Introduction

  • 4 minutes

Suppose you work as a senior administrator at Contoso, Ltd., a midsize financial services company in London with a branch office in New York. Contoso has migrated existing Remote Desktop Services to Azure Virtual Desktop, so it no longer needs to manage basic infrastructure components like Remote Desktop Session Host servers and gateways. Contoso is also using Microsoft 365 and Azure for file management options at the user and file share levels.

Most of Contoso's employees are using Windows 10 devices, and they often work from remote locations. All the employees are using Microsoft 365 apps. Users from different departments are using different applications that require multiple images to be created. The Contoso IT director knows that image management is time consuming and requires management of the applications and Windows updates for each image.

Contoso is considering using the new Microsoft application delivery technology, MSIX app attach, to separate applications from primary images. As a senior administrator, you've been asked to adopt the application delivery method and to use MSIX app attach in your Azure Virtual Desktop environment.

Learning objectives

At the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of MSIX and MSIX app attach.
  • Deploy MSIX app attach.
  • Transform existing applications by using the MSIX packaging tool.

Note

If you perform the exercise in this module, you might incur costs in your Azure subscription. To estimate the costs, see Azure Virtual Desktop pricing.

Prerequisites

To get the best learning experience from this module, you should have:

  • An Azure account with an active subscription
  • Intermediate-level experience with:
    • Server and client management concepts and tools.
    • Windows virtualization technologies, such as Remote Desktop Services.
    • Common Windows Server management tools.
    • Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies.
  • Beginner-level experience with Application deployment and Azure Virtual Desktop.
  • Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session, version 2004 or later.