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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By : Ryan Mangan
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Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop

By: Ryan Mangan

Overview of this book

Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud desktop virtualization platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps. Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop will guide you through designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop environment effectively. This book can also be used as an exam preparation guide to help you sit the Microsoft AZ-140 exam. You’ll start with an introduction to the essentials of Azure Virtual Desktop. Next, you’ll get to grips with planning an Azure Virtual Desktop architecture before learning how to implement an Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage and control access as well as configure security controls on your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. As you progress, you’ll understand how to manage user environments and configure MSIX app attach and other Azure Virtual Desktop features to enhance the user experience. You’ll also learn about the Azure Active Directory (AD) join and getting started feature. Finally, you’ll discover how to monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop environment to help you support your users and diagnose issues when they occur. By the end of this Microsoft Azure book, you’ll have covered all the essential topics you need to know to design and manage Azure Virtual Desktop and prepare for the AZ-140 exam.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementing an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
13
Section 4: Managing Access and Security
16
Section 5: Managing User Environments and Apps
21
Section 6: Monitoring and Maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Deploying an Azure AD-joined host pool

In this section, we will look at deploying a host pool using Azure AD join.

Before we get started, I want to cover the use of FSLogix profile containers with Azure AD join. When using Azure AD join, there are a few slight differences compared to the traditional way when using Active Directory Domain Services. The following link takes you to the Microsoft documentation detailing how to configure FSLogix profile containers with Azure Files and Azure AD. Please note this feature is in preview at the time of writing: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/create-profile-container-azure-ad.

Let's now move on and look at the creation of an Azure AD-joined host pool:

  1. We first need to navigate to the Azure Virtual Desktop service to get started.
  2. Proceed to create a new host pool.
  3. Within the host pool creation screen, under the Virtual Machine tab, in the Domain to join section, select Azure Active Directory:
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