Disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop You need to keep your applications and workloads up and running during planned and unplanned Azure outages, you need to have a good PCDR plan. PCDR stands for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. So when an outage occurs in a region, the service infrastructure components will fail over to a secondary location or region and it will continue functioning as normal. So you can still access service related meter data and users can still connect to available hosts. A good BCTR plan should…

MSIX app attach – Deployment Part 2 In this lecture, we will create the MSI X image that will contain our MSI X packages or applications. For that we need three things. First, to have a machine where you have the admin permissions, so you can create the Msix image. I’m going to use my personal machine for that. It doesn’t have to be a virtual machine machine on Azure. It can be your laptop PC or whatever you have. But you need to be the admin on that, because…

Apps Management Options When it comes to the Windows Virtual Desktop applications management options, which means how we will manage the applications and to which users these applications shall be available. We have three main options. The first one is the normal one, which is using the virtual machine image or the golden image that you use to provision in the host pools. So in this option you will create a virtual machine image, custom image, you will spin it, you will install all of the applications for all the…

How to Backup and Recover in Jira Jira backups are essential because they allow you to have a point in time snapshot of your instances, configuration, and data. Once you back up your Jira instance, you can restore that configuration and data is needed. Let’s spend some time talking about backup and restore options in Jira. In the event of a system failure, you need to have a backup and a rollback plan for your Jira instance. You should test this plan frequently so you can quickly and easily revert…

Jira Support Tools Jira includes its support tools as part of the Support Tools plugin. These tools are designed to use the power of Hercules Atlassian support bot and to help you maintain your instance and diagnose errors. In addition to the set of support tools, Jira also includes system logs and audit logs that you can use to troubleshoot and evaluate your system. We take a look at support tools and available logs in this video to help you with Jira maintenance. Out of the Box support tools in…

How to Set Groups and Application Access Groups act as global containers designed to store and categorize a collection of users. With Groups, you can grant users functionality such as global permissions or application access. Let’s talk about the default groups in Jira. Depending on the applications you have installed, you may have two or more default groups in Jira. Each Jira application automatically creates a group for itself when you install it and assign that group as the default. Default groups allow you to create users and automatically assign…

How to Test, Share, and Troubleshoot Workflows Workflows are essential in Jira. In addition to building workflows, you need to test those workflows to make sure they work correctly. And you may want to import and export workflows in and out of your Jira instance for several reasons. Let’s take a look at all three of these tasks as they apply to a Jira administrator. Testing workflows is an important task as a Jira admin, and there are a few strategies available to you. Test in a test environment if…

How to Create and Clone a Workflow As a Jira admin, you create and modify the workflows. For your Jira instance, there are a few ways to get the workflow you need. You can create one from scratch, clone and edit an existing workflow, or import a workflow. In this video, we cover creating a workflow from scratch and cloning an existing workflow. Check out the Jira Administrator Reference guide for details on the import process. Perhaps you’re wondering, ring, should I create a new workflow from scratch or clone…

How to Create Issue Security Schemes Issue security schemes allow you to specify security restrictions on individual issues with custom security levels. Security levels specify if a user group or members of a project role can see an issue. Without the security level clearance, a user cannot see the issue. You set security level by selecting from a dropdown field or by automation during an issue transition. Issue level security restricts individual issues and is typically used for high security issues in a project. Some situations where you might use…

How to Create Field Configuration Schemes Field Configuration schemes map your field configurations to Issue types, which allow you to set different behavior for issue types and projects. If you need to have issuetypes behave differently, such as requiring a field for one issue type but not another issue type, you use Field Configuration Schemes to set the actual behavior of the field you use. Field Configuration. You can only associate an issue type with one field configuration per field configuration scheme. Field Configuration and Field Configuration schemes work together…