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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

Chapter 13: Configuring User Experience Settings

In this chapter, we will look at user experience. We will start by looking at the powerful capabilities of Universal Print before looking at Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Then, we will look at Start Virtual Machine (VM) on Connect, which is very useful for those who want to reduce the cost and control the startup of VMs. After that, we will cover Screen Capture protection for protecting corporate data, FSLogix profile troubleshooting, and provide some useful information on remote desktop client connection issues.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Configuring Universal Print
  • Configuring user settings using Microsoft Endpoint Manager
  • Start VM on Connect
  • Screen capture
  • Troubleshooting FSLogix profile issues
  • Troubleshooting client connection issues

    Important Note

    For more information on configuring persistent and non-persistent desktops and configuring Remote Desktop properties for a host pool...