Complete Guide to Setting up Azure Virtual Desktops

Professor Robert McMillen shows you how to setup Azure Virtual Desktops from start to finish, even if you have little to no Azure experience prior to watching. Learn how to create the pool, the virtual machines, and all the permissions in order to log in.
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[@KasunDilshan96362]

Valuable session

[@techpub]

Awesome! Thanks for watching.

[@KasunDilshan96362]

@@techpub 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@fatduck5754]

Finally a detailed guide step by step on how to do this manually. Most of the guides i have seen follow the quick setup that creates everything. Thank you for making this

[@techpub]

You are welcome!

[@shaileshchaskar6093]

Indeed 👍

[@ReVols0807]

Hopefully this saves someone a lot of frustration, so....DON'T BOTHER USING AVD QUICKSTART!!!! Professor Robert's video is all you need. I have gone through AVD setup a hundred and eleven times (not really, but feels like it) with three different subscriptions and none of them worked with quickstart. The best method is to setup each resource one at a time after you set up your sub., Follow the tutorials here and if something goes wrong with one of the deployments it will make troubleshooting much easier and you will better understand each module as you set it up. There is an order to things and how they are set up. For example, if you try to setup a host pool or VM before setting up a virtual network, youll have to start over. Thanks Robert for putting this together....

[@techpub]

Good tip!

[@WaseemKhan-yo8zh]

Finally perfect video on setting up AVD, some very too short and others too long, Thank You for making this.

[@techpub]

Glad it was helpful!

[@anthonyholleran2721]

Love the teaching style, the analogies and explanations. Easy to wrap my A.D.H.D. mind around quite effectively and easily! Thank you, Sir!

[@techpub]

Great! I live with two ADHD people so I have lots of exp.

[@MuhammadMehdi-or9fx]

This video was incredibly helpful to me. The explanations were clear and easy to follow, making the process of setting up Azure Virtual Desktops much simpler. Thank you for such a great guide.

[@techpub]

Glad it helped!

[@AnuruddhaKarunanayake]

Excellent explanation. Thank you. Clean and straight to point.

[@techpub]

Thanks for watching.

[@LinettePérezCampos]

Hi My VM keeps getting created outside the host pool and I follow all your steps. Why might this be happening? Thank you

[@rmsarg]

Crystal Clear Video - Excellent

[@techpub]

Glad it helped!

[@patrick__007]

You've used the join to Entra ID (previous known as Azure Active Directory) but what would you recommend when there is a need for a server eith some shares and a legacy application installed? How do the users connect to this server? Is there a need for Entra Domain Services or such?

[@techpub]

You can use a virtual machine at Azure connected to Entra. Users can connect using RDP on port 3389, or you can setup an Azure VPN.

[@marshal1978]

I was able to set this up ..very helpful..thank you

[@techpub]

Glad it helped!

[@PraXisWebDesign]

I have a question. If I only have 1 Azure Virtual Desktop is it possible for me to grant or restrict access to some local folders on the C: Drive of the Virtual Desktop. I have multiple people connecting via their Virtual Desktop Session I want everyone to access the folders on the C: Drive because they need it for accounting I just DON'T want them to copy/delete or do whatever they want with thoses folders. I know that I can't use NTFS permission in my situation. Is their any way to restrict access via the Virtual Desktop Session instead. Thanks in advance.

[@kudakwashemujiri6621]

Did you get an answer here @PraXisWebDesign

[@brandonorie5484]

incredible video appreciate you, hopefully you create more azure videos.

[@techpub]

Glad it helped. Please consider subbing.

[@nandossauce]

Great vid, all went perfectly! Thanks

[@techpub]

Glad it helped!

[@khudadadhussaini9695]

If I complete this lap, it is gonna cost me how much? Any solution for this, please?

[@techpub]

I don't know but there is an Azure calculator that can help.

[@geeksified]

That Azure AD User, may I know where did you create that? Do they need an azure account? Coz I just want my employees to connect to multi-session desktop but they don't have an azure account.

[@techpub]

Youc an create it in admin.microsoft.com or entra.microsoft. Thanks for watching!

[@geeksified]

Thanks@@techpub! May I know what should I be doing for the 2nd/3rd user to login into that same AVD that I just created? So far, I can only login to 1 user.

[@geeksified]

Instead of creating 3 individual VMs for 3 users, can I create only 1 VM and let 3 people connect to it? I tried your steps and only 1 can connect.

[@techpub]

That is a good question. I assume you can by adding the RBAC permissions. I will have to look into that.

[@ReouvenNakache]

Hi @Tech Pub, Do you maybe know a way that the users will get a "clean" environment every time they login. I mean without any files saved, browsing history, cookies etc..

[@techpub]

Only with a new user would that happen.

[@DaysofIresh]

Hi Robert! What are the prereqs for if I need to join this VM to my on-prem AD?

[@techpub]

Just make sure your VM switch is set to external and on the same subnet as the DC.

[@DaysofIresh]

@@techpub You mean adding DC IP to vnet subnets?

[@RickyVaughn2]

I am having the same issues as some others here. Followed everything, getting this "Sign in failed. Please check your username and password and try again." with both local and ad accounts. Any suggestions?

[@RickyVaughn2]

For me, it looks like it was MFA. I had to exclude the user account from MFA using conditional access.

[@techpub]

Thanks for the tip Ricky.

[@myself_x_webber]

@@RickyVaughn2 Same here, Thanks!

[@neilgreene]

I have been an IT professional now for 35+ years. And it never fails, the simplest things in Microsoft, error with some strange error message with no direct lookup that explain what it is. I have a brand new Azure subscription with my prior Office 365 AD account. I just subscripted to Azure services so nothing currently exists. I am trying the Virtual Desktop GETTING STARTED wizard which is supposed to create the EDS. But everything fails with a write error. Ugh! So much for using the Wizard.

[@neilgreene]

Your video is great content though.

[@techpub]

Sorry to hear you're having a hard time. Let me know when you get a resolution so we can post it.

[@Prakashdoss]

Good session

[@techpub]

Thanks for watching!

[@joshuadelacruz3907]

Mine's having a trouble with resource being unavailable because of DomainADJoined and DomainTrust problem.

[@pandianvenkat-je3cs]

Pls select correct option in domain enable section. Whether you have Active Directory or MS Entra ID while add session host.

[@techpub]

Thanks for helping out.

[@joshuadelacruz3907]

@@pandianvenkat-je3cs thanks for this but I already fixed it. It might just be a bug or something because I already did what you said before I asked the question but still not fixed. But when I deleted the host pool and recreated everything, it worked.

[@amr-50]

Thanks for the informative video

[@techpub]

Glad it helped. Please consider subbing.

[@66boram]

Great video!

[@techpub]

Thanks for watching.

[@Jimbokoln]

when connecting to the virtual desktop it askes for a password, when i use my microsoft password it doesn't work! when did we set it up?

[@khadermadani]

I completed all the steps in this video and when I try to connect to the virtual desktop it is also saying invalid user

[@khadermadani]

I was able to get in using the local admin account that we created.

[@techpub]

Glad to hear you got it.

[@AtharvBogra]

Im also having the same issue, were you able to fix it? And how? Also using the winadmin login also doesnt work for me

[@RemySchroeder-y5x]

Hi.. was my comment deleted?

[@techpub]

I didn't see it. Maybe the algo got you for some reason.

[@tonymurray1064]

Thanks!

[@techpub]

Thanks for the tip and thanks for watching.

[@venkateshg9517]

Nice video cutting all crap, discussed what is required.

[@techpub]

Thanks for the view