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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

Configure storage accounts

This section will look at creating a storage account and configuring data protection.

To create a storage account, you need to follow the stepwise procedure detailed in the following subsections.

Step 1 – create a new storage account

From the left menu within the Azure portal, select Storage accounts to display a list of your storage accounts. You can also search for storage accounts in the top search bar. This is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.1 – Using the search bar to show the Storage accounts service in the Azure portal

Figure 5.1 – Using the search bar to show the Storage accounts service in the Azure portal

Once on the Storage accounts page, you will see all the storage accounts and an icon to create one in the page's navigation bar. To create a new storage account, click Create:

Figure 5.2 – Storage accounts

Once you have clicked Create, we can move on to the next section.

Step 2 – configure the basics

Once you...