AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Course Certification - AVD 2025

Explore Azure virtual desktop use cases for maintenance and remote support. Centralize apps on a golden image to reduce patching and enable easy end user support via host sessions.

Understand how security and regulation govern Azure Virtual Desktop deployments, including conditional access, policies, data regionalization, and Azure Active Directory integration to meet industry requirements.

Azure Virtual Desktop enables remote heavy workers, like CAD designers, to access powerful virtual machines with Nvidia GPUs and multi session capability, reducing license and hardware costs.

Leverage Azure Virtual Desktop to virtualize legacy applications that can't be re-architected, delivering remote or desktop access from anywhere with Windows Virtual Desktop host sessions and a client GUI.

Learn how to achieve disaster recovery and business continuity for azure virtual desktop by using zone-redundant file shares, golden image replication, and regional failover to keep apps and workloads available.

Leverage Azure Virtual Desktop to enable mergers and acquisitions with shared gallery images, delivering organization-specific applications and host pool access at minimal cost through back-end integration.

Organizations can support a flexible and temporary workforce by scaling Azure Virtual Desktop up or down with automation, and enforcing bring-your-own-device access controls to protect data.

Explore how Azure Virtual Desktop enables cost savings by using existing Windows 10 license or M 365 license, delivering multi-session access and autoscaling to reduce compute, storage, and network costs.

Explore prerequisites for Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, including operating systems, virtualization, Azure cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, Azure Active Directory, and disaster recovery concepts.

Identify Azure Virtual Desktop prerequisites by selecting an identity provider (Azure AD, AD DS on Azure, or on-prem AD via VPN), credentials and profile redirection with Azure Files or NetApp.

Explore three identity prerequisites for Azure Virtual Desktop authentication: hybrid with Windows Server Active Directory and AD Connect, Azure AD Domain Services, and Azure AD joined virtual machines.

Explore a reference architecture for Azure Virtual Desktop with hub-and-spoke networking, on-premises and Azure firewalls, Azure Bastion access, and storage and domain services for a three-tier web and database setup.

Implement Azure virtual desktop infrastructure by addressing networking components, storage requirements, and creating the first host pool with session hosts.

Prepare your environment for Azure Virtual Desktop by creating the required resource groups for shared resources, domain services, security and monitoring, and networking in West Europe.

Examine Azure virtual desktop networking options, including domain services connectivity, direct subnet communication, peering or VPN, and cloud-only deployments with jump boxes and pooled desktops.

Create an azure virtual network in West Europe, choose a private IP range such as 172.16, and configure subnets for AV and domain services, with security disabled to save costs.

Configure storage for Azure Virtual Desktop by choosing premium or standard Azure file shares or Azure NetApp Files, then join to AD DS to enable Fslogix and AVD.

Configure two storage accounts for Azure Virtual Desktop—one for diagnostics and VM troubleshooting and one for Fslogix user profiles—linked via a private endpoint and private DNS zone in West Europe.

Configure VNet peering between an existing and a new virtual network to enable Active Directory domain controller and Azure Virtual Desktop communication, with routing through a route table.

Deploy an Azure VM to host Active Directory domain services and AD Connect. Configure the domain controller, create OU, and synchronize users and groups to Azure AD for AVD deployment.

Create an organizational unit (ou) in active directory, add users and groups, and assign admin and standard accounts to groups for licenses, azure virtual desktop access, and file share permissions.

Deploy Azure AD Connect to synchronize on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD, configure password hash sign-in with single sign-on, verify the custom domain, and sync selected users and groups.

Configure a custom domain in Azure Active Directory, verify avd.com and data.com, and synchronize domain controllers to update the username suffix for Azure Virtual Desktop login.

Learn to create an Azure virtual desktop host pool, join it to domain services, and provision VMs with chosen images, disks, sizes, networking, and workspace settings.

Create an azure virtual desktop host pool with active directory domain services, provision vms, join them to the abdullah.com domain, and assign licenses for eight users.

Create a host pool by joining virtual machines directly to Azure Active Directory, bypassing domain services; configure pool settings, VM count, image, and workspace name for remote apps or desktops.

Assign users to the host pool and grant access to Azure AD joined VMs. Configure the custom RTP property to allow any device and save pool settings.

Create the first Azure virtual desktop host pool using Azure Active Directory, verify requirements, and set up workspace, application group, VM extensions, and RBAC controls for Azure AD joined devices.

