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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 Azure roles and RBAC for AVD

As with all Azure resources, AVD uses Azure RBAC to assign roles and permissions to both users and IT admins, as mentioned earlier. In this section, we will take a look at the RBAC roles that can be used within AVD, and I will show you how to apply these role assignments and create custom roles.

Tip

RBAC roles that are specific to AVD do appear in the AZ140 exam. It is advised that you pay attention to these different roles, as you might see a question in the exam.

AVD has many built-in management roles that you can use for host pools, app groups, and workspaces. This provides you with more granular control over administrative tasks, which can be extremely useful in larger organizations. It is recommended that all organizations leverage RBAC roles to use the least-privilege model ensuring access to systems is carefully controlled.

Additionally, it is important to note that the roles are named in compliance with Azure...