I'm Dean Cefola and this is the Azure Academy we've got another video in our
Windows virtual desktop series for you today and this time we're talking about
management through the new web UI portal so please take a moment and click on
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comments below what you're interested in so we can help you out moving forward so
let's jump over to github so this is the official RDS templates repository we're
going to go to the wvd templates and then to the WVD management UX and then
to the deploy folder so we're going to click on the deploy to Azure button and
that'll sign us into the portal all right and we're going to run this
deployment by selecting a resource group these first two items here don't change
the text at all otherwise this won't work so now we need to provide a
username and password and a name for our management application so the username
and password according to the tooltip here needs to be one that is a
contributor on the subscription and also is an owner of the RDS 10ma and I'll
just call my application wvd web UX and we'll hit purchase ok so that'll take a
few seconds to deploy alright so that's all finished let's go to our resource
group okay so we have deployed a app service plan and a app service and a API
so if we go to our app service here and we hit browse that'll bring us into the
UI itself now the UI needs to be registered as a application within Azure
Active Directory so if we go back to as your ad to our enterprise apps currently
we do not have it registered but if we go back and here we go
now it's asking to be registered so let's sign in and we have to give it the
permission and consent on behalf of our organization and we'll create a new
enterprise application with that long name there and let's hit accept now we
have to select which tenant group and you probably only have one at this point
so hit save now we're logged into the UI so let's go back to Azure ad and go back
to enterprise apps and there is our new application ok and now under the
permissions you can see that has permissions on the Windows virtual
desktop which is again another enterprise application and that's where
we assign the tenant creator permissions in our first video so back in the web UI
I've got two tenants at this time and if I click on this second tenant here we
can then see what host pools I have I only have one in this particular tenant
and we click on edit this is where we can make the name description' and we
can update and that now has updated in our description field here and then if
you click on the host cool it will then show you what hosts you have I do not
have any at this point in time in this pool and then you can also go see what
app groups there are so I do not really have anything this is just the default
app group so let's look at our other tenant and here are our two session
hosts and if we click on our checkbox here and click Edit on one of them then
we can choose to deny any new sessions now we could do this in PowerShell as
well by setting allow new sessions to false but you could do it here in the UI
so we'll hit update there now this server will no longer accept connections
but our first one will and then if we look at our app groups we see we have
our default desktop app group as well as our app group that we created and if we
click on the check box for that we can see which applications are currently
hosted and I've only got three of them here and then we can choose to publish
new apps so if we hit the publish app from start menu button that'll scan our
systems and find what apps are installed and there we go so we can add whatever
apps we want from here so I'm gonna add publisher and I'll also add Visio and
we'll hit publish and those are now published to our app group and let's
just say that we want to remove PowerPoint and we'll hit remove app so
there you go you can now control your app groups from this web interface and
if you still want to do it from a publish path then you can do that all
you have to do is provide the exact path for example something like defrag and
we'll hit publish and there you go so either way still works and let's go to
our users here and this is all the users that are in our app pool and we could
add and move users from here so let's remove
these three users there you go all successfully removed and let's add
Batman back in there and we'll hit add and there is so now full management over
the app groups adding the users removing users applications etc can all be done
now from the web UI which is really great I mean as much as I do love
PowerShell sometimes especially if you're new to something a graphical UI
is very helpful for getting to understand what's going on so just a
quick review so we have our tenant level and we have our multiple tenants that
can be present the management of tenant groups is not yet available in this
preview phase but as we get to general availability we'll see what happens with
that feature and when we go inside our tenant groups we then have our host
pools and in this case this particular tenant has two hosts pools one for
persistent desktops one for non persistent desktops as well as we can
see the different app groups and when you have non persistent desktops you can
also have the remote application groups and then you can host remote application
sessions from them not just desktop sessions and then inside each of those
app groups we then can set up whatever applications we want and whatever users
we want to allow to have access to those groups and then from our hosts section
we can manipulate our hosts to accept or deny new sessions so that we can rotate
them through the pool or do patches or maintenance or whatever we need to do on
those as we go so I hope you've enjoyed this quick look at the Windows virtual
desktop web management UI so that you can get a graphical look at what's going
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