AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Course Certification – AVD 2024

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Quick Start

Lecture 1: What is Azure Virtual Desktop ?

Lecture 2: Explore Azure Virtual Desktop benefits

Lecture 3: Set the Playback Speed rate to optimal viewing experience

Chapter 2: Optional – Azure Virtual Desktop – Business needs and Real-life Use cases

Lecture 1: This section is (optional) to understand how AVD solve some business challenges

Lecture 2: Remote support and System maintenance – Challenge

Lecture 3: Security and Regulation – Business Requirements

Lecture 4: Remote Heavy Workers: like CAD designers and high-powered systems

Lecture 5: Legacy Application: that can’t be re-architected to run natively in the Cloud

Lecture 6: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity – Requirements

Lecture 7: Mergers and Acquisitions – Use Case

Lecture 8: Flexible and temporary Workforce – Business needs

Lecture 9: IT Cost-saving – Business Requirements

Chapter 3: Plan your Azure Virtual Desktop implementation

Lecture 1: AVD Course – Knowledge Prerequisites

Lecture 2: Azure Virtual Desktop – Technical Prerequisite

Lecture 3: Azure Virtual Desktop – Authentication Methods

Lecture 4: Azure Virtual Desktop – Sample Reference Architecture Diagram

Chapter 4: Infrastructure Preparation and AVD Prerequisites

Lecture 1: Overview: Implement Azure Virtual Desktop – Infrastructure – Overview

Lecture 2: Prepare your environment and Create the required Resource Groups

Lecture 3: Implement and Configure Azure Networking for AVD

Lecture 4: Implement and Configure Azure Networking for AVD – Demo

Lecture 5: Implement and Configure Azure Storage for AVD

Lecture 6: Implement and Configure Azure Storage Account for AVD – Demo

Lecture 7: AD Option 1: Configuring VNet Peering for Deploying Active Directory – Optional

Lecture 8: AD Option 1: Deploy new Azure VM for Active Directory in Azure

Lecture 9: AD Option 1: Create OUs, Groups, Users

Lecture 10: AD Option 1: Deploy AD Connect and Sync Active Directory Objects

Lecture 11: Provision Azure File Share for UserProfile Storage – Demo

Lecture 12: Optional – Configure a Custom Domain Using Azure AD

Chapter 5: Azure Virtual Desktop Creation with different Authentication Methods

Lecture 1: Option 1: Create a host pool with Active Directory Domain Services

Lecture 2: Option 1: Create a host pool with Active Directory Domain Services – Demo

Lecture 3: Option 2: Create a host pool with Azure AD Joined-VM

Lecture 4: Option 2: Create a host pool with Azure AD Joined-VM – Additional Steps

Lecture 5: Option 2: Create a host pool with Azure AD Joined-VM – Demo

Chapter 6: Azure Virtual Desktop Golden image Customization

Lecture 1: Azure Virtual Desktop Golden image Customization – Overview

Lecture 2: Create a Virtual Machine for Master Image

Lecture 3: Install Microsoft Teams on AVD – Overview

Lecture 4: Install Microsoft Teams on AVD – Demo

Lecture 5: Setup FSLogix components and apply profiles settings – Overview

Lecture 6: Setup FSLogix components and apply profiles settings – Demo

Lecture 7: Registry Settings: FSLogix Ready Configuration File

Lecture 8: Customize windows Configurations and settings – Overview

Lecture 9: Registry Settings: Set up time zone redirection – Demo

Lecture 10: Registry Settings: Disable Automatic Windows Updates – Demo

Lecture 11: Registry Settings: Disable Storage Sense

Lecture 12: GPOs Settings: Configure Drive Access and RD Session settings – Demo

Lecture 13: Configure Windows Defender extension exclusions – Demo

Lecture 14: Configure Windows Defender extension exclusions by using PowerShell Script

Lecture 15: Install Line-of-business Applications – Sample – Demo

Lecture 16: SysPrep and Make a disk Snapshot – Demo

Lecture 17: Create Azure Compute Gallery and Create an image version – Demo

Chapter 7: Azure Virtual Desktop – Application Groups & End-user Experience

Lecture 1: Azure Virtual Desktop – Host pool readiness

Lecture 2: Azure Virtual Desktop – Application Groups – Overview

Lecture 3: Expand an existing host pool with new session hosts

Lecture 4: Create AVD App group (RemoteApp) and Assign users or groups to this App Group

Lecture 5: Customize Desktop and remote Apps properties

Lecture 6: Testing AVD Solution using different clients – End user experience

Lecture 7: Connect to AVD Remote Apps and Desktop using Browser

Lecture 8: Connect to AVD Remote Apps and Desktop using Desktop Client

Lecture 9: Customize (RDP) properties for AVD host pool

Chapter 8: Planning and implementing Security for Azure Virtual Desktop

Lecture 1: Plan and implement Security for AVD – Overview

Lecture 2: Plan Conditional Access policies for AVD – Overview

Lecture 3: Plan Conditional Access policies for AVD – Demo

Lecture 4: Enable Screen Capture Protection for AVD

Lecture 5: Enable Watermarking for Azure Virtual Desktop

Chapter 9: Azure Virtual Desktop – Pricing and Cost Estimation

Lecture 1: AVD Cost Estimation – Customer Use Case Overview

Lecture 2: Deep dive into AVD Cost Estimation – Multi-session vs. Single-session

Lecture 3: How to Use Azure Calculator to Estimate Cost for Azure Virtual Desktop

Chapter 10: Wrap-up

Lecture 1: What's Next?

Lecture 2: Extra – Get Azure Free Credit for your Lab