![]() ![]() Setting up split tunnelling for Office 365 and Config Manager traffic and doing more device management from the cloud reduces VPN usage without increasing security risks. So far that’s just in the US, only with the choice of more US regions, but you will soon be able to choose locations in Europe and later globally.Ĭonnecting many more staff by VPN isn’t always easy to scale quickly and some organisations have told staff to limit work during core hours or consider slowing down security patching or reducing their disaster recovery options to protect VPN capacity. The process for setting that up is much simpler if you’re managing WVD with the new Azure Resource Manager objects than with the existing tools.Īlthough you can start using it now, the Spring Update is still in preview and you can’t manage existing WVD desktops with the new tools Microsoft will have a conversion tool to migrate them to ARM before general availability later in 2020.Īlso coming later in the year is the option to choose where the metadata and configuration information for your WVD tenants is stored: that’s now separate from the operational WVD data. You can monitor WVD desktops with Microsoft Defender ATP like any other device, and combine that information with the Windows event logs and the WVD diagnostic logs in Azure Sentinel so you can do full threat hunting across virtual desktops, VMs and other resources. SEE: 250+ tips for telecommuting and managing remote workers (TechRepublic Premium) (If you’re still using PowerShell to manage WVD, the RDS module has been replaced with AzWvd run Install-Module Az.DesktopVirtualization to add the new commands.) You can also monitor WVD through Log Analytics rather than having to trawl through logs with PowerShell, so you can run Kusto queries or Power BI reports on the data. Using ARM you can publish RemoteApps and desktops not just to individual users, but also to Azure AD Groups, and you can use Azure RBAC to control permissions for every WVD ARM object, giving you a lot more granularity for delegating control than you get with the four admin roles in WVD itself. Now that WVD is an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) service, you can deploy, manage and scale it from the Azure portal using a simple new interface.Īs an ARM service, WVD is also easier to connect to other Azure services that you may already be using. They’re having to enable people to work on personal machines and they’re trying to acquire and remotely provision and deploy new machines.” “But we can make it a simpler scenario for folks who may be endpoint managers but who don’t have experience with Azure, who didn’t need to do that before but who need to do that now, because virtual machines are going to be the best solution for their employees who didn’t have a corporate-procured laptop or weren’t able to take it with them when they went home. “Customers who did have that expertise were able to spin up 10,000 VMs really quickly and get a lot of benefit from that,” Melissa Grant, director of product marketing for Microsoft 365, told TechRepublic. When WVD first launched, setting it up required understanding Azure resources and manually connecting it to your Azure AD tenant you could only monitor and manage your WVD tenant through PowerShell or by hosting your own Azure WebApps, and scaling out for more users meant running the same deployment again. With so many people working from home, VDI and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has suddenly become relevant to organizations that are used to physical devices and that don’t necessarily have experience in managing and securing virtual desktops, so managing it needs to be easier. One WVD partner alone ( Nerdio, which has its own WVD management service) has deployed virtual desktops for over 300,000 enterprises since March, ranging from 150,000 to a million desktops. ![]() Microsoft set up 32,000 desktops in WVD for its own developers in two days and many WVD customers are doing even larger deployments. ![]() Top Tech Conferences & Events to Add to Your Calendar in 2023 How to Create a Local Account in Windows 11 Pro Support for these Microsoft enterprise products ends in 2023 The point-and-click deployment tools in the Spring Update of the Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), the technical preview for Config Manager 2004 that makes it easier to manage on-premise devices from the cloud in the new Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin centre in Azure, and the way Endpoint Manager and Azure AD now use the same control plane to manage both devices and access: these remote-friendly features, have been in development for a while – but they’re certainly timely. ![]()
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