An important aspect of any Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment is ensuring you automate management of the environment where you can. To get the most out of this cloud-hosted service, it is important to ensure you are utilizing automation to limit the amount of time spent doing manual tasks. This will give a much better experience for your users and administrators. From an automation perspective, you can utilize Azure native services to facilitate automating daily management tasks which will minimize manual intervention by admins.
This course will help you plan and automate management tasks for your Azure Virtual Desktop and help you understand how it integrates with other Azure native automation services.
Learning Objectives
- Configure automation for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Automate management of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions by using PowerShell and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Implement autoscaling in host pools
Intended Audience
This course is intended for anyone who wants to become an Azure Virtual Desktop Specialist and/or those preparing to take the AZ-140 exam.
Prerequisites
If you wish to get the most out of this course, it is recommended that you have a good understanding of Azure administration, although it's not essential.
We covered a lot of important topics in this module. The first lecture was on configuring automation for Azure Virtual Desktop, where we talked about how scaling works and some of its configurable values. We then looked at the prerequisites for automation, and finally the high-level steps you need to complete when configuring automation with Azure Virtual Desktop.
In the second lecture, we dived into automating management of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions by using both PowerShell and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI). This was a demo-heavy lecture where I did a demo using PowerShell and then a demo using Azure CLI for automation tasks for AVD.
In the final lecture of this module, we looked at implementing autoscaling in a host pool. Here, we looked at AVD scaling plans in more detail, followed by the requirements for autoscaling in AVD, and finished off with a demo of configuring a scaling plan.
Shabaz Darr is a Senior Infrastructure Specialist at Netcompany based in the UK. He has 15 years plus experience working in the IT industry, 7 of those he has spent working with Microsoft Cloud Technologies in general, with a focus on MEM and IaaS. Shabaz is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility with certifications in Azure Administration and Azure Virtual Desktop. During his time working with Microsoft Cloud, Shabaz has helped multiple public and private sector clients in the UK with designing and implementing secure Azure Virtual Desktop environments.