Azure Virtual Desktop
Allow your team to access their desktop, applications and everything that they need to be able work from anywhere in the world.
Introduction
If there’s one thing we learnt over recent years, it’s that remote working is here to stay. Making it key that your business has a secure solution in place. Well, we’ve got good news for you.
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), previously known as Windows Virtual Desktop, is the latest Azure virtual desktop experience from Microsoft. It enables your organisation to experience its office environment from anywhere in the world with access to any device. AVD is a complete solution for desktop and application virtualisation, bringing new levels of resiliency to your business.
Create a secure, flexible working environment
Our deployment packages take care of your entire project, minimising business impact and deploying a secure AVD environment aligned to Microsoft’s best practices.
Rapid Deployment Service
Ideal for those that want a fast and effective deployment up to 50 users (can be used as an initial phase to a larger project or POC)
Advanced Deployment Service
A full solution covering all requirements you may have across user types, networks, and applications up to 400 users.
Enterprise Deployment Service
For those greater than 400 users who require multiple Azure regions and multiple sites.
Why choose SR Cloud Solutions?
We provide top-tier Azure managed services to help reduce operational risks. Our experts possess the skillset, insights, and experience required to migrate and manage the entirety of your cloud lifecycle with diligence.
We take care of everything from developing personalised cloud solutions to managing workload migrations. When it comes to stellar cloud management and monitoring, we’re the best in the game.
Also, we assist users to reduce security risks and ensure that the firm doesn’t fall victim to modern cloud security problems. From managing multi-cloud environments to ensuring compliance, we take care of it all.
Thus, with our Azure migration and managed services you’ll be able to fill management and technological gaps. Furthermore, you can secure your bottom line, and steadily grow your organisation.
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- We are a Joscar accredited business which means we are certified to work with leading defense companies who require the highest standards of cyber security.
- We are experts in Cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure so we can provide expert consultancy on migrations, hybrid cloud environments, security, cost optimisations, application modernisation and cloud governance.
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Our Approach, Your Advantage
So you’re looking to kickstart your AVD project? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re new to Azure or already running workloads, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is the solution for remote working to build resilience in your business continuity plans and keep your organisation productive in any situation. Below are the main phases we employ to deliver your AVD solution.
Discovery & Design
As part of the discovery & design phase, we will help map your business requirements per department, or role, and design your Azure Virtual Desktop deployment to align with these. This phase will identify the Azure environment requirements and provide a cost estimate for your monthly Azure spend. For the Rapid Deployment Service, an essential list (or set of testing objectives for POC) for remote working will be defined to get you up and running quickly and efficiently.
Deployment
At the deployment stage, we will use our findings to deploy an AVD environment that meets your requirements.
Our Azure Experts will ensure your deployment is optimised for performance, cost, and security. Our architects are experienced and highly skilled in Azure Virtual Desktop with the various certifications and accreditations that come with working for an approved Microsoft MSP partner – be safe in the knowledge that your deployment will be conducted to the highest standards.
Roll-Out
Once the deployment is complete, we will train your admin users and provide documentation of your Azure Virtual Desktop solution. We will also complete Functional and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure you are fully comfortable with your end solution. For end-users, we will check the ability to log in and help them to understand how to access their desktop to minimise any disruption to your everyday business activities.
Create a secure, flexible working environment
Flexibility
Azure Virtual Desktop can give you the best of both world: the flexibility and freedom to work from anywhere at any time with the security and stability you’d expect from a physical infrastructure – all at a fraction of the cost. Managing your end users, devices, virtual machines and deployments is made easier from a single interface, giving you the control that you need over your environment and allowing you the time to focus on your business.
Enhanced Experience
Your employee's experience with their usual desktop or laptop can be the same as usual, if not enhanced. Through AVD, they can share documents from OneDrive, collaborate through SharePoint and chat as usual via Microsoft Teams.
Increased Productivity
Moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will certainly improve your organisation’s productivity. Using Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, you can ensure more lean and agile operations across the company. The employees can work with greater efficiency and flexibility while protecting the data against breaches.
Affordability
The payment structure may seem a little complicated at first glance but the concept is really pretty straightforward - with AVD you pay for what you use. You’ll need a certain Microsoft 365 licence for each user, such as 365 Business Premium. Utilising the Windows 10 multi-session capability within AVD means less virtual machines and therefore less cost. Turn off your virtual desktops when you’re not using them and save yourself even more.
Advanced Security
Through Microsoft Azure, you can store all user data instead of desktops, where they will be safe from cyber-attacks, natural disasters and other potential threats. Take advantage of the supply of security solutions Azure offers to keep you safe such as Azure firewall and security centre.
Scalability
Once you’ve set up one or more virtual desktops in the management console, adding a new user couldn’t be easier. You can have a new starter setup within minutes and likewise, can remove access instantly. This is all managed from a central location making it so easy to scale your business in a heartbeat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Azure Virtual Desktop is Microsoft’s comprehensive desktop and app virtualisation service running on the cloud. It provides business users the freedom of having the same level of Windows 10 user experience to critical apps or data in Azure as they would have on their regular office desktops. In addition, it offers IT the ease of manageability, scalability, and security that they need.
It is the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimisation for Microsoft 365, and support for Remote Desktop Services Environments. With AzureVirtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, with built-in security and compliance.
- Access from anywhere. Empower your employees to securely access critical apps and data wherever they are, using any device.
- Reduce IT spend. Run programs inexpensively even from non-high-end PCs or Chromebooks with your users not needing to download their much-needed apps. Multi-session Windows 10 experience allows concurrent users to utilise the same Windows 10 environment which enables you to save on software costs.
- Increase productivity. Seamlessly virtualise both desktops and apps by enabling you to manage Windows 10, Windows Server 2019 desktops and apps all with a unified management experience in Azure. Deploy virtualised desktops and apps in minutes instead of having to install various software per device.
- Enhanced Security. AVD removes the risk of your corporate data getting taken along if your employee’s device gets lost or stolen, with your data residing in Azure’s remote servers.
There are many differences between RDS and AVD but the four important ones are around the control plane, session host, autoscaling and native integration with Microsoft 365 solutions.
The use cases can differ from one organisation to another. You can use Azure Virtual Desktop to standardise your IT environment, provide powerful desktop environment instead of buying high end laptops for your users or use it as a DR solution. Watch this short video as we explain the various use cases for AVD.
AVD reduces customer costs by reducing infrastructure, licensing, and labour costs. Multi-session Windows 10 allows significant savings in compute resources, and AVD service now replaces complex management requirements of RDS/VDI solutions. AVD is free to use with many existing licenses and you no longer have to pay for RDS CAL licenses. Finally, labour savings are realised by the shift from IaaS to PaaS removing the need to manage core services like broker/gateway/web access etc. reducing management overhead.
Yes, this is possible. Please see the following page highlighting Citrix Cloud DaaS solutions and how it integrates with AVD with additional functionality and features suited to large corporations.
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