AZ-140 Training: Configuring and Operating Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty

Configuring and Operate Azure Virtual Desktop  (AZ-140)

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You Will Learn How To:

• Configure and operate Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop environment
• Select an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop
• Implement networking for Azure Virtual Desktop
• Manage Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts by using Azure Bastion
• Configure storage for FSLogix components
• Create and manage session host images
• Implement Azure roles and role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop
• Configure user Azure Virtual Desktop experience settings
• Install and configure apps on a session host
• Implement business continuity and disaster recovery
• Monitor and manage Azure Virtual Desktop performance

This AZ-140 Configuring and Operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure Course

Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. 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.

Course Outline

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module12:  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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessment

Module 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
• Module assessmen