All You Need To Know on Azure Virtual Desktop
I have tried to consolidate a lot of content available online to learn and to operate Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I try to update the list from time to time. If you come across interesting information related to AVD, please contact me via LinkedIn.
The Azure Virtual Desktop is a github repository by Bart Roels
What’s new?
Relevant exams
- AZ-140 : Exam AZ-140 | Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Virtual Training Sessions: (Here)
- AZ-104 : Exam AZ-104 | Microsoft Azure Administrator (Here)
- Virtual Training Sessions: (Here)
Relevant Role Based Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (Here)
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate (Here)
TDB sorted
- Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop technical assessment: (Here)
Selected Learning Activities
Microsoft Learn
- Deliver remote desktops and apps from Azure with Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Introduction to Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (Here)
- Understand the Windows Virtual Desktop configuration workflow
- Prepare for Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (Here)
- Prepare your environment for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Provision an Azure tenant and set up Azure Active Directory
- Integrate Azure AD with Active Directory Domain Services
- Provision the required administrator roles in Azure AD
- Set up the Windows Virtual Desktop tenant
- Provision an Azure tenant and set up Azure Active Directory (Here)
- Integrate Azure AD with Active Directory Domain Services
- Provision the required administrator roles in Azure AD
- Set up the Windows Virtual Desktop tenant
- Deploy Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (Here)
- Review how to deploy Windows Virtual Desktop
- Provision a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool
- Configure apps and desktops for users
- Optimize Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (Here)
- Create separate roaming profiles for users by using FSLogix
- Migrate files and user profiles by using Azure File Sync
- Configure automatic scaling of session hosts
- Introduction to Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (Here)
Microsoft Partner Network
- Windows Virtual Desktop Sales and Business Value Fundamentals (Here)
- Introduction and WVD overview keynote (Here)
- WVD primary sales motions (Here)
- WVD architecture and capabilities (Here)
- WVD customer discussion value proposition and sales pillars (Here)
- WVD cost savings and solution configurator (Here)
- WVD business model pricing and licensing (Here)
- WVD ISV discussion (Here)
- Citrix with WVD (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop solution brief (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop slide deck (Here)
- Other useful Microsoft Partner Resources (Here)
Microsoft Docs (Here)
- Get started with the Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- What is Windows Virtual Desktop? (Here)
- Storage options for FSLogix profile containers in Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Set up MSIX app attach (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop partner integrations (Here)
- Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session FAQ (Here)
- Azure Pricing Calculator for WVD (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator (Here)
- Enable Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Use Azure Advisor with Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Use Microsoft Teams on Windows Virtual desktop (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop QuickStart (Here)
- Scale session hosts using Azure Automation (Here)
WVD Architectural – Planning Poster
- Desktop virtualization using Windows Virtual Desktop-service architecture (Here)
Microsoft Mechanics
- Windows Virtual Desktop Essentials – Intro and full tour (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure – (GA) Released (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – upcoming admin experience + recent updates (Microsoft Ignite) (Here)
- How to migrate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop updates for admins (2020) (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop 2020 updates | Microsoft Ignite 2020 (Here)
Accelerate Your Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment (Introducing WVD Spring 2020 Edition!)
- Intro to Windows Virtual Desktop – What’s coming with the service (Here)
- Prepare your environment for Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Deploy Windows Virtual Desktop using the new Azure Portal experience (Here)
- Best practices for profile management with FSLogix (Here)
- Modernize your image management strategy (Here)
- Optimizing your deployment (Here)
- Securing your deployment at scale (Here)
- Diagnostics in your Windows Virtual Desktop Environment (Here)
- Deployment best practices for latency-sensitive workloads (Here)
US Partner Windows Virtual Desktop Resource GitHub Repository (Here)
Azure Academy | Windows Virtual Desktop | WVD Series (Here) (Thank You! Dean Cefola)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #01 – Deployment (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #02 – Management (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #03 – User Profiles (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #04 – HA Profiles (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #05 – User Experiences (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #06 – Web Management (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #07 – Scale-Out (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #08 – WVD Azure ADDS (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #09 – WVD Diagnostics (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #10 – WVD Automation (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #11 – WVD Monitoring (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #12 – WVD Update Management (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #13 – WVD MSIX App Attach (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #14 – Scaling Automation (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #16 – Azure Files AD Auth & FSLogix (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #17 – Image Management (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #18 – Ezeep for Azure (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #19 – Stateless VMs (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #20 – New WVD Admin Portal (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #21 – WVD Network Security (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #22 – WVD Identity Security (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #23 – Update Session Hosts from Latest Image (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #24 – Session Host Security (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #25 – TEAMS AV Redirections (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #26 – GPU Powered VMs (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #27 – How to Setup Windows Virtual Desktop Monitoring Step by Step (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #28 – Windows Virtual Desktop Scaling Tool Generally Available (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #29 – Windows Virtual Desktop Optimizations Nuff Said! (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #30 – Before you turn off your Windows Virtual Desktop VMs YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS… (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop – #31 – You’ve never seen an Image Pipeline like this one | Azure Image Builde (Here)
