so we're kicking off a new section today
in the az140 study guide series
now looking at our users and profiles
and the first thing to talk about
wvd licensing okay
so you either really love this topic or
you've been really dreading it
but i promise we're gonna make this as
painless as possible
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i'm dean safola and this is the azure
academy honestly as a technical person
i don't generally work with licensing
that's what other people
in sales and people who are licensing
specialists do and they take care of all
of that stuff
long before i work with my customers to
architect their solutions
not today my friends today you are going
to be a wvd licensing expert
so you're ready for the test because
quite honestly there's a lot of options
please do me a favor and help everybody
else out who watches this video by
commenting down below with the licenses
that you have in your organization and
why you pick them and if you have a
question about any of this go ahead and
ask it down
in the comments as well and if you
happen to know that question that
somebody else posted
go ahead and jump in so that we can all
learn together now in the resources
section down below in the video
description i have several
links and so this will be a quick video
i'll give you what you need and then we
can get back to the technical stuff
now the best place to start with all of
this is going to be that first link in
the video description
and that goes to the wvd documentation
page
for all of the requirements and you
should have seen this table already when
we were in episode 4
talking about virtual machine planning
and if you missed it you better go check
it out because there's a lot to do
in there with planning your virtual
machines and specifically we were
talking about the left side here which
is the operating systems but today we
need to talk about the right side
and that is the user licenses and just
to make this really clear
each user in your environment needs a
license in order for them to use wvd
and to sum up all of this chart here you
need either
a windows or microsoft 365 license
in the e3 e5 a3
a5 and additionally you can have
microsoft 365
f3 or business premium now if you don't
work with licenses on a regular basis
i'm sure that what you heard was
so let's group these licenses together
so they make a little bit more sense
we have our e licenses these are for the
office or
informational type workers there are the
f
licenses and those are for the frontline
workers and then there are the
a licenses and these are for academics
or education
users and one last thing on this table
and then we're going to make all of this
practical for you
is the section here on windows server
licenses
if you are using windows server in wvd
you will
also need rds cals with software
assurance
just like you would have with rds or
terminal server
and for those of you who don't know what
software assurance is we have a link for
that in the description
and this is just another aspect of
licensing which does have quite a few
benefits
including reducing the cost of your
azure virtual machines now to explain
this in a little bit
more detail and to give you something to
take home with you because you probably
won't remember everything that i say
here
i've got a spreadsheet for you and on
this spreadsheet we're gonna break down
all the different license types and
their features
and if you scroll all the way to the
bottom you will find windows virtual
desktop and which license types it is
enabled with okay so now that you have
this spreadsheet with all this wonderful
information
we're going to play a game called which
license is right for you
so comment down below with your answers
and remember no cheating
question number one you have a customer
who wants to spend as little money as
possible to use wvd
and they want strong security with
microsoft defender
and windows hello for business what do
you do techie
comment down below with which license
type is going to fit that customer
question number two and this is a
two-part question
i need wvd to work for 2000 front line
workers
i need them to use wvd teams and the
desktop
version of microsoft office oh and i
need power automate and
microsoft defender and the second half
of this question
give me an example of what a frontline
worker actually means all right ready
for question number three
this is going to be a tough one i've got
5 000
wvd users at my company each person
needs one drive for business for all of
their documents multi-factor
authentication
conditional access and we use teams for
all of our communications
so we need communication data loss
prevention
in our team's chat so comment down below
on which license you think fulfills
those requirements
and i've got a bonus question for you
and you're going to have to do
just a little bit of work hint hint to
find
the answer to this question i have 500
wvd users at a university 100 faculty
and 400 students i want to get a license
that gives me access to wvd
and teams for the classroom along with
power bi pro so leave your comments down
below
on your answers for question one two and
three and if you feel brave enough to do
the bonus
put that in there as well now once you
have put in your own answers go ahead
and check around what the other people
have said maybe they thought of
something that you didn't or maybe they
missed something that you picked up on
and let's discuss that in the chat so
that we can all learn together and the
last link in our video description is
going to be to
this page which goes over basically
every detail around wvd pricing
and so we've got our section here at the
top about licensing and all the details
about using wvd and all of the
components that are there but i want to
scroll down
so we've got four estimates here two for
personal desktops and two for
multi-session and i'll select the
pricing
for the east u.s at the bottom for six
users per cpu and if you've never seen
this before this is the azure pricing
calculator
and you can basically use this to model
out what it would be like if you
provisioned
certain number of resources of a certain
kind and you could use that to make
estimates like the one we're looking at
here and if we scroll down to look at
the estimate we've got at the top here
components which would be windows
virtual desktop
storage accounts and bandwidth so we'll
open virtual desktops and scroll down
until we get to the virtual machine
section
now over there you have the savings
options so we have three choices
pay as you go which is regular pricing
and then we have
one year reserved or three year reserve
and you can see you go from a 40
to a 62 discount now this is using azure
reserved instances
and this is where you pre-buy the
virtual machine so that microsoft knows
you're going to be using these resources
and they're going to give you a discount
because of it
and so that's an estimate and if that
one doesn't fit you then you can tweak
it and make it fit your scenario so
you'd get your approximate cost
keep in mind however that nowhere on
this page do you see the wvd user
license cost this is just looking at the
azure resources to build you that
estimate your licensing cost
is separate and like i said before you
most likely
already have it and the last thing that
i'll show you in this episode
is right at the bottom so here's some
final thoughts to keep in mind what do
you do
if you don't have the appropriate
licensing
well you can contact microsoft or one of
the microsoft partners
who can help you out with that and the
last question which we maybe should have
included earlier when i was asking you
questions is
what are the eligible licenses for
fslogix i mean that's a big component
in windows virtual desktop but actually
that's a trick question
because fslogix is already included in
all the wvd licensing options that we
already talked about
so no additional cost there and we're
going to have several episodes coming up
on
fslogix in fact between you and me
that's going to be the next episode as
we talk about fs logic
storage options so be sure that you're
subscribed and that you've rung that
notification bell
so that you don't miss when that one
comes out and thanks for joining me
today for planning your wvd licensing
see
that wasn't so bad and as usual you can
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i'll catch you in the next episode
happy learning