Windows Virtual Desktop WVD: 2-Wk Proof of Concept

With the Covid-19 virus, many employees are working from home on either personal or corporate assets. Companies are looking to provide a secure desktop environment to provide employees with the resources they need to perform their job even though they are remote.

To meet this requirement, Microsoft provides Desktop as a Service (DaaS) using Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. WVD is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in Azure. It is optimized for Office 365/Microsoft 365, and supports Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments.

Since it uses Azure, WVD can configured to scale up and scale down to meet your ever-changing user requirements this reducing overall computing costs. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes and get built-in security and compliance features.

If you would like to confirm whether the Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop meets your business requirements, Preeminent can deploy a Proof of Concept (PoC) for WVD in your environment. This PoC would be a limited-scope implementation to determine whether the solution meets your requirements.

Preeminent’s Proof of Concept for WVD solution includes:

• Supports up to total 5 Test WVD users
• 1 WVD pool
• 2 Virtual Machines (including 1 for the gold image) of Windows 10
• 3 Applications (Microsoft Teams, Google Chrome & Adobe Reader)
• WVD Tenant
• AD Domain Controller in Azure
• File Server
• Azure Virtual Network
• 1 Session Host VM (per 5 test users) configured for pooled sessions
• Azure Authentication with MFA
• Azure Backup for File Server and Domain Controller

Customer provides all required subscriptions and licenses.