Course Description: AZ-1005: Configuring Azure Virtual Desktop for the Enterprise

This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage remote applications and virtual desktop experiences for any type of device in Azure. Lessons include deploying and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop , configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, deploying and managing FSLogix , monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop health and performance, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Through a combination of condensed demonstrations, students will learn how to deploy virtual desktop experiences in Azure Virtual Desktop and run them in multi-session virtual environments. This course assumes familiarity with Azure Virtual Desktop, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery.

Intermediate - Azure - Administrator

Addressed to

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop for Enterprise configuration is concerned with delivering applications to Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to work in multi-session virtual environments. As an Azure Virtual Desktop administrator, you will work closely with Azure administrators and architects, as well as Microsoft 365 administrators. An Azure Virtual Desktop administrator's responsibilities include planning, deploying, packaging, updating, and maintaining Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure.

Training Route

Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment

• Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture: Azure Virtual Desktop manages the infrastructure and brokering components, while customers manage their own virtual machines (VMs) and desktop host clients. Microsoft manages the Remote Connection Gateway and Connection Broker services as part of Azure.
• Designing Azure Virtual Desktop architecture: Designing Azure Virtual Desktop requires you to evaluate network speed and capacity requirements, select a load balancing method for your Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, and choose the appropriate Windows Desktop client.
• Design user identities and profiles: Users require access to those applications both on-premises and in the cloud. Use the Remote Desktop client for Windows desktop to access Windows applications and desktops remotely from a different Windows device.

Deploying an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Azure Virtual Desktop network deployment and management: Learn how to monitor and repair the health of your Azure Virtual Desktop instance, including virtual machines, virtual networks, application gateways, and load balancers.
• Azure Virtual Desktop Storage Deployment and Management - FSLogix uses roaming profiles in remote computing environments such as Azure Virtual Desktop. Configure an FSLogix profile container share for a group of hosts using a VM-based file share.
• Create and configure host pools and session hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop - Learn how to configure the assignment type of a personal desktop host pool to fine-tune your Azure Virtual Desktop environment to best fit your needs.
• Creating and managing a session host image for Azure Virtual Desktop: A shared image gallery simplifies sharing custom images across an organization. Custom images can be used to perform bootstrap deployment tasks such as preloading applications, application configurations, and other operating system settings.

Managing user and application environments for Azure Virtual Desktop

• Deploying and Administering FSLogix: A user profile contains data elements about a user's information, such as desktop settings, persistent network connections, and application settings.
• User Experience Configuration: Persistent virtual desktops save the operating system state across reboots. The virtual desktop provides users with easy and seamless access to their assigned virtual machines, often with a single sign-on solution.
• Installing and configuring applications on a session host: MSIX App Attach is a way to deliver applications in MSIX to virtual and physical machines. MSIX App Attach is different from regular MSIX because it is specific to Azure Virtual Desktop.

Monitoring and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

• Plan for disaster recovery: You can replicate virtual machines (VMs) to the secondary Azure Virtual Desktop location. You can use Azure Site Recovery to manage replicating VMs to other Azure locations.
• Automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks: Reduce Azure Virtual Desktop deployment costs by scaling virtual machines (VMs). This means that session host VMs are shut down and deallocated during off-peak hours, and then reactivated and reallocated during peak hours.
• Monitoring and managing performance and health: To view any issues with Azure Virtual Desktop, check Azure Advisor first. Azure Advisor will provide you with instructions on how to resolve the issue, or at least point you to a resource that can help.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies relevant to migration to Azure Virtual Desktop is recommended. Students are expected to have used tools common to the Azure environment, such as Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
• Labs: English / Spanish