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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

Post-deployment cleanup

Once you have deployed Azure Virtual Desktop, you will see that two resource groups have been created – one marked with a prefix of -avd, which specifies all the resources you require for Azure Virtual Desktop to function, and another marked with a prefix of -deployment, which specifies all the resources that will be used to automate the deployment of the Azure Virtual Desktop environment within your subscription:

Figure 19.17 – Two resource groups created by the Getting started feature

If you have used the Getting started feature to deploy an Azure Virtual Desktop environment without an identity, such as when using a new Azure AD DS, then you will see three resource groups marked with the -deployment, -avd, and -Prerequisite prefixes.

In the following screenshot, you can see the resources that have been used to deploy the Azure Virtual Desktop environment:

Figure 19.18 – The -deployment resource group's contents

Figure 19.18 – The -deployment...