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What is Azure Virtual Desktop?

Azure Virtual Desktop is an instanced virtual machine hosting a desktop and app virtualization service running on the cloud. Azure Virtual Desktop delivers a virtual desktop experience and remote apps to any device.

What are the benefits of using Az Virtual Desktop?

• Enable secure and productive remote work on any device
• Reduce costs of licensing and infrastructure
• Protect against outages to stay productive
• Simplify IT management
• Keep application and user data secure

Why is Azure Virtual Desktop important?

• Modern workload is increasingly becoming a remote and mobile workforce.
• To have stressless access to your company environment and with high standard of security.

To learn more about Azure virtual desktop, click here

Overview and requirements

The steps listed below must be completed in order to deploy a Virtual Desktop host pool with Terraform.

• Ensure that you meet the requirements for Windows Virtual Desktop.

• DC/AAD DS
• WVD tenant must be created
• TenantCreator role must be assigned
• VNET configured with Layer 3 access to DC/AAD DS

• Terraform must be installed and configured as outlined here
• Terraform code from GitHub repository is downloaded to a local folder.
• Terraform files variables.tf and tfvars files are update.
• Terraform deployment is started.

> - terraform init
> - terraform plan
> - terraform apply

• Validate session host VMs are deployed and heart beating via Get-RdsSessionHost.
• To destory terraform deployment

> - terraform destroy

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