Wayne Bellows
Senior TAM, Nerdio
Twenty years in end-user computing. I spend my days on Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Intune and Entra with enterprise customers, and I write down the parts worth keeping.
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Field notes from production
Modern EUC,
done properly.
Practical, field-tested guidance on Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Intune, Microsoft Entra and the wider cloud workspace. Written from real production environments, not marketing decks.
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The blog shelf
Every article on this site as a book on a shelf you can drag, pull out and read.
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Selected writing
Start with these three
Series · 8 parts
7 Habits of Highly Effective Nerdio Admins
An eight-part operational playbook for running AVD on Nerdio: image management, patching, app delivery, auto-scale and cost control.
Analysis
Microsoft’s Azure Skills Plugin: what it means for AVD admins
What the new Azure Skills Plugin, Azure MCP Server and Foundry MCP actually do for an AVD admin, and where the rough edges still are.
Architecture
AVD Regional Host Pools explained
How regional host pools remove a hidden single point of failure in the AVD control plane, and why that matters in regulated industries.
What I write about
Five areas, one theme
Making modern cloud workspaces resilient, secure and operationally sustainable.
Featured series
7 Habits of Highly Effective Nerdio Admins
An eight-part body of work distilling the operational habits that separate stable, cost-efficient AVD estates from the rest. Start at Habit #1 and work through.
01 IMAGES
02 PATCHING
03 APPS
04 AUTO-SCALE
05 COST
06 SCALE
07 MONITORING
08 HABITS
Latest
From the blog
Azure Virtual Desktop · 19 Aug 2026
FSLogix: What Belongs in a Profile, What Doesn’t, and How to Keep It That Way
What actually belongs in a profile container, why compaction fails silently, and the Kerberos hardening already breaking logons.
Azure Virtual Desktop · 29 Jul 2026
Teams WebRTC optimisation is retiring: what AVD and Windows 365 admins need to check before October
Teams WebRTC VDI optimisation retires in two milestones. The endpoint readiness check, and the MSIX trap that blocks SlimCore.
Azure Virtual Desktop · 17 Jun 2026
How to run Azure Virtual Desktop with cloud-only and external identities using FSLogix
No on-premises AD, FSLogix on Azure Files and Entra Kerberos — and migrating shares before the RC4 change breaks them.
Azure Virtual Desktop · 3 Jun 2026
Context-Based Redirection in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365: A Practical Guide
Configuring redirection so clipboard, drive, printer and USB adapt to how much the device is trusted.
Nerdio Manager · 26 May 2026
Microsoft Just Packaged Azure Expertise into a Plugin. Here’s What It Means for AVD Admins.
The Azure Skills Plugin, Azure MCP Server and Foundry MCP in one install. What it does, and where the rough edges are.
Azure Virtual Desktop · 24 Apr 2026
Your Most Locked-Down Users Just Got AVD’s Biggest Connectivity Upgrade in Years
Redundant TCP transport paths for AVD, and what they change for finance and healthcare estates where UDP is blocked.
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