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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
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Professional expertise distilled
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Professional expertise distilled.
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Putting the V in VDI -- An Introduction to Virtualization in Hyper-V; Server virtualization and Hyper-V; Virtual Hard Disks; Installing and configuring Hyper-V; Configuring Hyper-V; Creating a simple virtual machine; Checkpoints; Managing Windows Server and Hyper-V; Hyper-V Server and Server Core; Getting started with server management; Creating the RDS-DC VM; Configuring the new VM as a DC; Adding users and groups; Joining the physical host to the domain. |
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Managing multiple servers in Server ManagerDesired State Configuration; Summary; Chapter 2: Designing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure; Remote Desktop Services and VDI; Advantages of remote desktops; VDI versus Session Virtualization; Remote applications in RDS; VDI roles; Remote Desktop Virtualization Host; Remote Desktop Connection Broker; Remote Desktop Web Access Server; Remote Desktop Gateway; Remote desktop licensing server; Remote Desktop Session Host; Types of VDI collections; Getting started with VDI; Creating the virtual desktop template; Setting up and configuring the RDS roles. |
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Creating a Pooled CollectionCreating an RD Session Collection; Summary; Chapter 3: Putting the D in VDI -- Creating a Desktop Template; Desktop deployment for VDI; Microsoft deployment tools; Installing MDT; Working with answer files; Building a new Virtual Desktop Template with MDT; Creating a task sequence to deploy the captured OS to the reference computer; Updating the deployment share; Creating the reference computer; Run the deployment wizard; Automating MDT; Deploying applications with MDT; Configuring collection properties ; Group Policy and the virtual desktop. |
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Group Policy with Session VirtualizationApplication control; Summary; Chapter 4: Putting the R into Remote Desktop; Introducing the Remote Desktop Gateway; Certificates; Creating a self-signed certificate; Getting started with the Remote Desktop Gateway; Active Directory authentication; Opening additional ports on the firewall; Relying on a forest trust relationship; Using a read-only domain controller; Creating an RODC; Creating the perimeter network; Configuring the virtual switches; Configuring Routing and Remote Access; Completing the gateway design; Locking down the perimeter network. |
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Active DirectoryThe remote desktop; Remote access without using the gateway; Summary; Chapter 5: High Availability; Why high availability matters for VDI; Designing HA for VDI; HA for the RD Broker role; Creating an RD Broker Farm; HA for the RD Web Access and RD Gateway roles; Setting up NLB; HA and Hyper-V; HA for virtual desktop collections; HA for session collections; HA for VDI collections; Summary; Chapter 6: Scale and Performance; Understanding scale and performance; Testing RDS; Hyper-V; RDS role servers; RD Broker; Tuning the RD Gateway and RD Web Access roles; Session Collections. |
| Summary |
This comprehensive, example-based guide on VDI with its practical and easy to follow approach will serve as a reference that you will want to come back to again and again for guidance. If you are an IT professional working on desktop deployment or server management with some exposure to Windows or Windows Server, this book is for you. VDI requires a lot of infrastructure, so some core knowledge is required, for example, the basics of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Microsoft Windows (Computer file)
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Microsoft Windows (Computer file) |
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Microsoft Windows (Computer file) |
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Microsoft Windows (Computer file) |
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Microsoft Windows (Computer file) |
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Virtual computer systems.
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Virtual computer systems. |
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Data recovery (Computer science)
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Data recovery (Computer science) |
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Electronic books.
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Getting started with Windows Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
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Print version: Fryer, Andrew. Getting Started with Windows VDI. Birmingham : Packt Publishing, ©2014 9781782171461 |
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9781782171478 |
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1782171479 |
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1782171460 |
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9781782171461 |
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9781782171461 |
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