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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

Chapter 14: MSIX App Attach

In this chapter, we take a deep dive into MSIX app attach and the various terms and features associated with it. We then look at how to create an MSIX package and MSIX image. Then we progress on to configuring MSIX app attach and publishing a remote app using MSIX app attach. To finish off the chapter, we cover high-level troubleshooting for common issues.

In this chapter, we look at the following:

  • Configuring dynamic application delivery by using MSIX app attach
  • What is MSIX?
  • What does it look like inside MSIX?
  • What is MSIX app attach?
  • MSIX app attach terminology
  • An overview of how MSIX app attach works
  • Prerequisites
  • Creating an MSIX package
  • Creating an MSIX image
  • Configuring Azure files for MSIX app attach
  • Importing the code-signed certificate
  • Uploading MSIX images to Azure Files
  • Configuring MSIX app attach
  • Publishing an MSIX app to a RemoteApp
  • Troubleshooting MSIX app attach