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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

Troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop clients

In this section, we will look at troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop client issues and some hints and tips to help you on your way with diagnosing problems.

You need to ensure that your user can communicate with the Azure Virtual Desktop service and on corporate devices; you should add the correct firewall rules to do so.

The following table details the required URLs that the client should be able to access:

The preceding table was taken from https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/safe-url-list#remote-desktop-clients.

In the next section, we will look at testing connectivity to help you troubleshoot any issues.

Testing connectivity

This subsection will look at how to test that the client can communicate correctly with Azure Virtual Desktop. We will look at two tests – one that uses PsPing and another that uses nslookup.

You can also complete client tests using Sysinternals...