Develop a Windows 10 multi-session golden image for Azure Virtual Desktop by installing FSLogix, M365 apps (OneDrive, Teams), and Defender exclusions, then sysprep and capture for Azure Shared Image Gallery.

Create a virtual machine for Azure Virtual Desktop golden image, using Windows 10 multi-session. Configure premium VM size, temporary public IP, and network for master image deployment and install applications.

Install Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop to enable chat and collaboration, with media optimization for calls on Windows 10 desktop clients using the Teams MSI on the golden image.

install microsoft teams on Azure virtual desktop by downloading the 64-bit msi, installing via PowerShell, adding a registry entry, and then installing websocket services and visual c++ redistributable.

Install fslogix components and apply profile settings to enable seamless user profiles in Azure Virtual Desktop, with the fslogix profile container on Azure File Share and Active Directory integration.

Configure Fslogix components by setting up a storage account, file share, and Active Directory authentication, then apply NTFS permissions and registry settings for profile containers.

Configure windows settings for azure virtual desktop master image, including time zone redirection, disabling automatic updates, storage sense, drive access, and remote session controls.

Configure time zone redirection on Azure Virtual Desktop by applying a registry setting via PowerShell and verifying in regedit, enabling Terminal Services time zone redirection on the master image.

Learn to disable automatic Windows updates by using the local group policy editor or a PowerShell registry script, setting no auto update option to 1, and testing it.

Disable storage sense across the virtual desktop by using the registry key or group policy, then apply the change via PowerShell on the master image and verify success.

Configure group policy to restrict the temporary D drive access and set remote desktop session limits, including disconnected and remote app sessions, with session shadowing for IT control.

Configure Windows Defender extension exclusions to exclude logics profile, container, and related Fslogix files and processes from real-time scanning. Use the course PowerShell script to automate these exclusions.

Install line-of-business applications on an Azure Virtual Desktop master image using an all-in-one installer, adding Python, Evernote, Paint, PuTTY, and Visual Studio Code, then sysprep and capture the golden image.

Demonstrate disk snapshots, sysprep generalization, and shared gallery image deployment for Azure Virtual Desktop master images. Deallocate, snapshot, and publish a new image version in Azure shared gallery.

Create an azure compute gallery and define a new image version from a windows 10 multi-session master image in west europe for a host pool, including publisher, offer, and sku.

Verify deployment readiness by aligning prerequisites, directory services, and subscription settings for Azure Virtual Desktop, then configure host pools, application groups, and remote apps, and test end-user access.

Explore the creation and expansion of Azure Virtual Desktop application groups linked to a host pool, including the default full-desktop group and publishing remote apps.

Expand an Azure virtual desktop by provisioning a host session, creating an application group with desktop and remote apps, and testing end-user experiences with the remote desktop client and browser.

Create a remote app group in Azure Virtual Desktop, add apps from the start menu or file paths, and assign users or groups to the remote app.

Customize desktop and remote app properties to present end-user friendly names, update application names like dev desktop and 7 zip manager, assign groups, and test from the end user perspective.

Test the AVD solution from an end-user perspective by validating customized desktop and remote app properties, updated names, and assigned groups using browser access and the desktop client.

connect to avd remote apps and desktops via browser, with credentials saved in the credential manager and using the desktop client to speed sign-in while hiding the full desktop.

Learn to connect to azure virtual desktop remote apps and desktop using the desktop client, compare it with the web client, and streamline authentication with credential manager for app access.

Plan and implement security for Azure Virtual Desktop by integrating with Azure Active Directory, applying conditional access, and leveraging Azure Security Center with Microsoft Defender Antivirus across all session hosts.

Plan and implement conditional access for Azure Virtual Desktop using Azure Active Directory Premium. Analyze signals like user, location, device, and risk to automatically grant MFA or block access.

Plan conditional access policies for Azure Virtual Desktop by configuring an Azure Active Directory policy, selecting the application ID for Azure Virtual Desktop, and enforcing MFA for users and groups.

Explore Azure virtual desktop cost estimation for a 500-user, medium-usage scenario in UAE central, with 5 TB data and 90% peak concurrency, using three-year reserved D8sv3 multi-session.

Compare Azure Virtual Desktop cost estimation for multi-session vs single-session, detailing session host costs, CPU per user, VM sizing, reservations, OS disk, and user profile storage in the UAE.

Explore how to use the Azure calculator to estimate Azure Virtual Desktop costs, compare pay-as-you-go versus reserved instances, and understand per-user and monthly cost drivers.