You're reading from Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop A practical guide to designing, implementing, and managing Azure Virtual Desktop environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835884140

Length 718 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Ryan Mangan

Neil McLoughlin

Marcel Meurer

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Virtual Desktop

3. Part 2:Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

4. Chapter 2: Designing the Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

5. Chapter 3: Designing for User Identities and Profiles

6. Chapter 4: Implementing and Managing Networking for Azure Virtual Desktop

7. Chapter 5: Implementing and Managing Storage for Azure Virtual Desktop

8. Part 3:Implementing an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

9. Chapter 6: Creating Host Pools and Session Hosts

10. Chapter 7: Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools

11. Chapter 8: Entra ID Join for Azure Virtual Desktop

12. Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Session Host Images

13. Part 4:Managing Access and Security

14. Chapter 10: Managing Access

15. Chapter 11: Managing Security

16. Part 5:Managing User Environments and Apps

17. Chapter 12: Implementing and Managing FSLogix

18. Chapter 13: Configuring User Experience Settings

19. Chapter 14: MSIX App Attach

20. Chapter 15: Configuring Apps on a Session Host

21. Part 6:Monitoring and Maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

22. Chapter 16: Planning and Implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

23. Chapter 17: Automating Azure Virtual Desktop Management Tasks

24. Chapter 18: Monitoring and Managing Performance and Health

25. Chapter 19: Azure Virtual Desktop’s Quickstart Feature

26. Final Assessment

27. Index

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Appendix

Managing AVD session hosts using Azure Bastion

In this section, we will look at Azure Bastion as an additional layer of security for accessing VMs securely through an HTML5 browser within the Azure portal.

What is Azure Bastion?

Azure Bastion is a platform-managed service that enables admins to connect to VMs in Azure using their web browser. The service makes it easy to connect securely to your VMs directly from the Azure portal over a transport layer security (TLS) connection. Azure Bastion also removes the need for public IPs or remote desktop services ports to open on your NSGs for the internet.

When using Azure Bastion, you use the Azure portal to connect the VM, which is essentially an HTML5 TLS connection. The Bastion deployment then connects to the resources securely inside the VNet using RDP or the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, depending on the VM remote protocol requirement.

Important note

Azure Bastion uses port 443; ensure that you configure the NSG for this...