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AZURE Virtual Desktop (AVD)

  • Here's a new problem / chalenge : Users accessing sercured documentation remotely.

    • A couple of things to analyze, do they need to acces the documentation localy or remotely or both?
    • What can they do with the documentation? Can they copy it or nned to use it with other apps?
    • Remote desktop in to a local server / machine would have been the way but it might create security issues and network access problems.

  • The goal : Create a Azure virtual desktop that will allow the functionnality of several applications at the same time.

  • Hypothese : Using Azure and it's ressources, I'll create desktop that will be redundant and available for users. Need to run 4 apps at the same time for maybe... and up to 90 users. So, what I'm thinking is going with 2 AVD.

Things to do​

  • First of, need to create a ressource group RG for this project or pick one if already created. (RG is a logical container that holds resources for a Azure solution - project) RessourceGRP

  • Then, if not created, need to create a virtual network (for the ressources to communicate between themselves)

    • I'm using the default values except for the IP addresses (I don't need that many for a small deployment)

      Virtualnetwrk

      IPaddress

  • Next, need to go to Azure virtual Desktop and create a host pool :

    • As per options, I'm using this : Hostpool

    • Session Hosts, I'm naming it AVD-FLIGHT (So then, the desktop will be AVD-FLIGHT1 and 2 for the next...)

      • I'm leaving pretty much all options as default : Sessionhosts

      • Don't need to open public ports because the RDP session will be handle internaly...ish. sessionhost2

      • Domain is Entra in this case and need to create a admin account (cannot be administrator) sessionhost3

        • Do not have a custom script...

  • No Workspace, advanced or tags for now.

  • Now.... we wait.