One of my clients recently came to me asking for assistance to set up a new VPN solution. The requirements were quite simple - They were building out an Azure Point-To-Site VPN solution and needed me to come up with a way to deliver the connection to the end user devices.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing with Universal Print - the cloud print solution developed by Microsoft and I honestly can’t praise it enough.

Azure Image Builder (AIB) is Microsoft’s solution to configure and customize virtual machine images. The concept of it is pretty great: Pick a reference image from the public market place, apply some customization built around HashiCorp’s Packer, hit build and what you are left with is a fully customized template image that can be hosted in Azure as a managed image or a VHD file.

Let me start off by saying I wish I didn’t have to write this post. Setting the correct time zone of a Windows device shouldn’t be this difficult, especially with all of the management possibilities provided to us with Intune and the entire endpoint management stack. But here we are!