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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

Planning and implementing a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop

This section looks at the five critical components for implementing a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop. First, we start with virtual networks, which underpin the Azure Virtual Desktop environment.

Virtual network

In this section, we take a look at the network requirements for disaster recovery in an Azure Virtual Desktop environment.

Connectivity is the first consideration when planning and implementing a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop. Before resources can communicate in a secondary region, you need to ensure that VNet has been set up in your secondary region/location. You may also need to consider connectivity between on-premises and the secondary region.

The most common connectivity type to use between on-premises and the Azure virtual network would be a VPN gateway. The following diagram depicts a simple VPN gateway connecting to an on-premises site:

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