes to as recent as High School graduation. I’m so tickled she kept all…
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Customizing Configuration Manager Offline Servicing of Operating System Images Temporary File Location
While working on a presentation for Microsoft’s Minority Student Day here in the Columbus office, I came across an annoyance with Configuration Manager 1610 in my lab. The ConfigMan server in the lab is virtual, hosted on Server 2016 in Hyper-V. The VM’s OS disk is set to be 128GB and stored on a high…
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Home Lab Upgrade
Azure is fun. It’s more than fun – it’s low-key kind of awesome. With just a few clicks anyone can make pretty much anything they want without having to have hardware on-hand to prop it up. All you need is money (or a sponsored Azure account from your workplace *hint hint*). While that’s pretty damn…