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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

Monitoring and troubleshooting network connectivity

This section briefly covers some of the tools you can use to monitor and troubleshoot network connectivity issues for AVD. This section provides a high-level overview as we cover both Log Analytics and Azure Monitor in Chapter 18, Monitoring and Managing Performance and Health.

Important Note

Ensure that you have configured DNS correctly since, if the session hosts cannot see the domain controller, the provisioning process may fail on the next step. You should ensure that the VNet is configured with AD as a DNS server.

Using Azure Monitor to diagnose network issues

Azure Monitor Logs is a collection of features that collects and organizes log and performance data from Azure resources (monitored).

The data is collected from different sources, such as Azure services and VM agents, which are then consolidated into a single Log Analytics workspace to be analyzed. You can perform simple queries that retrieve specific datasets...