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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

Enabling enhanced security for AVD

This section summarizes the basic steps for enabling enhanced security for Microsoft Defender for Cloud on your Azure subscription. This will allow you to use the more advanced features of Security Center at a cost.

The link to pricing can be found here: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/azure-defender/.

Important Note

You will need to enable enhanced security for Microsoft Defender for Cloud for each subscription you use.

The basic steps for enabling Azure Defender on your Azure subscription are as follows:

  1. Navigate to Security Center located on the left-hand menu. Within the Microsoft Defender for Cloud menu, select Environment settings. The following screenshot shows the Environment settings menu option, which lists the subscriptions:
Figure 11.21 – Pricing and settings page in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Figure 11.21 – Pricing and settings page in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  1. Click on the required Azure subscription.
  2. Select Enable all...