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

Creating and using an ACG

An ACG is a service that distributes images that can be shared across multiple regions and subscriptions within a Microsoft Entra ID (MEID) tenant. This is extremely useful for AVD as ACGs enable easy deployment of standard company desktop/server image templates across multiple Azure regions. One of the other benefits of Shared Image Galleries (SIGs) is that you can have different image versions and the newest can be referenced easily.

The following table details the different resource types within a SIG, now known as an ACG:

Tip

It is recommended that you become familiar with the terms within the following table before continuing.

Resource	Description
Image source	This is a resource that can be used to create an image version in an image gallery. An image source can be an existing Azure VM that is either generalized or specialized...