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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

Configuring Universal Print

What is Universal Print? This is a cloud-managed print service that's provided by Microsoft through Microsoft Azure. Universal Print runs solely on Microsoft Azure. So, when it's deployed with Universal Print-compatible printers, you do not require any on-premises infrastructure to use the service.

The service is essentially a Microsoft 365 subscription-based service that you can use to centralize print management through the Universal Print portal. It's important to note that this service is fully integrated into Azure Active Directory and supports single sign-on scenarios.

This section will look at Universal Print and how you can use this Azure service with Azure Virtual Desktop.

Let's take a quick look at its architecture:

Figure 13.1 – The component architecture of universal print

Figure 13.1 – The component architecture of universal print

The universal print service leverages the following components:

The preceding table...