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A company is planning to deploy a remote development environment in Azure. The IT department wants to minimize management overhead by having Microsoft manage the virtualization infrastructure components, such as the web gateway, load balancer, and connection broker. However, the developers still require full administrative access to install custom compilers and customize the underlying operating system.

Which Azure service should the company deploy?

  1. A
    Azure Virtual Machines
  2. Azure Virtual DesktopAnswer
  3. C
    Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  4. D
    Azure App Service

Answer

Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop is a managed desktop and app virtualization service. Microsoft manages the complex virtualization control plane components (connection broker, gateway, load balancer, web access) as a platform service. The customer remains responsible for managing the session host virtual machines, which grants the developers the full administrative rights needed to customize the operating system and install tools.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the requirement for a managed desktop virtualization infrastructure.
Microsoft must manage the gateway, load balancer, and connection broker services.
To minimize management overhead for the IT department.
2
Identify the requirement for the end-user desktop environments.
Developers must have full administrative access to the underlying virtual operating system.
To allow the installation of custom compilers and development tools.
3
Evaluate the available Azure services against these requirements.
Azure Virtual Desktop meets both criteria by hosting customer-managed virtual machine session hosts underneath a Microsoft-managed control plane.
Azure Virtual Machines requires managing the virtualization infrastructure, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets does not provide VDI brokers, and Azure App Service does not support desktop operating systems.

Key Concept

Shared management responsibility and control plane architecture of Azure Virtual Desktop compared to Azure Virtual Machines
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Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

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