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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

Configuring backup and restore for FSLogix user profiles, personal virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), and golden images

In this section, we look at backing up and restoring Azure Virtual Desktop components. We first take a look at backup and restore.

Virtual machine backup and restore

When managing personal host pools, you may want to back up the session hosts when local profiles are used. In this section, we'll look at how to take a backup of a session host virtual machine.

We start by creating an Azure Recovery Vault for Azure Virtual Desktop, the steps for which are as follows:

  1. First, navigate to the Azure portal.
  2. Search for Backup Center in the Azure portal and navigate to the Backup Center dashboard.
  3. Click on Vault, located in the main menu of the page.
Figure 16.6 – Azure Backup center page

Figure 16.6 – Azure Backup center page

  1. Within the Create Vault page, select Recovery Services vault and then click Continue:
Figure 16.7 – Create Vault page within Backup center ...