PowerPoint Presentation

Accelerating Cloud

Virtual Desktops

Leveraging Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop to create a dynamic

workstation experience for users anywhere, on any device.

Workshop contents

Introduction

About Slalom

About Azure Virtual Desktop

P13

Our Approach

P18

Q&A + Next Steps

About

Slalom

WHAT WE DO

Slalom is a purpose-led, global business

and technology consulting company.

From strategy to implementation, our approach is

fiercely human. We deeply understand our customers—

and their customers—to deliver practical,

end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact.

2022 US Analytics Partner of the Year

Microsoft Gold Partner

350+ 53

Microsoft Solutions

Microsoft & Slalom

achieve more

together.

Cloud architecture

and migration

Product engineering

Enterprise application

strategy and

deployment

Artificial Intelligence

and machine learning

Data architecture

DevOps

Data visualization and

storytelling

Simplifying end user

computing with Azure

Virtual Desktop

Embrace the challenges of a

remote workforce

Secure workstations keep

you in control

Provide a workstation

experience on any device

About Azure Virtual Desktop

Enable optimizations for

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

Migrate Windows Server (RDS)

desktops and apps

Deliver the only multi-session

Windows 10 experience

Deploy and scale in minutes

Windows 10

Office 365

Windows

Server

Azure Virtual Desktop is available worldwide

When is virtualization useful?

Security

and regulation

Financial services

Health care

Government

Elastic

workforce

Mergers and acquisition

Short-term employees

Contractors and partners

Remote

employees

BYOD and mobile

Call centers

Branch workers

Specialized

workloads

Design and engineering

Legacy apps

Software dev test

Azure

>90 compliance offerings

>3,500 global cybersecurity experts

6.5 trillion global signals daily

$1 billion annual cybersecurity

investment

Microsoft 365

Conditional Access

Multi-Factor Authentication

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Azure Virtual Desktop

Reverse Connect

Azure AD authentication

AD-joined virtual machines

Blending security across the

Microsoft ecosystem

• Can connect to on-premises resources via

ExpressRoute or VPN

• User authentication using Azure Active Directory

identities

• Integrates with Systems Center Configuration

Manager and Microsoft Intune

• Supports devices running non-Windows operating

systems with Linux thin-client SDK and other tools

An optimized

computing platform

High-level service architecture

Your subscription—your control

Managed by Microsoft

Clients

Management

Diagnostics Gateway

Broker Load balancing

Azure Virtual Desktop Service

Compute Storage Networking

Infrastructure

Windows 7 Enterprise

Full Desktop

RemoteApp

Windows 10 Enterprise

Windows Server

2012 R2 and newer

Windows 10 Enterprise multi-

session

User management and

identity

Image, app, and profile

management

Networking policies

User density, VM sizing,

and scaling policies

Full Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365

The right technology for all your needs

Cloud PC

– Windows 365

Optimized for simplicity

Cloud VDI

– Azure Virtual Desktop

Optimized for flexibility

Windows 10 or Windows 11 (soon) personalized

desktop

Windows 10, Windows 11 (soon), or Windows Server multi

session desktops

Complete end

-to-end Microsoft service

Remote app streaming

One

-stop administration in Microsoft Endpoint Manager

(Enterprise edition)

Full control over configuration and management

Direct self

-service model (Business edition)

Citrix and VMware support

Predictable per user pricing

Flexible consumption

-based pricing

Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – Comparing Two DaaS Products - Nerdio (getnerdio.com)

Choosing Between Windows 365 & Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) | Nerdio (getnerdio.com)

Our Approach

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure can provision

new hosts or scale up or down

existing ones in minutes on-

demand, driving down cost.

Synthetic Health Checks

Minute by minute synthetic

health checks of the entire logon

process grant instant notification

of any possible issues.

Nerdio Manager for

Enterprise

Nerdio provides an industry

leading control plane with

support for autoscaling,

automation and simple

management.

Monitoring and Analysis

Our solution includes custom

dashboards to offer single pane

of glass visibility into the AVD

environment.

Windows 10 multi-

session

AVD offers the exclusive

Windows 10 multi-session SKU

which allows an unlimited

number of users to use a single

machine at the same time.

Image as Code

By using Azure Image Builder

and modern DevOps processes,

image creation, validation, and

reuse can be done quickly with

no manual steps.

Bringing technologies

together

What is Nerdio?

Simplify & Automate

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise provides a one-click interface for

management of thousands of AVD hosts, images, sessions, pools,

and scripted actions with incredible ease.

Scale & Optimize

A built-in auto scaling and auto provisioning engine can power

up/down or create/delete hosts automatically as load increases.

Secure & Protect

Nerdio is built using native Azure technology (App Services,

Azure SQL, Automation Accounts) and runs within your

subscription. It provides a delegated RBAC permission model to

give support staff and administrators least privileged access with

robust audit logging.

Custom Monitoring

and Automation

Synthetic Health Checks

Custom once per minute synthetic health check validates Azure service health, on prem

connectivity, and user experience by following the login and connection flow as a real user.

Custom Dashboards

Single pane of glass dashboards built natively in Azure Log Analytics by Slalom use telemetry from

AVD Insights and Sepago, both configured by Nerdio by monitor every host, session, process, etc.

Automated DR Runbooks for Nerdio and AVD

Slalom created Azure Automation runbooks add multi-region backup and recovery to Nerdio

Manager for Enterprise and give administrators one click DR to a secondary region.

Building and Managing User Personas

Move beyond the manual image management and build native Azure

images using Azure Image Builder to serve diverse groups of users at scale.

Image as Code

Image as Code enables you to manage

and support desktop computing needs

for many different user personas in a

secure and scalable way.

Connected and secured by default

Image VMs can be VNET integrated for

monitoring and on prem access. All

resources are built in a temporary

resource group in your subscription.

Modular and Repeatable

Built with modern source control in

mind, desktop customizations can be

reused and mixed and matched to

provide every type of user with the

workstation experience they need.

What is Azure Image Builder?

Azure Image Builder is an Image as code

service leveraging HashiCorp Packer

and ARM templates that automatically

creates a build VM, applies desktop

customizations, then distributes the

images to AVD.

Connect with us to schedule a:

• 1:1 Demo for you and your team

• Proof of concept in your environment

• Customized Strategy Session