Work Safely and Flexibly from Anywhere: The Cloud-Based Workplace with Azure Virtual Desktop

Michael Weinig AG, a global market leader in wood processing machinery, adopted the Azure Virtual Desktop so employees could work productively from any location. The company also wanted to standardize on a common workplace platform, reduce VPN traffic and lower travel costs. Read the customer story to learn from the company’s experience implementing Azure Virtual Desktop to transition from outdated IT to cloud.

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Zero Trust Will Replace Your VPN by 2025 – Here’s Why and How You Can Prepare

Remote work and the continuing threat of cyber-attacks are driving organizations to find better security frameworks. The solution may be a zero-trust framework which is a stringent, layered approach that assumes no user is automatically trustworthy.

Research firm Gartner forecasts that zero-trust access is the security framework of the future and will replace virtual private networks by 2025. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn Gartner’s predictions and advice in this article. Read it here.

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Collect and Query Graphics Data for Azure Virtual Desktop Connections

Graphics data logs for Azure Virtual Desktop are in public preview.

You can set up the diagnostics table in Azure Log Analytics and collect graphics data for your Azure Virtual Desktop connections. The graphics data table generates information whenever end-to-end delay and dropped frames percentages fall below a healthy threshold for Azure Virtual Desktop. This table helps administrators understand performance factors across the server, client and network that could be contributing to slow or choppy end-user experiences. Read the article here.

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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere

Microsoft has unveiled its latest Azure Virtual Machines {VMs} featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor.

The three new VMs in the Azure Virtual Machine series are built on the Ampere Altra processor and are engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads. In addition, the Arm-based VMs can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Read about the new VMs and their capabilities here.

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Work Safely and Flexibly from Anywhere: The Cloud-Based Workplace with Azure Virtual Desktop

When Michael Weinig AG, a German manufacturer of woodworking equipment, wanted to enable employees to work flexibly from any location, it migrated to Microsoft 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop. In this customer story, the manufacturing company shares its experience creating digital workspaces with Azure and Microsoft 365 tools. Get the story to learn how Michael Weinig is benefitting from its Microsoft-driven digital transformation by preventing VPN congestion, minimizing downtime and accelerating innovation.

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