Scenario Let’s say you have a pool of WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop) servers on Azure and have configured FSlogix profiles loading from a file server or Azure files (through a Group Policy). For troubleshooting purposes, you may need to force a user to load a local profile instead of the FSlogix profile on a specified … Read more
Scenario Let’s say you have a pool of WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop) servers on Azure and for troubleshooting purposes, you need to deny a user (or users) to log on to a specific host. To do this you can do it with the below 2 ways: Option #1 By enabling “Drain mode” in one (or … Read more
Backup is always very important, and often we already have the tools to do it for free – in this post I will show you how to use the already installed WSL on Windows 10 to automate your backups to a local secondary disk. Prerequisites For this to work you will need: Windows Subsystem for … Read more
Following the previous blog post about installing and configuring WSL 2 on Windows 10, we now can start using it for our file operations. I find it much easier to use GNU/Linux tools for file manipulation such as ‘‘diff’’ and ‘‘sed’’ than their Windows equivalents. In this post, we will mount an existing SMB share … Read more
Recently Microsoft added a list of new features to the well-received WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) named “WSL 2”. This new version of WSL enables features such as increased file IO performance and full system call compatibility and is not enabled by default. In this guide, we will install, configure WSL2 on our Windows 10 … Read more