Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop

Learn How to Deploy AVD and Publish Your First Desktop

What you’ll learn:
Dive into to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in this introductory course and learn how to prepare the infrastructure, deploy AVD, and publish your first desktop.
Deploying Required Azure Infrastructure
Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop
Everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with AVD

Requirements
We recommend that you have basic sysadmin skills to be successful in this course.

Description
Dive into to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in this introductory course and learn how to prepare the infrastructure, deploy AVD, and publish your first desktop. Here’s what you will learn in this course:

Azure Virtual Desktop Overview

In this section, we’ll cover a quick overview of Azure Virtual Desktop and explain how this is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud. We’ll also help you get ready to follow along with the labs.

Course Overivew

Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop

Course Materials & How to Follow Along

Deploying Required Infrastructure

Now that you are familiar with the foundations of AVD, you’ll learn how to deploy the required infrastructure, including virtual networks, Azure AD, DNS, and more. In this section you’ll learn:

Creating the hub VNet

Exploring Desired State Configuration for Active Directory VM Configuration

Deploying an Active Directory Domain Services VM

Creating identities in Active Directory for AVD deployment testing

Synchronising identities to Azure Active Directory

Creating and peering a spoke VNet

Setting up DNS and testing domain join

Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop

Now that our infrastructure is up and running we can dive deeper into AVD deployments. In this section you’ll learn:

Understanding the components of AVD

Register resource provider and create a workspace

Creating a hostpool and session hosts

Assign a user and connect

Assigning groups and viewing workspace configuration

Exploring hostpool information in the Azure portal

Device redirection options from the Azure portal

Load balancing options and using the web client

Image Management Container Profiles and Remote apps

Having a great deployment experience means having a variety of images to choose from. In this section you’ll learn:

Lab intro and Windows profile with FSLogix lecture

Domain join a storage account on a private endpoint

Configure permissions and Group Policy for FSLogix

Manually creating a golden image and setting up shared image gallery

Update a hostpool to a new golden image

Publishing a remote app

Who this course is for
Beginner Azure Administrators