Azure Virtual Desktop: Monitor and Maintain Infrastructure
Explore how to manage and monitor Azure Virtual Desktop. This course will teach you how to backup and recover critical data, plan for disaster recovery, automate with command line tools, and monitor the health of your AVD environment.
What you'll learn
An Azure Virtual Desktop environment is not a “set it and forget it” scenario. In this course, Azure Virtual Desktop: Monitor and Maintain Infrastructure, you’ll learn to manage the health and performance of your AVD environment. First, you’ll explore how to collect and parse monitoring data using Azure Monitor. Next, you’ll discover how to leverage automation tools to manage your environment. Finally, you’ll learn how to protect your AVD investment by configuring data protection and disaster recovery. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Azure Virtual Desktop management needed to effectively monitor and maintain your AVD infrastructure.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Automation Considerations and Tasks 3m
- Operational Tasks for the Command Line 1m
- Using the PowerShell DesktopVirtualization Module 6m
- Using the Azure CLI 1m
- Planning for Host Optimization 3m
- Autoscaling Overview 4m
- Creating an Autoscaling Plan 4m
- Autoscaling Example Scenario 4m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Planning Disaster Recovery for AVD 2m
- Protecting Pooled and Personal Host Pools 3m
- Protecting User Profiles and Golden Images 2m
- Planning a Backup Strategy 4m
- Backing up Golden Images with Compute Gallery 2m
- Backing up Personal Desktops 2m
- Backing up User Profiles 3m
- Module and Course Summary 2m
About the author
Ned is an IT professional with almost 20 years of experience in the field. He has been a helpdesk operator, systems administrator, cloud architect, and product manager. In his newest incarnation, he is the Founder of Ned in the Cloud LLC. As a one-man-tech-juggernaut, he develops courses for Pluralsight, runs two podcasts (Day Two Cloud and Buffer Overflow), and creates original content for technology vendors. Ned has been a Microsoft MVP since 2017 and holds a bunch of industry certifications t... more