Ciraltos – Travis Roberts – YouTube Playlist on WVD (Here)
- Automatically Start and Stop VM’s in a Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool with Azure Automation (Here)
- Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Load Balancing (Here)
- Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Service Principal Deployment! (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Spring Update (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Validation Host Pools (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop JoinDomain Error (Here)
- Auto Start and Stop Session Hosts in Windows Virtual Desktop Spring Update (ARM) with Azure Function (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop JoinDomain Error (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Email Discovery (Here)
- Monitoring Windows Virtual Desktop Spring Update with Log Analytics and Azure Monitor (Here)
- Back Up an Azure File Share with Azure Backup (Here)
- Enable MFA for WVD ARM (Here)
Blogs / Video
- Deploying Windows Virtual Desktop host pools with Terraform (Here)
- How to deploy a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool using Infrastructure as code from Azure DevOps (by Tom Hickling) (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop and IGEL OS : Better Together (Webinar)
- WVD Demos Spring 2020: Guided Simulation for Windows Virtual Desktop. (Here)
- Desktop in the Cloud. Your new TechTalk with people from Microsoft Engineering and the world-wide virtual desktop community! Hosted by Christiaan Brinkhoff and Dean Cefola (Here)
Windows Virtual Desktop related Blogs from Robin Hobo (MVP) (Here)
- How to create an Azure Service Principal for use with Windows Virtual Desktop AND Azure ARM Templates, like the ARM Template to Update an existing Windows Virtual Desktop hostpool (Here)
- How to start OneDrive (and automatically sign-in) when using a RemoteApp in Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Host Pool deployment error – Subscription is not registered (Here)
- How to configure Conditional Access with Session Management for Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- How to provision a Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool with Service Principal (Here)
- How to implement and manage Azure AD Domain Services (Azure AD DS) for a fast Windows Virtual Desktop PoC deployment (Here)
- How to update a custom Windows 10 multi-user image with LOB applications for Windows Virtual Desktop Preview (Here)
- How to create a custom Windows 10 multi-user image with LOB applications for Windows Virtual Desktop Preview Hostpool deployments (Here)
- How to fix “Server App” is not consented, so please consent Server App.” error when logging in to the Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Management Tool (Here)
- How to deploy Windows Virtual Desktop (Preview) and publish a Full Desktop and the Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus applications (Here)
- How to install and configure Microsoft Teams (Public Preview) for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) – Image Management : How to manage and deploy custom images (including versioning) with the Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG) (Here)
- How to change the default Windows Virtual Desktop “SessionDesktop” name to a more friendly one with PowerShell or GUI (Here)
- How to publish the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) (Here)
- How to get the Windows Virtual Desktop – Remote Desktop client for Windows – Insider version (Here)
- How to implement FSLogix Profile container using Azure Files and Active Directory authentication for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) (Here)
Windows Virtual Desktop related Blogs from Micha Wets (MVP)
- Solution for the 0x204 error when connecting to Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop running on Ephemeral OS Disks (Here)
- Windows virtual desktop ARM templates for the Spring 2020 edition (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Spring 2020 edition workshop (Here)
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(Video Part 1) (Video Part 2) (Video Part 3)
(Hands On Lab Instructions)
Windows Virtual Desktop related Blogs from Freek Berson (MVP)
- The next big innovation in Windows Virtual Desktop is here! (Here)
- Migrating your existing WVD Workloads to WVD Spring Update! (Here)
- Using WVD to provide secure and easy access to a management server in Azure! (Here)
- Test driving the Microsoft Teams AV Redirection and media optimizations preview for WVD! (Here)
- New GitHub Script: Automating the transformation of MSIX packages into MSIX app attach, ready for WVD! (Here)
- Getting started with REST API for WVD ARM (Spring) release, and sharing my GitHub examples! (Here)
- MSIX app attach in action, bringing Google Sketchup to a GPU powered WVD Desktop in seconds! (Here)
Windows Virtual Desktop related Blogs from Patrick Kohler
- Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool Automation – Part 1 (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool Automation – Part 2 (Here)
- Windows Virtual Desktop Host Pool Automation – Part 3 (Here)(Video)
- The complete guide: Microsoft Teams on WVD (Here)
- Windows 10 StartMenu optimization (Here)
- Improve the WVD application landscape experience (Here)
- Improve logon times without impacting the UX (Here)
Windows Virtual Desktop related Blogs from Christiaan Brinkhoff (Microsoft GBB WVD)
- Windows Virtual Desktop technical (2020 spring update – ARM-based model public preview) deployment walkthrough (Here)
- Youtube – Windows Virtual Desktop spring update (ARM-based) Azure Portal demo (Here)
- The future of application virtualization. Learn here how to create and configure MSIX app attach package(s) containers on Windows 10 Enterprise multi and single-session for Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Learn how to install and configure Microsoft Teams with AV Redirection media optimizations on Windows Virtual Desktop (Here)
- Learn about the three different options to remote control (shadow) your Windows Virtual Desktop sessions for helpdesk users (Here)