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Happy to help! let me know how you like using it and if you have suggestions for improvement

@@AzureAcademy Just tested ! very easy to use. All working good except maybe the VM clock and the country is still in USA I have almost finished my blog article !

Awesome! Please drop a link to your blog so everyone can read it!

Thanks!

awesome, let me know how it goes!

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks for watching! Yeah, the next part is going to be amazing!

@@AzureAcademy I'm looking for the next part but I can't find it. Is it ready yet?

not yet...soon...I hope 🤞

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Thanks!

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Me too ☺️

Enjoy!! O think about anything that makes this a better tool, and let me know

Between James and you the whole team helping me automate our AVD deployment is here! Thanks fellas!

Awesome!

Hey Guys! Just checking any updates to this? Just started a new AVD migration and building the image was great using this but would love to see this get better. Dean in order to update the original image do you just start build again and then save the image as version 1.1 or whichever version system you choose to use back the the Azure Compute Gallery?

You start a new build then give it your previous template…then make any changes you need to

happy to help!

@@AzureAcademy thank you your the best for helping in windows have a great day

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No problem post more good videos 😁😁 👍👍👍👏👏🙂

Will do! Are there any specific topics you are interested in?

Yeah! Let me know how you like using it and any improvements you can think of

@@AzureAcademy One thing that causing us pain currently is applying ASG to new VM in hostpool, It would be nice to be able to add/set default ASGs to all member in the hostpool so that all vm in that hostpool will pick that up either at the point of scalling, or new additional vm.

Agreed, I will submit this to the PG as a feature improvement, thanks!

You can check all the details what each customization is doing by looking at each URL.

Thanks, let me know what improvements you think it needs!

Dean quick question? We tried to use an image from SIG that we did with AIB and pipeline and it immediately failed trying to update it with this method. My theory was that the C:\buildartifacts dir had previous things in it preventing it. Does this I assume use that same dir behind the scenes? Being that its just AIB doing the work?

It does use the same Directory. Check the AIB storage account for the packer logs to see why it failed

@@AzureAcademy So its just immediatelay failing. THe Temp IT_ isnt even creating. I am watching this again just to confirm but it worked beautifully with a new image from marketplace but for some reason if I use a SIG image to try and modify it immediately fail and the guidance for the error Validation failed: 'ImageTemplate.properties': Field 'source.type' has a bad value:

Oh…then your problem should be that you didn’t set up the managed ID or give it proper permissions. I cover that here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pb53oMmgzJ6nkaM.html

@@AzureAcademy i definitely watched that one and i’ll do it again. The MI is setup and works but your probably right. Most of your common issues i have run into each and every one of them so the videos are a great help

Yeah, let me know what you think and what should be improved!

@@AzureAcademy I sent it to a few of my guys too - right now our process is manual and takes us a solid three hours from making a template change to having it be deployable.

Cool, let me know how much time this is saving you

Every product has some features that are the big selling point…I’m hoping this one and the one to come soon will close one of those feature advantages.

that IS what having windows update selected and letting it run month after month. It will ingest all the latest patches on top of the existing image and create a new version.

@Azure Academy you mean selecting that will create new versions automatically?? Or you need to do it again next month while the setting is already in place?

Run the build once, get an image version, run it again next month and you get a new image version with all of next months updates in it, make sense

They are SysPrep in the imaging and capture process so when you first deploy them you need to complete the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience). You can provide a .xml file to answer all the OOBE questions and get right to windows

Intune app deployment happens after the VM is built, so if you use dynamic groups your new VMs will get the Intune apps once they are deployed!

I don’t think Azure Image Builder supports private link. Private link is a service in Azure that allows you to have a dedicated IP on your VNET so you can write local rules for it. The other one is at the vnets subnet level and that is a service endpoint Which allows you to dedicate a subnet for a service link storage or Azure SQL I do t think AIB supports this either I’d Let the service create the vnet for you

OneDrive uses storage sense the way to clean up cold files. Windows multisession does not support storage sense today

You can just check the boxes for the features you want to optimize, but YES, this script will run the optimization with the default settings raw.githubusercontent.com/danielsollondon/azvmimagebuilder/master/solutions/14_Building_Images_WVD/1_Optimize_OS_for_WVD.ps1

yes...about a million things for POOLED VMs. Pooled VMs should be disposable...when you need to patch...build new VMs. Throw old VMs away. Intune cannot image AVD VMs. all the built in AVD customizations in the process are such time savers that this process is worth it for that alone. Apps and configs installed in the image save time. if apps aren't in the image, the VM is built, but needs to be quarantined from users logging onto it because all apps are configs are not done yet. the VM needs to be QA'd after you hope all apps and configs are applied to VM before you make the VM available to users. App installation into the image just requires the apps install to be scripted...Intune requires repackaging into .intunewin format I could go on...but you get the point. Personal VMs...you can make a case that Intune is a better way to manage the VMs...because they are like someones laptop.

You are correct, You can build a trusted launch vm unless the image definition was created with the trusted launch options.

I can’t say exactly…but my guess is either The gallery is in a different region Or the definition you created is a different OS or security type or generation

I have a green screen that I stand in front of then use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the video, remove the green and place myself inside the computer...some of the animations are done with Adobe After Effects and the thumbnails are created in Photoshop

Very…very soon, I’ll have a video on it the day it is available

Gen 2 is supported from what I see and read, but your VM Generation and Image Definition need to be on the same VM Generation for it to work. You can't use a Gen 1 Definition with a Gen 2 VM. This doc also shows that Confidential and Trusted Launch ARE supported with Azure Image Builder and Custom Image Templates...IF the Source image you are using is supported. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/image-builder-overview?tabs=azure-powershell#confidential-vm-and-trusted-launch-support

The feature is still in the oven cooking…needs a bit more time. I will have a video on it as soon as it is public…so subscribe and hit the bell so you don’t miss it 🥺☺️

@@AzureAcademy Already done! Thanks...this sent me down a very large rabbit hole of your videos 😊

Awesome! Stay tuned ☺️

LOL wow what will this “Joker” come up with next! 🤣☺️👍👍

@@AzureAcademy 😹🕹🀄

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Image Builder can be done in bicep and all the AVD customization URLs are publicly accessible…so YES!

@@AzureAcademy Do we have an "official" ETA on when the automagic Host Pool update bit will be available? That to me is one of the biggest challenges (besides image creation/updating that is) in adopting AVD vs say Citrix or View (or using Nerdio).

None that I can share publicly…but SOON ☺️ and the team understands your concerns! Stay tuned it won’t be too long

You are welcome ☺️ sometimes after changing the permissions on a managed ID it can take several minutes before they take effect If you look at the permissions currently assigned to the managed ID does it have everything you expected…and it still isn’t working?

@@AzureAcademy still not working but it can create a new RG but facing an issue while using the existing one.

Sounds like the managed id pensions are not correct

Thanks for your feedback! I add these effects to keep things moving and engaging because tech videos can be very dry…but it is a always good to keep improving the balance, thanks again

It’s still good to know the template side and scripting but yeah this will make things easier for everyone

Cool thanks