This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.
Students for AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure are interested in delivering applications on Windows Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. As a Windows Virtual Desktop administrator, you will closely with the Azure Administrators and Architects, along with Microsoft 365 Administrators. Windows Virtual Desktop administrator responsibilities include planning, deploying, packaging, updating, and maintaining the Azure Windows Virtual Desktop infrastructure. They also create session host images, implement and manage FSLogix, monitor Windows Virtual Desktop performance, and automate Windows Virtual Desktop management tasks.
1 - Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
Azure Virtual Desktop for the enterprise
Azure Virtual Desktop components
Personal and pooled desktops
Service updates for Azure Virtual Desktop desktops
Azure limitations for Azure Virtual Desktop
Virtual machine sizing for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop pricing
2 - Design the Azure Virtual Desktop architecture
Assess network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator
Recommend an operating system for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
Balancing host pools
Recommendations for using subscriptions and management groups
Configure a location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata
Recommend a configuration for performance requirements
3 - Design for user identities and profiles
Select an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop based on requirements
Personal and multi-session desktop scenarios
Recommend an appropriate storage solution
Plan for a desktop client deployment
Plan for Azure Virtual Desktop client deployment - Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Windows Desktop client to multiple devices
Hybrid Identity with Microsoft Entra ID
Plan for Microsoft Entra Connect for user identities
4 - Implement and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop
Plan implement remote desktop protocol shortpath
Analyze connection quality in Azure Virtual Desktop
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) bandwidth requirements
RDP Shortpath for Azure Virtual Desktop
RDP Shortpath for Azure Virtual Desktop sample scenarios
Manage connectivity internet premises Networks
Plan and implement an Azure Private Link solution for Azure Virtual Desktop
Create an RDP connection to a Windows VM using Azure Bastion
Monitor troubleshoot Network Watcher
5 - Implement and manage storage for Azure Virtual Desktop
Plan storage for Azure Virtual Desktop user data
Azure storage management
Azure Files tiers
Azure NetApp Files tiers
Implement storage accounts for Azure Virtual Desktop
6 - Create and configure host pools and session hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop
Prerequisites for Azure Virtual Desktop
Operating systems and Azure regions
Network and Remote Desktop client planning
Create a host pool
Create a host pool using the Azure portal
Add session hosts to a host pool
Customize Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) properties for a host pool
7 - Create and manage session host image for Azure Virtual Desktop
Create a golden image in Azure
Using Azure VM Image Builder
Create an Azure Virtual Desktop image by using VM Image Builder and PowerShell
Plan for image update and management
Manage licensing for session hosts that run Windows client
Install language packs in Azure Virtual Desktop
8 - Manage access for Azure Virtual Desktop
Selecting an identity strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop
Selecting an authentication strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop
Role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop
Plan and implement Azure roles and role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop
Assign RBAC roles to the Azure Virtual Desktop service principals
Enforce Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication for Azure Virtual Desktop using Conditional Access
Using Azure Virtual Desktop with Microsoft Intune
9 - Manage security for Azure Virtual Desktop
Security recommendations for Azure Virtual Desktop
Connect your Azure subscriptions to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Azure Virtual Desktop sessions
Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment
Plan and implement Conditional Access policies for connections to Azure Virtual Desktop
Security posture management and threat protection
10 - Implement and manage FSLogix
Overview of FSLogix
Understand FSLogix containers
Configure FSLogix Profile Containers
Configure FSLogix Office Containers
Configure profile containers with Cloud Cache
Using FSLogix Apps RuleEditor and Rule Sets
Create and Implementing Rule Sets for Application Masking
Implement Azure NetApp Files for Azure Virtual Desktop
11 - Configure user experience settings
Connect to Azure Virtual Desktop with the Remote Desktop client for Windows
Configure session timeout properties
Implement the Start Virtual Machine on Connect feature
Configure Universal Print
Configure device redirections
Troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop clients
12 - Install and configure apps on a session host
Create and configure an application group
Assign users to application groups
Publish an application as a RemoteApp
Implement and manage OneDrive, including multisession environments
Implement and manage Microsoft Teams for Remote Desktop
Implement and manage Microsoft 365 Apps on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts
Configure dynamic application delivery by using app attach or MSIX app attach
Create an application package for app attach or MSIX app attach
13 - Monitor and manage performance and health
Configure log collection and analysis for Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts
Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Monitor
Customize Azure Monitor workbooks for Azure Virtual Desktop Insights
Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Advisor
Implement scaling plans in host pools
Optimize capacity and performance
14 - Plan and implement updates, backups, and disaster recovery
Disaster recovery for Azure Virtual Desktop
Design and implement a backup strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop
Monitor costs by using Azure Cost Management
