What Is Azure Virtual Desktop?: Key Capabilities
What Is Azure Virtual Desktop?: Key Capabilities
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03/17/2022
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Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the
cloud.
Here's what you can do when you run Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure:
Key capabilities
With Azure Virtual Desktop, you can set up a scalable and flexible environment:
Use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, PowerShell and REST API to configure the host
pools, create app groups, assign users, and publish resources.
Publish full desktop or individual remote apps from a single host pool, create
individual app groups for different sets of users, or even assign users to
multiple app groups to reduce the number of images.
As you manage your environment, use built-in delegated access to assign roles
and collect diagnostics to understand various configuration or user errors.
Use the new Diagnostics service to troubleshoot errors.
Only manage the image and virtual machines, not the infrastructure. You don't
need to personally manage the Remote Desktop roles like you do with Remote
Desktop Services, just the virtual machines in your Azure subscription.
You can also assign and connect users to your virtual desktops:
Once assigned, users can launch any Azure Virtual Desktop client to connect to
their published Windows desktops and applications. Connect from any device
through either a native application on your device or the Azure Virtual Desktop
HTML5 web client.
Securely establish users through reverse connections to the service, so you
don't need to open any inbound ports.
You can see a typical architectural setup of Azure Virtual Desktop for the enterprise
in our architecture documentation.