Azure Virtual Desktop

This repository contains the files for a basic Azure Virtual Desktop implementation with the Azure Image Builder

Microsoft Azure configuration

You will need to create (at least) two Azure AD Groups: AVD-Users AVD-Admins

You can name them however you want, one will be used for assignments of application to users and one to admins

After you've created the accounts add their guid to the parameter files

"adminGroupPrincipalId": {
    "value":""
},
"userGroupPrincipalId": {
    "value":""
}

Azure DevOps configuration

Environments

You will need to create two environments:

1. Test
2. Prod

Variable Group(s)

Name: AVD

• Subscription.Test = subscriptionID for test environment
• Subscription.Prod = subscriptionID for prod environment, can be the same as for test
• AzureResourceManagerConnection = Name of your Azure Service Connection
• LocalAdminName = username of the localadmin account for the VMs
• LocalAdminPassword = password of the localadmin account for the VMs
• FSLogixProfileStoragePrefix = prefix for the FSLogix profile storage account
• softwareStorageAccountName - name of the storage account for the software

Pipeline(s)

Two (2) pipelines are used:

1. Image Builder and everything related build.pipeline.yml
2. Azure Virtual Desktop and everything related avd.pipeline.yml

You will have to execute the build.pipeline.yml first, in order for the avd.pipeline.yml to use a valid image

Potential issues / bugs

Microsoft.KeyVault not registered (during Image Build phase)

Register the Resource Provider Microsoft.KeyVault to the prod-subscription