Automate Your Elgato Key Light Air with Microsoft Teams Presence

August 11, 2025 Andy 6 mins read 6

If you're anything like me, you've probably joined a video call only to realise your lighting isn’t quite right. I use an Elgato Key Light Air, and I wanted it...

OpenVPN Site-to-Site setup

July 12, 2025 Andy 26 mins read 19

Setting up a Site-to-Site VPN is a powerful way to securely link two remote networks—such as a home lab and a cloud environment—so they behave as if they’re on the same local...

Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop – A Modular, Automated Approach

June 8, 2025 Andy 9 mins read 39

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is Microsoft’s comprehensive Desktop-as-a-Service platform, enabling secure remote access to Windows desktops and apps from virtually anywhere. While powerful, deploying AVD in a robust, enterprise-ready manner can...

Virtual PAW – Part 4 – Completing the basic setup

March 23, 2025 Andy 5 mins read 3

So this is part 4 of my multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW.. Introduction In this part I'll go...

Virtual PAW – Part 3 – Deploying the session hosts

February 27, 2025 Andy 9 mins read 19

So this is the 3rd part of a multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW.. Introduction Welcome to the 3rd...

Virtual PAW – Part 2 – Core Components

February 18, 2025 Andy 12 mins read 4

So this is the 2nd part of a multi part series on my journey with Bicep and ARM Templates and deploying AVD as a PAW. Part One was the high...

Virtual PAW – Part 1 – A high level overview

February 14, 2025 Andy 9 mins read 13

I have decided to create this as a multi part post to hopefully make it easier to understand. Introduction So Following on from my last post I thought I'd share...

Securing my privileged access with AVD

January 15, 2025 Andy 3 mins read 11

I'm trying to "lead by example" (I use that term loosely), when it comes to privileged access. A bit of background For a long time my regular Microsoft 365 account...

Cost effective IPSec Site to Site VPN with Azure and UDM

June 9, 2024 Andy 12 mins read 19

There are many ways to establish a VPN between my UDM and Azure andI’ve tried them all, but, for the best result I would still recommend using an Azure Virtual...