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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

Enabling user access

Before users can sign in to the session hosts within the Azure AD-joined host pool, you must configure the required permission using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). First, we need to add the required users and Azure AD groups to the host pool default desktop application group. We also need to add the Virtual Machine User Login RBAC role.

Important Note

The Virtual Machine User Login RBAC role is not an Azure Virtual Desktop role. This is required to enable access to sign in to a VM. The Azure role enables logon by applying the DataAction permission.

Depending on your requirements and host pool deployment, you may want to review the scope for this role. For example, assigning an Azure AD group at the resource group level may make more sense than assigning the RBAC role for each user per VM.

Important Note

It is not advised to set the Virtual Machine User Login RBAC role at the subscription level; you would essentially give all assigned users the...