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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

Managing local roles, groups, and rights assignments on AVD session hosts

In this section, we will take a look at managing local roles, groups, and rights assignments. When working in a pooled desktop environment, it's important to ensure that each session host is configured to ensure the user experience is identical for each host within the pool. When configuring local roles, groups, and rights assignments, you can configure these on the gold master image (image template) or configure group policy to apply to single or multiple host pools centrally.

Tip

Using group policy is great when working with multiple host pools, as you don't need to worry about customizing the image with roles, groups, and rights assignments.

The use of local roles and groups might be required for specific requirements such as applications or allowing additional access permissions to the local operating system.

For example, if you are using FSLogix profile containers, you might wish to...