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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 7: Configure Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools

In this chapter, we look at configuring Azure Virtual desktop host pools. This includes license configuration for server-based multi-session deployments, configuring host pool settings, using PowerShell to customize Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) properties, configuring host pool load balancing methods, personal desktop assignment, and security for host pools and session hosts.

We start this chapter by looking at deploying Windows Server licensing for those who want to move existing Server session hosts from on-premises to Azure Virtual Desktop. This may not be a common use case for Azure Virtual Desktop deployments, however, it's important that we cover this concept for those who require the use of Server session hosts within Azure Virtual Desktop.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Windows Server session host licensing
  • Configuring host pool settings
  • Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop load...