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    Course Description

    This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. 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. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.

    Audience Profile

    Students for AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop are interested in delivering applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. As an Azure Virtual Desktop administrator, you will closely with the Azure Administrators and Architects, along with Microsoft 365 Administrators. Azure Virtual Desktop administrator responsibilities include planning, deploying, packaging, updating, and maintaining the Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure. They also create session host images, implement and manage FSLogix, monitor Azure Virtual Desktop performance, and automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks.

    Course Outline

    Course Outline

    Skills at a glance

    • Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (40–45%)

    • Plan and implement identity and security (15–20%)

    • Plan and implement user environments and apps (20–25%)

    • Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (10–15%)

    Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (40–45%)

    Plan, implement, and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Assess network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Calculate and recommend a configuration for network requirements

    • Plan and implement Azure virtual network connectivity

    • Manage connectivity to the internet and on-premises networks

    • Plan and implement Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Shortpath and quality of service (QoS) policies

    • Plan and implement Azure Private Link with Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Plan and implement name resolution for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Monitor and troubleshoot network connectivity

    Plan and implement storage for Azure Virtual Desktop user data

    • Plan storage for Azure Virtual Desktop user data

    • Implement storage for FSLogix components

    • Implement storage accounts

    • Implement file shares

    • Implement Azure NetApp Files

    Plan host pools and session hosts

    • Recommend resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups

    • Recommend an operating system (OS) for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation

    • Recommend an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop based on requirements

    • Plan a host pools architecture

    • Calculate and recommend a configuration for performance requirements

    • Calculate and recommend a configuration for Azure Virtual Machines capacity requirements

    Implement host pools and session hosts

    • Create host pools and session hosts by using the Azure portal

    • Automate creation of Azure Virtual Desktop hosts and host pools by using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates), and Bicep

    • Configure host pool and session host settings

    • Apply a Windows client or Windows Server license to a session host

    Create and manage session host images

    • Create a golden image manually

    • Create a golden image by using Azure virtual machine Image Builder

    • Modify a session host image

    • Plan and implement lifecycle management for images

    • Apply OS and application updates to an image

    • Create a session host by using a golden image

    • Plan and implement image storage

    • Create and manage Azure Compute Gallery

    Plan and implement identity and security (15–20%)

    Plan and implement identity integration

    • Choose an identity management and authentication method

    • Identify Azure Virtual Desktop requirements for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Microsoft Entra Domain Services, and Microsoft Entra ID

    • Plan and implement Azure roles and role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Plan and implement Conditional Access policies for connections to Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Plan and implement multifactor authentication in Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Manage roles, groups, and rights assignments on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts

    Plan and implement security

    • Plan, implement, and manage security for Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

    • Configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus for session hosts

    • Implement and manage network security for connections to Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Configure Azure Bastion or just-in-time (JIT) for administrative access to session hosts

    • Plan and implement Windows Threat Protection features on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts, including Windows Defender Application Control

    • Plan for and implement Confidential VM and Trusted Launch security features for Azure Virtual Desktop host pool provisioning

    Plan and implement user environments and apps (20–25%)

    Plan and implement FSLogix

    • Recommend FSLogix configuration

    • Install and configure FSLogix

    • Configure Profile Containers

    • Configure Office Containers

    • Configure Cloud Cache

    Plan and implement user experience and client settings

    • Choose an Azure Virtual Desktop client and deployment method

    • Deploy and troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop clients

    • Configure device redirection

    • Configure multimedia redirection

    • Configure printing and Universal Print

    • Configure user settings through Group Policy and Microsoft Intune policies

    • Configure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) properties on a host pool

    • Configure session timeout properties

    • Implement the Start Virtual Machine on Connect feature

    • Assign and unassign personal desktops for users

    Install and configure apps on a session host

    • Choose a method for deploying an app to Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Configure dynamic application delivery by using MSIX app attach

    • Publish an application as a RemoteApp

    • Implement FSLogix application masking

    • Implement and manage OneDrive, including multisession environments

    • Implement and manage Microsoft Teams, including the Remote Desktop WebRTC Redirector Service

    • Implement and manage Microsoft 365 apps on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts

    • Implement and manage browsers for Azure Virtual Desktop sessions

    • Create and configure an application group

    • Assign users to application groups

    Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (10–15%)

    Monitor and manage Azure Virtual Desktop services

    • Configure log collection and analysis for Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts

    • Configure Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring by using Azure Monitor

    • 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

    • Optimize session host capacity and performance

    • Implement autoscaling in host pools

    • Monitor and manage active sessions and application groups

    • Configure automation for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Automate management of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions by using PowerShell and Azure CLI

    Plan, implement, and maintain business continuity

    • Recommend an update strategy for session hosts

    • Plan and implement a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Plan for multi-region implementation

    • Design a backup strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop

    • Configure backup and restore for FSLogix user profiles, personal virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), and golden images

     

    Duration

    4 Days

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