Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) delivers Windows 10 desktops and applications virtually anywhere. In this series you will learn about planning and implementing Azure Virtual Desktop. You will learn how to manage access and security, and configure user environments.
The topics in this series are from the AZ-140 exam objectives. When used with additional resources, this series can help you prepare for the AZ-140 specialty exam
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Hello and welcome to this overview for
Azure Virtual Desktop and
exciting new course.
I'll be your host Zach Memos and
this is our instructor right
over here it is Mike Rodrick.
Mike, how are you doing?
>> Fantastic Zach, how are you doing?
>> I'm doing great.
And just by way of introduction,
I've been with ITProTV for
about four years and I've worked with
absolutely every single instructor.
I've worked with Mike with MS-900,
I've worked with Adam on very well right
now it's MS-500 of what we're doing.
So I have a little bit of a background
in all things Microsoft and
in fact nudging into the Azure world.
So Mike, tell us about yourself.
>> Kind of the same, Zach I've been
with ITProTV since we started.
Before that I worked as
a Microsoft certified trainers,
I've been doing Microsoft training,
gosh, since server 2000 and
really excited about getting into
the world of Azure Virtual Desktop.
>> So, if I were to ask you this,
in fact I'm gonna ask you this, so
I'm being redundant, what's in it for me?
I'm the view or I'm a learner,
I wanna know what isn't it for me,
why should I pay attention
to Azure Virtual Desktop.
>> This particular series that we're doing
is kind of got an interesting purpose.
The idea here is I wanna get you
guys into Azure Virtual Desktop.
So if you're looking to test Azure Virtual
Desktop or even do a basic deployment of
Azure Virtual Desktop in
your production environment,
that's really what I'm gearing this for.
But it's also gonna help you prepare
if you're interested in taking the exam
because there is a certification for
Azure Virtual Desktop as well.
It's a specialty exam,
it's the AZ-140 which is in beta now.
And I just took that and this would
help you prepare for that as well.
>> And you're very modest,
you pass that too by the way.
So when we look at the course,
we look at it will be several episodes,
what does it look like?
What are they gonna look like
the episodes individually?
>> That's a great question and
I basically cherry pick the topics.
As you look at the exam objectives for
essay 140 we definitely
don't cover all of those.
This is not, you keep this course wouldn't
get you to pass that exam by itself.
The idea behind this one is really to
kinda get you into Azure Virtual Desktop
to give you the basics that you need
to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop.
And then maybe decide that you wanna
go a little further and prepare and
take that exam.
But I think a lot of people out there are
interested in how we can get this deployed
and that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna start at the very beginning,
we're talking about the planning phase and
then we're gonna go into implementation
will get it up and running.
We'll even set up some FSLogix profile
containers to see how we can provide
a persistent environment for AVD or
Azure Virtual Desktop users as well.
>> That's not very exciting.
Now, are you gonna provide some
auxiliary information for our learners?
>> Absolutely as I said, we don't cover
all of the topics that make up the exam.
But in the show notes,
I point you out to docks at Microsoft.com
where you can do some additional reading
and find other resources if you
do decide to go that exam route.
>> So Mike, why are you excited
about Azure Virtual Desktop?
>> It's just a fantastic product Zach,
I've been working with Azure Virtual
Desktop since it's infancy since it came
out when it was initially Windows Virtual
Desktop and it wasn't even armed based.
You had to do a lot of this from
PowerShell and it finally transitioned to
a full blown Azure service
becoming Windows Virtual Desktop.
And then recently, not too long
before we started shooting this,
they actually rebranded it
into Azure Virtual Desktop.
And with the world
the way it is right now,
the time of this filming we're towards
the end hopefully of this global pandemic.
We've done a lot more
workers working remotely.
And I don't think that's gonna change even
as things start going back to normal.
If I was to try to break out my crystal
ball we're seeing a lot more that need and
the desire to be able to work remotely.
And that means as IT,
we need to be able to provide that work
environment no matter where my users are.
And that's what AVD or
Azure Virtual Desktop allows me to do.
Give my end users a full
blown work environment,
whether that's individual apps or
a complete desktop and
deliver to them anywhere
in the world to any device.
You just can't beat that.
So, I hope you guys are as excited as I am
because this is really really neat stuff.
>> Well I can't wait, thank you Mike.
So if Azure Virtual Desktop sounds like
something that you'd be interested in and
you should be, make sure you watch
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