Compilation of good links and references related to the new version of Azure WVD ARM.
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| WVD Spring Update - News and Updates | Novidades sobre Virtualização de Desktops no Azure | - Novidades sobre Virtualização de Desktops no Azure From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlQKvJQD6m4&feature=youtu.be - New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available From https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-windows-virtual-desktop-capabilities-now-generally-available/ |
| WVD Spring Update - Planning | Network recommendations |
- Network guidelines From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/network-guidance?context=/azure/virtual-desktop/context/context - Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) bandwidth requirements From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/rdp-bandwidth |
| Recommendations of Windows Virtual Desktop for the enterprise | - Windows Virtual Desktop for the enterprise From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/wvd/windows-virtual-desktop |
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| Workload types and VM sizing recommendations | - Remote Desktop workloads From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/remote-desktop-workloads - Virtual machine sizing guidelines From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/virtual-machine-recs?context=/azure/virtual-desktop/context/context |
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| WVD Spring Update - Setup | Passo a passo para subir um ambiente de Windows Virtual Desktop, mantido pelo Christiaan Brinkhoff (Microsoft Global Black Belt de WVD) | - Windows Virtual Desktop technical (2020 – ARM-based model – generally available) deployment walkthrough. It covers all you need to know and beyond! From https://christiaanbrinkhoff.com/2020/05/01/windows-virtual-desktop-technical-2020-spring-update-arm-based-model-deployment-walkthrough/#teamsoptimizations |
| Videos com passo a passo | - Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Spring Update From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKBa7kLhghI - New WVD Admin Portal - Windows Virtual Desktop - #20 From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrkQFSVD9Ik&list=PL-V4YVm6AmwXGvQ46W8mHkpvm6S5IIitK&index=21 |
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| WVD Spring Update - Image Management | Image management using Shared Image Gallery -My image: You cannot instant update host pools created based on Azure Managed images (images under My images) as part of the host pool. So in case of an image update, you have to re-create the host pool. - Shared images (SIG). It’s most likely that you want to keep using the existing host pool due to the fact of all the Remote Applications and Desktops – Applications groups and assignments. This is the part where the Azure shared image gallery (SIG) comes in very handy due to the support for versioning, read the benefits again here. It will automatically pick and select the latest image version. |
- Windows Virtual Desktop - #23 - Update Session Hosts from Latest Image From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxvwR9LGWQ - Create an Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG) From https://christiaanbrinkhoff.com/2020/05/01/windows-virtual-desktop-technical-2020-spring-update-arm-based-model-deployment-walkthrough/#teamsoptimizations |
| Image preparation and recommendations | - Prepare and customize a master VHD image From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/set-up-customize-master-image |
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| Install Language Pack | - Add language packs to a Windows 10 multi-session image From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/language-packs |
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| Windows Virtual Desktop Optimization tool | Virtual Desktop Optimization tool | - (Windows) Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool now available From https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-virtual-desktop/windows-virtual-desktop-optimization-tool-now-available/m-p/1558614#M5056 - Virtual Desktop Optimization tool From https://christiaanbrinkhoff.com/2020/05/01/windows-virtual-desktop-technical-2020-spring-update-arm-based-model-deployment-walkthrough/#teamsoptimizations https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-virtual-desktop/windows-virtual-desktop-optimization-tool-now-available/m-p/1558614#M5056 - Windows Virtual Desktop Optimizations Nuff Said! -#29 From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2dSd695x8&feature=youtu.be |
| Use Microsoft Teams on Windows Virtual desktop | Media optimization for Microsoft Teams is only available for the Windows Desktop client on Windows 10 machines. Media optimizations require Windows Desktop client version 1.2.1026.0 or later. | - Use Microsoft Teams on Windows Virtual desktop From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/teams-on-wvd - Prepare your organization's network for Microsoft Teams From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-network |
| WVD Spring Update - Monitoring |
- Proactively monitor ARM-based Windows Virtual Desktop with Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/proactively-monitor-arm-based-windows-virtual-desktop-with-azure/ba-p/1508735 |
