Unknown: Hello and welcome to this tech target
search virtual desktop flog. In this vlog, I will
show you how to configure FSLogix Pro for
containers to be saved in Azure Blob Storage. I
will explain to you what Blob Storage is. I will
explain to you what episode the proper container
says. We will do a step by step setup of the
storage account, downloading Fslogix installing
and configuring Fslogix and I will do a demo. The
demo I will be doing is on Windows virtual desktop
Technical Preview. But keep in mind that the
solution I'm showing you can even work on Citrix
and desktop or VMFU. Their requirements to use
Fslogix are on the screen you can see now you need
one of these licenses to use FSlogix. Now I will
explain to you what Azure blobs are actually blobs
a part of the extra storage account. So you create
a storage account, you will automatically have an
actual blog. The blog is blog based storage. And
it's ideal for saving things like documents,
photos, or backups, or in this case, saving the
FSlogix profile container. A great thing about
safe in the proper container this way is that you
don't have to have a file server for virtual
machine running in Azure, which saves a lot of
money. Also, the extra block is relatively cheap
storage and can be made redundant globally. So
first, what we're going to do is set up a storage
account. So as you can see, I got I haven't been
signing into my account. And here I got my storage
accounts. You can find them by searching for
storage accounts here in the top bar.
We're going to click on Add and this will bring us
to the menu to create a new storage account. Okay,
I select a resource group into which I want to
make it doesn't really matter where you save it,
but I'm going to do it in West Europe. I need a
unique name for my storage account. So what we're
going to do is created this tech target. They fit
they pro files WVD profiles in Europe, standard
performances all right for the profiles. And here
I can select the redundancy. Local redundancies
only done CGO or read XSDO redundancy. So for
this, I'm just going to use a local redundancy. I
can choose cold or hot or cold storage for the
performance. I'm going to leave that this and I'm
going to create my storage account. Okay, create.
Now my storage account will be made. While we're
waiting for the storage account to be finished, I
want to explain to you what FSlogix pro for
containers are. FSLogic Pro for containers saves
your whole user profile in a container. And this
container is a virtual hard drive file. Where you
sign in as a user The only thing that's happening
when to load the profile is the virtual hard drive
gets mounted. So this is really really fast. Also,
the size of the profile doesn't matter anymore.
The only thing that's happening is mounting of the
profile, there are no files getting copied from a
network drive to the local profile. So this is
really fast, size doesn't matter anymore of the
profile. And another thing This enables and
supports a support for office 365. So you're
always t files for Outlook, your OneDrive cash, or
can get in that same container, and user will have
it instantly. So all your problems you might have
when you using Exchange Online and outlook is slow
or you're missing some emails and you cannot get
it in caching mode. That's history. You can just
enable caching mode and save the OSD in the
default location and it will go into your Fslogix
container, which is of course a really great
feature. So my resources done so we're going to go
to the resource. This is my storage account and in
my storage account, I can scroll down, and here I
got my blobs. And it's empty at the moment. I
don't have any blobs in here yet. So I'm now going
to switch to my WVD machine. So this is a Windows
10 multi user machine. And I'm going to install
Fslogix on this machine. First I need to download
it. I can do this by going to aka.ms slash
Fslogix. This will bring you to the Microsoft
official page for Fslogix. Here, you can read a
few thing about FSLogix. And you can click on
Install FSlogix, and this will bring you to the
download, download Fslogix here. The download is
now going. I'm on Azure. So I got really fast
internet.
Luckily, I opened a zip and I will extract the ZIP
file. And then in the folder, you will find it x64
folder release. And here is the app set up. So you
need to have the app setup. Double click on this
and click I Agree. Install. Yes.
So now FSLogix will be installed on the machine
setup is successfully. That's great. So now we
need To configure Fslogix. To do this, we do this
with a registry. So I opened the registry editor
with red edit. I'll go to high key local machine
software Fslogix. And I'm going to make a new key,
and I'm going to call it profiles. I will include
the registry settings in the blog.
First, we need to make a registry setting to
enable the profiles. This is a D word, and it's
just called enabled. Wait until you have one. I
tell it that is enabled. Second thing I always
like to do is make sure that I use the modern
virtual hard drive file system which is VHDX. So I
make another registry entry, and this time I call
it volume type. And I enter VHDX, so we use the
new file format. So the next thing we need to do
is to tell it where to save the profile. Well,
what we're going to do is we need to save these
profiles in the storage block. So I need an access
key for the block. So I'm going to open up
Notepad. So I can paste access key in here. And
now I need to get the access key. You find this
access key in the storage account you created
under access keys. And then here on the connection
string. This is the key you need for the FSlogix
profiles to be saved in the block. So click on
this icon and now this whole string is copied. I'm
going to go back to my virtual machine I'm gonna
paste in the note that the complete key now I'm
gonna make a new registry entry strength value and
I'm call it CCD locations. Now I'm going to type
in type is Azure. So he knows that it has to go to
Azure connection string of connection string is
and two quotes and between the quotes. I'm going
to paste in this complete connection string like
this.
So let's test it out. I'm going to sign in with a
user into WPD and if everything is configured All
right, I should See a new profile created in
storage blob. I'm going to start my session
desktop session is now starting. And you can see
please wait for the FSlogix app surface, because
it's making the new profile now it's preparing
windows. And if I've done everything correctly, I
should now see in my actual storage account a, on
a blobs a profile for this user. Yes, here is the
profile. We can even look in the profile container
and we can see here is the VHDX for the user. So
everything you use and how does change application
settings, sync OneDrive, cash outlook, it will be
saved in This VHDX so I don't need to filter for
nothing, as you can see user as a profile, and it
can just work. So this way, you can really easily
set up windows virtual desktops with Fslogix. If
you have any questions, leave down in the
comments. And for now, I want to wish you good
luck trying this out.