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

Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools

In this chapter, we will look at configuring Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) host pools. This includes configuring licenses for server-based multi-session deployments, host pool settings, using PowerShell to customize RDP properties, load-balancing methods, personal desktop assignment, and securing host pools and session hosts.

We start this chapter by looking at deploying Windows Server licensing for those who want to move existing Windows Server session hosts from on-premises to AVD. This may not be a common use case for AVD deployments; however, it’s important that we cover this concept for those who require the use of Windows Server session hosts within AVD.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter: