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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075022

Pages 734 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Ryan Mangan

Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Virtual Desktop

3. Section 2: Planning an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

4. Chapter 2: Designing the Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture

5. Chapter 3: Designing for User Identities and Profiles

6. Chapter 4: Implementing and Managing Networking for Azure Virtual Desktop

7. Chapter 5: Implementing and Managing Storage for Azure Virtual Desktop

8. Section 3: Implementing an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

9. Chapter 6: Creating Host Pools and Session Hosts

10. Chapter 7: Configure Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools

11. Chapter 8: Azure AD Join for Azure Virtual Desktop

12. Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Session Host Images

13. Section 4: Managing Access and Security

14. Chapter 10: Managing Access

15. Chapter 11: Managing Security

16. Section 5: Managing User Environments and Apps

17. Chapter 12: Implementing and Managing FSLogix

18. Chapter 13: Configuring User Experience Settings

19. Chapter 14: MSIX App Attach

20. Chapter 15: Configuring Apps on a Session Host

21. Section 6: Monitoring and Maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

22. Chapter 16: Planning and Implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

23. Chapter 17: Automate Azure Virtual Desktop Management Tasks

24. Chapter 18: Monitoring and Managing Performance and Health

25. Chapter 19: Azure Virtual Desktop's Getting Started Feature

26. Final Assessment

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Microsoft Resources and Microsoft Learn

Configuring the location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata

Azure Virtual Desktop is currently available for deployment in all Azure regions. IT admins can select the geographical location to store metadata in when creating their host pool virtual machines and associated services. You would want to store the metadata locally to your organizations for data soverancy purposes.

You can find out more about Azure geographies using the Azure data center map: https://azuredatacentermap.azurewebsites.net/. There is no region restriction or limit to where you can access user- and app-specific data.

Azure Virtual Desktop metadata is collected, and the information that's captured includes host pool names, app group names, workspace names, and user principal names in a data center.

When an admin creates a service object, they will be asked to select a location for the service object. The location that's selected essentially determines where the metadata for the object will...