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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

Importing the code-signed certificate

Before we upload MSIX images into the file share, we'll take a look at installing the code-signed certificate on all required session hosts.

You can essentially use three types of code-signed certificate with MSIX app attach:

  • Self-signed certificates
  • Public code signed certificates
  • Internal certificate authority certificates

    Tip

    Enterprises should use public code-signed certificates or an internal certificate authority. It's not recommended that you use a self-signed certificate for production use. It is also important to note that you should time stamp your application packages as if the certificate expires and you have not signed the MSIX package, then the app will stop working.

To install the certificate on a session host, you would open a new MMC snap-in for the local computer. You would then add the Certificates (Local Computer) snap-in and click OK:

Figure 14.33 – MMC snap-in and adding the Certificates snap-in for the local computer

Figure 14.33 – MMC...