Live: Azure Virtual Desktop | What is it, how does it work and why should you care?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2023
- In this livestream I will cover what Azure Virtual Desktop is, how it works, what benefits it brings, do some demos and talk about the pricing. And of course try to answer any questions you may have.
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How to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop: • Azure Virtual Desktop ...
AVD Learn pages: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...
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![Azure Virtual Desktop [AZ-140] Bootcamp (12 Labs & 26 Exercises)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEjddntRnZk/mqdefault.jpg)
Excellent video, I really like the addition of the end user experience demo as most other TH-cam videos only concentrate on the setup.
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
One of the best videos I have watched about AVD, great work!
Thanks man! Really appreciate it!
Hello Peter,
I am studying for AZ-140, do you think that MS Learn materials + Azure Academy has 20 videos will be enough to pass the exam, do you think i need to do some labs, if so can you recommend like a guide or just how to perform it the lab itself. On what would you suggest for me to take more time to study, like more on sessions hosts, or AD DS, or monitoring,
Thanks for the content
Hi there!
I usually tell folks that they need to figure out what approach to learning works best for them. Because everyone is different and therefore absorb knowledge differently.
In terms of quantity and quality, the material on Learn and @AzureAcademy should be more than enough to get you through the AZ-140. But that's assuming that is the best way for you to learn.
Personally, I'm more of a practical learner so I basically lab'ed my way to the AZ-140.
That being said, I feel it's always a benefit to have seen and messed around with stuff yourself. Even if your preferred way of learning is by other means than doing labs.
The study guide for the AZ-140 (learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/certifications/resources/study-guides/AZ-140#skills-measured-as-of-april-27-2023) is actually in itself a decent lab guide. Since it lists stuff you should know, like "Create a session host by using a golden image", then you could try that yourself in a lab.
In terms of which areas to focus the most on, take guidance from the study guide since that lists what areas will be making up what percentage of the exam. As an example, the "Plan and implement identity and security" only accounts for 15-20% so if you need to prioritise between sessions hosts and AD DS then you should probably focus on session hosts since the "Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure" accounts for 40-45%.
Lastly, consider purchasing some practice tests from for example MeasureUp. They will give you some pointers both on the types of questions you will get and how proficient you are in the different areas.
We are a small web development team comprising 1x UI designer, 2x Frontend developers and 2x Backend developers, we are thinking of moving our development structure to Azure, at the moment we have a LAN network connecting few workstations, NAS machine, Webserver machine, SQL Server machine, cisco switches, firewall etc. Cloud you give us some direction if we should move or not? and some cost related information.
First of all, if you already have all that equipment and an established workflow that works for you and that you are happy with, then you should probably not move to Azure. Or any other cloud for that matter.
But there are a lot of reasons why you should move too, like the ability to be a lot more agile in your development workflow. Moving to Azure would for example allow you to make use of Static Web Apps that runs the code you store on GitHub, meaning as soon as you push a new update of your code your web app will be updated as well. Or make use of SQL as a service, potentially saving you money while allowing your devs to spin up more databases for testing purposes and so on.
Since you did comment on a video on Azure Virtual Desktop I will also give some pointers to you on that regard as well. Azure Virtual Desktop is at its best when used with multisession editions of windows. And using shared computers is not always a good fit when working with developers. So if the thought is that you wanted to use Azure Virtual Desktop as your primary workspace I would instead consider something like Dev Box or even Windows 365. They can both be connected to your own network as well if that is a requirement.
Lastly, some pointers on cost: If all the equipment you listed have all been bought and paid for then moving to a cloud solution would be more costly for you. That being said, there is a lot of services in Azure and other clouds that are super cheap. For example Static Web Apps, storage, SQL as a service (especially with serverless, where you can pause the database).
Hope this helps and best of luck to you 👌
For a small company (10 employees) we currently have a Windows Server 2012 R2 and a RDS farm set up. The DC is configured without any sync to Microsoft Entra. The DC is also configured with some basic network shares and a legacy app.
The employees are also using Microsoft Entra ID for their Microsoft cloud apps. As you can see they are using two separate identies (on -prem and cloud).
Now they want to move from this situation to AVD, because of a legacy app. This app needs to have acces to the shares as well. .
What I've done is the creation of a basic AVD setup with Windows Server 2022 Datacenter as a DC and two sessionhosts running Windows 11.
I can install the application and shares on the server as well but what will happen when I install Entra Connect on this server? And do I need to recreate the useraccounts on the DC?
In that kind of a scenario you might be better of using Entra Domain Services than a traditional DC since Entra Domain Services can sync users _from _ Entra ID.
If you were to install Entra Connect on that new server of yours nothing should really happen as that AD, as I interpret your description, doesn't have any users yet. But in order to make it a working setup you would need to create user accounts on the DC and match them with the existing cloud users. After that, Entra Connect will make sure to sync any changes in the user accounts on the DC to the cloud users.
So for the scenario you describe, my recommendation will be to ditch the DC and use Entra Domain Services instead. All the cloud users will then be synced to Entra Domain Services. Entra Domain Services will then function as your DCs and you can join your session hosts to that AD. Add in a server to host the file shares (or even better, use Azure Files) and you have a working setup 👍
I have a video on Entra Domain Services that you can find here: th-cam.com/video/HJZ1b2V8kCA/w-d-xo.html
The documentation can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/domain-services/overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004795
Thank you for this reply!
In the meanwhile I've configured the Microsoft Entra Domain Services. Am I right that there is no option to specify OU's and such? Because when adding a new session host I want to specify the OU the sessionhost registers.
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Yes and no :)
From the Azure side of things you do not manage OUs and such, but you can do so from a VM that you join to the domain. In that sense the AD is managed just like a regular on-prem AD, so GPOs and so can can also be managed from that VM.
Thanks!
I'm encountering some issues while adding some sessionhosts to the hostpool. I'm trying to domain join them to Active Directory. This results in Domainjoinedcheck:
This health check verifies that the session host is joined to a domain. If this check fails, it is fatal, and no connections will succeed. To solve this, join the virtual machine to a domain.
When I choose for Entra it seems to be working?
What about joining a VM to the domain from within the OS itself? I can ping the domain and DNS but I can't add it to the domain because of incorrect username/password?@@PetterTech
@@PetterTech I've set up some session hosts and joined them to Entra seemed to be the only option since joining them to Active Directory failed, guess this is the On prem AD? So I've joined them to Entra. But from the sessionhosts itself they are just joined to a default workgroup?
I can succesfully login with a cloud user via the Remote Client app.
I can't join the demo server to the domain. I can ping the domainname and DNS. I've got the message credentials sre incorrect?
how to image update life cycle or step to update & deploy
You have a couple of different options here, if you’re referring to using custom images I have two other videos that might help:
Custom Image Templates:
th-cam.com/video/o3A9J7CbCyA/w-d-xo.html
Custom Images In Azure Virtual Desktop | How to create and deploy:
th-cam.com/video/oIJ9BbjtPI0/w-d-xo.html
Hi. Can I hire you to help me setup Azure Virtual Desktop with correct security settings? If so, how can i contact you?
I'll take that as a compliment :)
But as I don't have my own business that would not be possible I'm afraid.