Assessing Existing Physical and Virtual Environments

An important aspect of any Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment is ensuring it is designed to not only meet best practices standards but also meet your organization’s requirements. To get the most out of this cloud-hosted service, it is important to use the correct features and components that make up the AVD environment which will, in turn, give a much better experience for your users. 

This lesson will help you design and plan your Azure Virtual Desktop environment and allow you to understand how it integrates with other Azure services. It covers understanding network and sizing requirements, recommending the correct identity and access management (IAM) solution to integrate with AVD, the operating system (OS) options that support AVD, and a closer look at the different host pool types with use cases they fit into.

Learning Objectives

• Assessing existing physical and virtual desktop environments
• Assessing network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop
• Recommending an operating system for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
• Planning and configuring name resolution for Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS)
• Planning host pools architecture
• Recommending resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
• Configuring a location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata
• Calculating and recommending a configuration for performance requirements

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for people who want to become an Azure Virtual Desktop Specialist and/or are preparing to take the AZ-140 exam.

Prerequisites

If you wish to get the most out of this lesson, it is recommended that you should have a good understanding of Azure Administration, however, this is not essential.