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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

Resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups limits

You can scale an Azure Virtual Desktop environment to over 10,000 sessions hosted per workspace.

It is advised that you consider the Azure Virtual Desktop control plane limitations during the initial design to limit any changes that may be required later:

  • Microsoft recommends that you do not deploy 5,000+ VMs per Azure subscription per region. This recommendation is for both host pool types – personal and pooled – for a Windows 10 Enterprise single and multi-session deployment. It is suggested that most organizations will want to use Windows 10 multi-session, which allows multiple users to log on to a session host VM. You can increase the resources (compute and storage) of an individual session host VM to facilitate additional remote sessions.
  • There are limits of circa 1,200 VMs per Azure subscription per region for automated session host scaling tools.
  • You should create multiple Azure subscriptions...