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| WVD Spring Update - Auto Scale | O processo de auto escale, atualizado para o WVD Spring Update. - This means shutting down and deallocating session host VMs during off-peak usage hours, then turning them back on and reallocating them during peak hours: -- Schedule VMs to start and stop based on Peak and Off-Peak business hours. -- Scale out VMs based on number of sessions per CPU core. -- Scale down VMs during Off-Peak hours, leaving the minimum number of session host VMs running. - Scale out only based on session per CPU. - It can't scale down during peak hours. - "Maximum number of sessions per CPU threshold used to determine when a new RDSH server needs to be started" (Default is 1) - During the off peak hours, to decide which node to drain and shut down, it picks the VMs from list of session hosts sorted by number of sessions (active + disconnected) in ascending order. |
- Scale session hosts using Azure Automation From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/set-up-scaling-script |
| WVD Spring Update - Profile / FSLogix | Storage Options: Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files and Storage Spaces Direct | - Storage options for FSLogix profile containers in Windows Virtual Desktop From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/store-fslogix-profile |
| This article provides insights on designing, sizing, and implementing a Microsoft FSLogix Profile Container solution for large enterprises, as well as shows how to avoid performance problems in production. This article is an extension of the Windows Virtual Desktop at enterprise scale article. |
- Microsoft FSLogix for the enterprise From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/wvd/windows-virtual-desktop-fslogix |
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| “Scale Azure Files – storage accounts based on AD Groups When you implement Windows Virtual Desktop on a larger scale – you could run into limitations of Azure Files. Premium storage accounts have up to max 100k IOPS per share with 5 GBps per share at about 3 ms latency. The rule of the thumb is that one user consumes between 5 and 15 IOPs (depending on the type of workload). To work around this limit and stack up more Azure File shares to create more capacity – there is an option to create filters based on Active Directory groups. You must create an additional registry hive with the SID of that specific group after Software\FSLogix\Profiles and in that hive, you can create all the settings that must overrule the standard Profiles hive settings. This creates the option to filter/overrule settings for users that are members of the Active Directory Group – with effectively increasing on capacity – you can stack as much as storage accounts as you need to accommodate more IOPs. HKLM\SOFTWARE\FSLogix\Profiles\ObjectSpecific\S-1-5-21-306146113-3061682913-806882557-2166<br> Create in the registry hive a REG_SZ value name “VHDLocations” and enter the new (extra)Azure Files network file share path (e.g. \fslogixwvddemo2.file.core.windows.net\fslogixprofiles). Repeat this for every group you create. Read here more about the FSLogix ObjectSpecific settings: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/configure-per-user-per-group-ht" |
- Configure Profile Container and Office Container for per-user or per-group From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/configure-per-user-per-group-ht - Learn here how to configure Azure Files with Active Directory (AD) authentication for Windows Virtual Desktop – FSLogix Profile Container and MSIX app attach From https://www.christiaanbrinkhoff.com/2020/03/01/learn-here-how-to-configure-azure-files-with-active-directory-ad-authentication-for-fslogix-profile-container-and-msix-app-attach/ |
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| Azure Files Premium available in Brazil. Compartilhamentos com até 100TB/cada, chegando a 307.200 IOPS (IOPS Bursting). |
- How to create an premium Azure file share https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-create-premium-fileshare - Premium FileStorage account limits https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-scale-targets#premium-filestorage-account-limits - Part one: enable AD DS authentication for your Azure file shares https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-identity-ad-ds-enable |
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| Azure NetApp Files | - Service levels for Azure NetApp Files https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-service-levels |
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| WVD Spring Update - Tunning / Performance | Ferramenta gratuita para otimizar o seu ambiente de WVD. |
- Windows Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool now available https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-virtual-desktop/windows-virtual-desktop-optimization-tool-now-available/m-p/1558614#M5056 |
| Orientações para grandes implementações (acima de 1.000 VMs) | - Windows Virtual Desktop at enterprise scale From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/wvd/windows-virtual-desktop |
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| WVD Spring Update - Tools | WVDAdmin Client Admin Tool | - Windows Virtual Desktop - Spring Release / Spring Update with WVDAdmin https://blog.itprocloud.de/Windows-Virtual-Desktop-Spring-Update,-Spring-Release/ |
| Deploy a WVD environment via Infrastructure-as-Code from Azure DevOps | - Deploy a WVD environment via Infrastructure-as-Code from Azure DevOps https://xenithit.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-deploy-windows-virtual-dekstop.html |