Configure and Operate Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AZ-140T00)
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.
By the end of this course, students will be able to configure and operate Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop environments in enterprise settings. You will also learn to:
- Implement and manage session hosts, host pools, and session host images
- Manage FSLogix for user profile containers and application masking
- Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health
- Optimize environments to run in multi-session virtual environments
- Automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks using Azure-native tools
Students for AZ-140: Configure and Operate 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.
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.
- Azure Virtual Desktop for the enterprise
- Components, personal and pooled desktops
- Service updates and limitations
- VM sizing and pricing
- Network capacity and speed requirements
- Azure Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator
- OS recommendations
- Balancing host pools
- Subscriptions and management groups
- Metadata location and performance configuration
- Licensing models
- Personal vs multi-session scenarios
- Storage solutions for user data
- Desktop client deployment planning (RDP, multiple devices)
- Hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra ID
- Microsoft Entra Connect for identities
- RDP Shortpath planning and scenarios
- Bandwidth and connection quality analysis
- Internet and on-premises connectivity
- Azure Private Link implementation
- Bastion connections to VMs
- Network monitoring and troubleshooting with Network Watcher
- Storage planning for user data
- Azure Storage management
- Azure Files and NetApp Files tiers
- Storage account implementation
- Prerequisites and OS planning
- Host pool creation (Portal and CLI)
- Adding session hosts
- Customizing RDP properties
- Golden image creation
- Azure VM Image Builder and PowerShell
- Image updates and management
- Licensing for Windows client session hosts
- Installing language packs
- Identity and authentication strategies
- RBAC for Azure Virtual Desktop (roles, service principals)
- Conditional Access and MFA
- Integration with Microsoft Intune
- Security best practices and Zero Trust
- Defender for Cloud and Defender for Endpoint integration
- FSLogix overview and containers
- Profile and Office Containers
- Cloud Cache configuration
- FSLogix Apps RuleEditor and Application Masking
- Integration with Azure NetApp Files
- Remote Desktop client connections
- Session timeout and Start VM on Connect
- Universal Print
- Device redirections
- Client troubleshooting
- Application groups and RemoteApps
- User assignments
- OneDrive and Teams in multisession environments
- Microsoft 365 Apps on session hosts
- Dynamic app delivery with app attach/MSIX app attach
- Log collection and analysis
- Azure Monitor and custom workbooks
- Azure Advisor insights
- Scaling plans and performance optimization
- Backup strategies for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Disaster recovery planning
- Cost monitoring with Azure Cost Management