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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 2: Designing the Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

We will start this book by looking at the design of Azure Virtual Desktop. Design is an integral part of any suitable technology solution, and in this chapter, we will look at the areas you should consider when designing Azure Virtual Desktop.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Assessing existing physical and Virtual Desktop environments
  • Assessing the network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Identifying an operating system for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
  • Planning and configuring name resolution for Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Services
  • Planning a host pools architecture
  • Recommended resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
  • Configuring the location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata
  • Calculating and recommending a configuration for capacity and performance requirements