Deploying images to Azure Virtual Desktop

With the decreased costs of cloud computing, the adoption of remote work, and collaborating with business partners or vendors from all over the world, the virtualized desktop is a great solution for supporting your business needs. In Chapter 3, Hardware and Virtualization, we provided an overview of the features that are available when you're using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), including support for both Windows 11 multi-session persistent and non-persistent hosts. Let's review a few concepts for managing hosts in Azure and ways to build custom images that can be used for virtual machines that have been deployed to the AVD service.

There are many reference materials available on the internet, including dedicated groups and forums focused specifically on administering the Azure Virtual Desktop environment. If you're using the AVD service in your environment, you're strongly encouraged to join these groups as the technology...