Geeky Stuff I Learned Today

First post in a long time... Too much management and not enough geeking, so on with the joys of building Azure Virtual Desktop in a completely Azure AD setup. First thing to be said is that the Microsoft documentation on all of this sucks. Badly.This post comes from pulling together bits from there, about a dozen different blog posts and bug reports in github. Yes, that painful for what is actually very simple code. I won't bother with a fully working piece of Terraform as if you're reading this you probably already know Terraform and AzureRM enough to not need an example of creating a VNet. On with the show... The Workspace resource "azurerm_virtual_desktop_workspace" "workspace" {   name                 = var . workspace   resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group . resourcegroup . name   location             = azurerm_resource_group . resourcegroup . location   friendly_name   ...

Like me, you might have considered Intune to be your one stop MDM solution if you're an Office/Microsoft 365 user. On the whole it is pretty good, but it's got one massive failing: It doesn't support Google accounts on Android Work Profiles. You might think that if you're a Microsoft shop it's not a big deal, but there two major reasons why you might want to use Google alongside Azure Active Directory: SSO. Many companies charge extra for SSO with Azure but include it for free with Google, e.g. Slack and Atlassian. Chrome. Let's face it, everyone uses Chrome rather than Edge so signing in with a Google account to sync your favourites is pretty handy. Managing this setup in an organisation is pretty easy. Sign up for G-Suite account, sync all your users from Azure AD, configure G-Suite to use AAD for authentication and you're done. Enterprise managed Google accounts for everyone at zero cost if you don't actually need G-Suite. Given the abo...