Windows Virtual Desktop Real-world Demos, Pricing and ROI Numbers, Experience Shares and Guidance

We have replaced our servers with cloud services in Microsoft 365 for email, files, phones, security and device controls.

The Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 moved us from a central office we drive to, to a virtual office we connect into, powered by Microsoft Teams.

Our backend IT is virtual, and our offices are virtual.

But there is one thing that is left…the end-user computers — they are becoming virtual too, powered by Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop hosted in Microsoft Azure.

If you share my vision (and belief) of a 100% (or close to it) virtual office with 100% cloud IT from the backend IT systems to the frontend end-user computers then this video is for you.

The future of end-user computing for businesses is Windows Virtual Desktop.

This video will get you beyond “not knowing what you don’t know” to having a proper technical, street-smart, business oriented orientation into what Windows Virtual Desktop might look like for your company.

This video will help senior IT managers “connect the dots” between the world of legacy Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and the modern Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) cloud services.

You won’t make these mistakes:

Paralysis – you don’t have the confidence to make the move to WVD, and your IT skills and the company’s IT remains dated….your career floundering.

Overpricing – then the project never gets funded.

Underpricing – then when the project goes into production, it isn’t powerful enough, users hate it and management isn’t happy with you, then the only way to fix it is to increase the power, and now the monthly Azure cost is over budget.

This video took over 4 months to put together and it is a PACKED 3 hours. You’ll need to take notes and watch it 2-3 times.

Below is a detailed list of time-codes you can use to refer back to certain parts of the video. I HIGHLY recommend against skipping around to parts that interest you most because that is how most of you approach your IT education – in bits and pieces by Google searching for a solution, but without a proper training plan an that leads to not being confidence to move forward with a big change like this, and thus your IT skills remain stagnent, and your companies IT remains dated. This video will help you change this .

-Wayne

00:00:00 The Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Vision
00:03:44 What I’m going to demo.
00:06:09 What I’m going to cover for planning and pricing.
00:06:55 What you are going to get out of watching this video.
00:08:07 How to watch this very lengthy video.
00:09:17 Why migrate to Windows Virtual Desktop in the first place?
00:12:46 Connecting the dots between old school RDS vs WVD.
00:15:53 The cost and complexity advantages of WVD over RDS.
00:18:39 Shifting from traditional server VM’s in RDS to Azure cloud services for WVD
00:24:35 Driving down WVD costs
00:34:28 FSLogix – the modern solution to old school roaming profiles
00:39:12 The WVD client app vs. traditional RDP client app
00:40:37 WVD client app workspace demo overview
00:42:03 What’s really great about the WVD client app
00:44:33 Demo: WVD – straight out of the box, default, no special configurations
00:49:10 Demo: WVD – highly secured and locked down configuration.
00:53:43 Demo: WVD and Microsoft Teams
00:56:50 Demo: WVD and Microsoft Teams Phone System
00:57:42 Demo: WVD and Microsoft Teams Audio/Video Conferencing
00:58:38 Demo: WVD Remote App using Quickbooks
01:02:42 Demo: High-end Graphics/GPU Windows Virtual Desktop
01:07:39 Hardware thin clients
01:08:44 Windows 10 Enterprise IoT operating system for thin clients
01:13:15 HP desktop and laptop thin clients
01:18:44 Demo: Samsung Dex with Android WVD client
01:23:39 Demo and Orientation: WVD inside the Microsoft Azure portal
01:27:41 Detailed Planning and Pricing a WVD System
01:35:43 WVD and your Microsoft 365 subscriptions
01:38:15 Designing an Azure virtual network for WVD
01:44:20 Orientation on WVD workspaces, host pools and application groups
01:46:11 WVD workspace design
01:49:26 WVD host pools design
02:02:31 WVD backup, business continuity and security
02:13:04 WVD Pricing and cost comparisons