Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty

Course objectives

This course teaches IT Professionals how to plan, deploy, update and maintain the Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

Benefits

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe AVD and how it works
• Decide whether Azure Virtual Desktop is a good choice for your organization
• Describe the steps involved and resources you need to prepare for Azure Virtual Desktop deployment.
• Create separate roaming profiles for users by using FSLogix
• Migrate files and user profiles by using Azure File Sync
• Configure automatic scaling
• Secure the user identity that can access the Azure Virtual Desktop environment.
• Use AppLocker to secure the desktop.
• Transform existing applications by using the MSIX packaging tool.
• Deploy MSIX app attach.
• How to evaluate and identify a redundancy option for AVD.
• How to plan a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy.

This course is directly mapped to and supports learning for the AZ-140 Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop certification exam.

Training scope

Module 0: Course Introduction

Module 01: Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

Module 02: Design the Azure Virtual Desktop architecture

Module 03: Design for user identities and profiles

Module 04: Implement and manage networking for AVD

Module 05: Implement and manage storage for AVD

Module 06: Create and configure host pools and session hosts for Azure Virtual Desktop

Module 07: Create and manage session host image for AVD

Module 08: Manage access for Azure Virtual Desktop

Module 09: Manage security for Azure Virtual Desktop

Module 10: Implement and manage FSLogix

Module 11: Configure user experience settings

Module 12: Install and configure apps on a session host

Module 13: Plan for disaster recovery

Module 14: Automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks

Module 15: Monitor and manage performance and health

Audience

The course is intended for Azure administrators who want to gain knowledge of creating and managing a VDI environment in Azure.

It is recommended to have 12 months of experience and an Azure Administrator certificate.