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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

Using the Getting started feature without an identity provider

Interestingly, when deploying Azure Virtual Desktop using the Getting started feature without an identity provider, the wizard has fewer options. The reason for this is that the Getting started wizard will deploy the Azure Active Directory Services infrastructure as part of the wizard and will take care of the majority of the configurations. Let's take a look at using this feature without the identity provider settings:

  1. Within the Getting started wizard, in the Basics tab, under Identity provider, you will need to select No identity provider.
  2. Under the Identity service type section, you will see that the only option you have is Azure AD Domain Services; select it:
Figure 19.14 – Setting the No identity provider option

Figure 19.14 – Setting the No identity provider option

  1. You need to make sure that you set a Domain admin user name and Password as these credentials will be used with the deployed Azure Active Directory...