Planning for Azure Virtual Desktop Client Deployment

An important aspect of designing an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment is ensuring you understand user identities and profiles.  To get the most out of this cloud-hosted service, it is important to ensure our user identities are fully secure and integrated with the storage solutions you use for user profiles.  This will in turn give a much better experience for your users. 

 AVD allows organizations to set up redundant, scalable, and agile environments that offer the following key capabilities:

• Integration with both cloud and on-premises identity and access management solutions
• Configuring Azure native and 3rd party storage solutions to facilitate user profiles
• Complete licensing solution that covers both Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft 365 SaaS services

From an identity perspective, you can synchronize your Azure cloud identities with on-premises Active Directory.  This allows you to utilize hybrid join for your Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts and integrate your user profiles with Group Policy.  

This lesson will help you design and plan your Azure Virtual Desktop identity and user profiles and allow you to understand how it integrates with other Azure services.  It covers understanding choosing the appropriate licensing model, looking at the different storage solutions available, planning for user profiles, and planning for Azure AD Connect for identities.

Learning Objectives

• Select an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop based on requirements
• Recommend an appropriate storage solution (including Azure NetApp Files vs. Azure Files)
• Planning for Azure Virtual Desktop client deployment
• Planning for user profiles
• Recommending a solution for network connectivity
• Planning for Azure AD Connect for user identities

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for anyone who wants to become an Azure Virtual Desktop Specialist and is preparing to take the AZ-140 exam.

Prerequisites

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