Azure AVD Workshop

This workshop is aimed at beginners, advanced users, and professionals (Level 200-300). It covers practical aspects such as planning an environment in terms of setup and pricing, creating golden images, implementing Azure Files for user profile roaming, setting up MSIX App Attach, load balancing, automatically starting and stopping hosts, backup, handling updates, and maintaining the environment. The workshop demonstrates in a very hands-on manner how to create a comprehensive environment perfectly tailored to the end customer and use case.

Agenda:

Planning Setup

• Number of users, pooled or personal setup, AD Classic, ADDS or domainless, scaleset, hybrid or cloud-only, load type, egress traffic, VPN, backup host and Azure Files
• Azure calculation
• Licensing

Implementation

• Setup domain
• Classic AD
• ADDS
• Single Sign-On

Image Creation

• Golden image
• Cleanup
• Language pack
• Applications
• AV redirect
• Shared compute gallery

Host Pool Setup

• With golden image and WVD admin
• Storage account with Azure Files setup
• Private endpoint setup
• FSLogix setup / cloud connect

Load Balancing

• Load and time

Maintenance

• Updates
• WVD admin
• Scheduled agent updates / validation environment
• Backup