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