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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 security by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud was previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender. I want to set some context around the reasoning and detail of the responsibilities split between Microsoft and the customer.

We previously spoke about some advanced security features, such as reverse connect, which reduces the risk of exposing virtual desktop resources directly to the public network. We'll now look at the security responsibilities and some of the Azure security best practices available to you.

Here are the security areas you're responsible for in your AVD deployment. Note that the value under the Customer responsibility column is Yes if the customer is responsible and No if Microsoft is responsible:

This table was taken from the following Microsoft link:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/security-guide#security-responsibilities

As detailed in the...