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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

Setting up alerts using alert rules

Within Log Analytics, you can query logs and set a frequency. You can also set an alert based on the output of the query. Rules can be triggered using one or more actions.

Tip

Using alerts to notify administrators or specified users about issues within your AVD environment can be helpful for those who are not continually monitoring the Insights page. This can also be useful for IT administrators who may be on-call or need to receive a text message or other notification of a possible issue/failure.

To set up an alert, proceed as follows:

  1. Start by typing monitor in the Azure search bar and click Monitor from the search results that appear, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
Figure 18.31 – Azure Monitor service within the search bar

Figure 18.31 – Azure Monitor service within the search bar

  1. Once within the Azure Monitor page, click on the Alerts icon located within the menu on the left, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
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