AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
June 29, 2026
This is a 4-day course, from June 29th to July 2nd.
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The AZ-140 training prepares you for the Configuring and Operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure exam and certification.
Candidates for this exam are Azure administrators with expertise in planning, delivering, and managing virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure.
Candidates for this exam should have experience with Azure technologies, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backups, resilience, and disaster recovery. They should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies related to migration to Windows Virtual Desktop. These professionals use the Azure portal and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to perform many of their tasks. They can use PowerShell and Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) for more efficient automation.
Candidates for this exam must possess expert Azure administration skills.
Module 1: Plan a Windows Virtual Desktop Architecture
In this module, you will learn how to assess existing physical and virtual desktop environments, plan and configure name resolution for Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS), and plan for Windows Virtual Desktop client deployments.
- Windows Virtual Desktop Architecture
- Design the WVD architecture
- Design for user identities and profiles
- Understand Windows Virtual Desktop Components
- Understand personal and pooled desktops
- Recommend an operating system for a WVD implementation
- Plan a host pools architecture
- Implement and manage networking for WVD
- Implement and manage storage for WVD
- Create and configure host pools and session hosts
- Create and manage session host image
- Implement Azure virtual network connectivity
- Manage connectivity to the internet and on-premises networks
- Understanding Windows Virtual Desktop network connectivity
- Configure WVD session hosts using Azure Bastion
- Configure storage for FSLogix components
- Configure disks and file shares
- Modify a session host image
- Create and use a Shared Image Gallery (SIG)
- Manage access
- Manage security
- Manage local roles, groups and rights assignment on WVD session hosts.
- Configure user restrictions by using AD group policies and Azure AD policies
- Understand Conditional Access policy components
- Prepare for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)-based Conditional Access for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Implement Azure AD-based Conditional Access for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Implement and manage FSLogix
- Configure user experience settings
- Install and configure apps on a session host
- Configure Profile Containers
- Configure Azure Files to store profile containers for WVD in an AAD DS environment
- Implement FSLogix based profiles for Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure AD DS environment
- Implement FSLogix based profiles for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Prepare for and create MSIX app packages
- Implement MSIX app attach container for Windows Virtual Desktop in AD DS environmen
- Plan and implement business continuity and disaster recovery
- Automate WVD management tasks
- Monitor and manage performance and health
- Plan and implement a disaster recovery plan for WVD
- Configure automation for WVD
- Monitor WVD by using Azure Monitor
- Customize Azure Workbooks for WVD monitoring
- Configure autoscaling of Windows Virtual Desktop session hosts
- Verify autoscaling of Windows Virtual Desktop session host
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