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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

An overview on how MSIX app attach works

There are typically five steps to delivering applications using Azure Virtual Desktop and MSIX app attach:

  1. You would sign in and select the host pool you should have access to from the Azure Virtual Desktop client. The process is similar to opening published desktops or RemoteApp applications from the Azure Virtual Desktop environment.
  2. You're assigned a virtual machine within the host pool from which a RemoteApp or Remote Desktop session is created. Then, the Azure Virtual Desktop client interacts with the session.
  3. If the user profile is configured, the FSLogix agent on the session host provides the user profile from the file share. The file share can be Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, or an infrastructure as a service (laaS) file server.
  4. Applications that are assigned to you are read from the Azure Virtual Desktop service.
  5. MSIX app attach applications are registered to the operating system for you from the attached...