Assessing existing physical and Virtual Desktop environments
Before we can look at the components of Azure Virtual Desktop, we need to understand the current environment, the requirements, and other information that would be useful.
Assessing Azure Virtual Desktop deployments
When tackling the design of Azure Virtual Desktop, the first thing we must do is look at the current desktop estate within the organization's environment. The desktop estate could be purely physical, virtual, or a mixture of both physical and virtual. Suppose your organization is deploying a virtual desktop environment for the first time (greenfield deployment). In this case, you should still assess your physical desktop estate to understand the applications, data, and profile usage within your organization.
The desktop assessment should evaluate areas including the user's persona, consistent host pool types of virtual machines, applications, and user profiles. The data that's gathered...
