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- Char_Cheesman
Community Manager
Exploring Windows cloud solutions: Insights and sample scenarios starts soon. Have a question? Post it here in the Comments.
- Is there a free lab where we can practice using Azure like what was shown in the demo? Great presentations too.
- TomHickling
Microsoft
How many people use Azure Virtual Desktop, and or Windows 365 at this point - or are thinking of doing so?- My company is slowly getting into AVD and plan to expand it's use greatly in the next couple years.
- We are currently evaluating use cases for us. OnCall employee access, 3rd party/contractor access, Frontline workers,... and if it would fit better in AVD or W365
- We use AVD for some customers. W365 is deemed to expensive by our customers. Most customers comment they can buy a mega laptop/pc for the yearly fee of Windows 365.
- TomHicklingThanks Rob - so yes but you are then stuck with that piece of hardware, if you lose it, you've lost it. If it breaks you need to fix it or buy a new one. It will also age and you will need a new one. With W365 Microsoft provides Windows as a service from the cloud. We manage the underlying infrastructure and will over time update that hardware so that you can take advantage of that as a quicker CloudPC. Also it is a resilient service, if there was ever an issue with the specfic VM Azure will recover it so that it is available for you, and you cant lose it. And becuase you cant lose it there is no risk or someone getting access to the data kept on it.
- Is there a free lab where we can practice using Azure like what was shown in the demo? Great presentations too.
- I would really like to have a free lab option as well. Hands-on learning is the best way for me ("kinetic learning"). This would go a long way to helping me support AVD and increasing adoption for my company. Like the old TechNet days.
- Joe_Lurie
Charlie Dobson and MrIT_Greg We also have the Windows 11 and Office 365 Deployment Lab Kit available to you to use. You can download that from our eval center here: Windows 11 and Office 365 Deployment Lab Kit | Microsoft Evaluation Center.
This kit comes with eval software that is timebombed to 90-days, and you still need the Azure subscription, which as TomHickling said can be a free version. Hopefully with the lab kit and the free Azure subscription you can get the hands-on you are asking for.
- TomHicklingYou can get $200 free credit for 30 days which enables you to run Azure services such as AVD in that time and up to that value. There are also a range of other Azure services that are free for longer time periods: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/free/lab-services#all-free-services
- Char_Cheesman
Welcome to Exploring Windows cloud solutions: Insights and sample scenarios and the second annual Microsoft Technical Takeoff for Windows + Intune! Have a question? Post here in the Comments so we can help. Let’s make this an active Q&A!
- What permissions are required to fully setup an Azure VM? My company has taken away my Cloud Administrator role and I'm unable to add users to an app pool.
- TomHickling
Here is the AVD pre-reqs doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/prerequisites?tabs=portal There is full RBAC support for AVD and there are a number of built-in roles that enable granular control, like the ability only manage session hosts or applications etc. Here is the RBAC doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/rbac
For AVD pooled instances, are the server instances ephemeral or persistent? In VMWare Horizon and Citrix, we are used to servers being wiped on a daily/weekly basis.
- TomHicklingCurrently they are persistent, but Scott will talk about a new upcoming feature that slightly addresses this problem, and there will be new future announcements coming
- TomHicklingSo we ran out of time to show it, but catch up on the recordings and look for an upcoming feature called Session host update which updates all session hosts to a new image allowing monthly rollouts etc.
- Char_Cheesman
Thanks for joining us! We hope you enjoyed this session. If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry – you can watch it on demand. And we’ll continue to answer questions here in the chat through the end of the week. There's more great content in store at the Microsoft Technical Takeoff! What do you like about the event so far? Share your feedback and help shape the direction of future events on the Tech Community!
