Azure Virtual Desktop: Plan and Implement Identity and Security
Identity management and security are mission-critical topics for an AVD environment. This course will teach you how to implement both in Azure Virtual Desktop.
What you'll learn
Once in production, providing the correct access and permissions to users and other administrators, as well as ensuring total environment security are major components of your everyday maintenance. In this course, Azure Virtual Desktop: Plan and Implement Identity and Security, you'll delve into the identity integration and security topics that are relevant to Azure resources. First, you'll explore access control and the Azure role-based access control mechanisms for distributing privileges to users and administrators. Next, you'll switch gears to learn about the general security best practices for Azure resources, including your AVD components. Finally, you'll discover how you can use Azure services like Azure Firewall and Azure Bastion to secure network connectivity to AVD. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of how best to ensure environment security to your production AVD deployment.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Managing Azure Role-based Access Control 3m
- Managing AVD Roles in the Portal 2m
- Using PowerShell to Assign Roles 4m
- Assigning Users to Application Groups 1m
- Managing Azure AD Joined Hosts 4m
- Managing Active Directory Joined Hosts 2m
- Using Group Policy for Session Hosts 2m
- Module Summary 1m
- Plan MFA and Conditional Access 2m
- Implement MFA and Conditional Access 5m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Introduction 2m
- Application and OS Updates 3m
- Security Best Practices for AVD 2m
- Application and OS Updates with MECM 4m
- Exploring Microsoft Defender for Cloud 5m
- Client Enrollment and Intune OS Updates 3m
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus 4m
- Adding Session Hosts to Host Pools 2m
- Windows Threat Protection for AVD Session Hosts 1m
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 4m
- Validation Environments 2m
- Microsoft Defender Antivirus 4m
- Windows Defender for Application Control 7m
- Implement and Manage Network Security for Connections to AVD 2m
- Plan MFA and Conditional Access 2m
- Implement MFA and Conditional Access 5m
- Understanding Azure Firewall 3m
- Configuring Azure Firewall 4m
- Manage Security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud 5m
- Module Summary 2m
- Testing Azure Firewall 4m
- Just-in-time Access for AVD Session Hosts 5m
- Azure Bastion for AVD Session Hosts 4m
- Module 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