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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

Application Masking

Application Masking is a part of the FSLogix portfolio that can manage access to applications, fonts, and other items based on criteria. The Apps RuleEditor is used to create app masking rules, edit rules, manage user and group assignments, and test created rule sets. This is incredibly useful for controlling application access via user groups.

To get started with Application Masking, you need to install the application FSLogixAppRuleEditorSetup.exe, which can be downloaded with the other FSLogix products here: https://aka.ms/fslogix/download.

Rule types available

Application Masking supports the following four rule types:

  • Specify Value rule: Used to assign a value for the specified item
  • App Container rule: Used to redirect applications or app data to a specified VHD
  • Redirection rule: Used to redirect applications or app data to a specified item
  • Hiding rule: Used to redirect applications or app data to a specified criteria
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