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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Open source
FSLogix
Health
Check
Public preview 0.1.0
My open-source contribution
Is FSLogix actually set up right on this session host?
One read-only PowerShell script. It checks 47 settings against Microsoft’s own best practice, scores the host, and explains every finding in plain English. Built for the “my profile didn’t roam” ticket, and for day one of a deployment.
47
checks
0
writes to the host
MIT
licence
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 · 1 Oct 2026
Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Is GA. Microsoft Built Half of It on Purpose.
AVD Hybrid went GA on 1 September 2026. What it does, the gap Microsoft left in it, and what Nerdio is building to close it.
Nerdio Manager · 2 Sep 2026
Nerdio Global Pools: From a Fixed Split to a Deliberate One
A first look at Nerdio Global Pools for AVD: what it does in Public Preview, what it doesn’t, and where it sits next to Host Pool DR.
Azure Virtual Desktop · 19 Aug 2026
FSLogix: What Belongs in a Profile, What Doesn’t, and How to Keep It That Way
What goes in an FSLogix profile container, how big it should be, and how to stop it growing forever.
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.
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