AVD deployment - free

Our expert team of consultants have successfully delivered many Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) projects, to maximise impact and minimise costs for our clients.

Microsoft can fund us to deliver Azure Virtual Desktop implementation projects where they meet certain criteria, which means that we can offer this service to you for free.

We work with you to manage the implementation of Azure Virtual Desktop with minimum business disruption. Key project tasks include:

1. Defining user groups Who in your organisation do you want to provide with an Azure Virtual Desktop and what are their needs?

2. Making sure you have all the components for set-up: ● Azure AD ● Azure subscription ● Domain Controller synced with Azure AD ● Virtual network for the session hosts ● Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts ● FSLogix for user profile containers ● Central storage location for the FSLogix user profile disks

3. Setting up your Domain Controller

4. Creating your images We deploy a normal Azure VM and use this to create the image for your Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts.

5. Choosing the size and number of session hosts We will work with you to decide how much computing power to allocate to each Azure Virtual Desktop. This will depend on what the users’ workloads require.

6. Deploying host pools Host pools are a collection of one or more identical virtual machines (Session Hosts) within the Azure AVD environment.

7. Setting up Application Groups Assigning users to the app so that they can sign into the AVD service to access their virtual desktop session.

8. Guidance on performance management We will help you in balancing latency and speed based on your specific requirements and locations.

9. Choosing the right AVD licences We work with you to make sure you have the correct AVD licences for your rollout.

10. Testing performance and refine After AVD is deployed, our priority is to test performance for your users. We will help to refine this based on user density per processor and cost to ensure the performance you require.

You don't have to buy your Azure consumption from us to benefit from this free implementation service. But if you do sign up with Compete366 for your Azure billing, we guarantee that you’ll pay the same for your Azure consumption as when you subscribe directly with Microsoft, but with the added benefit of free ongoing expert AVD advice from our dedicated team of experienced technical consultants.