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Virtual App Delivery in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual App Delivery in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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This curriculum spans the technical breadth of a multi-phase virtual app delivery rollout, comparable to an enterprise advisory engagement that addresses architecture, packaging, security, and hybrid integration across on-premises and cloud environments.

Module 1: Architecture Design and Sizing for Virtual Application Delivery

  • Selecting between published applications and full desktop delivery based on user workload profiles and licensing constraints.
  • Calculating concurrent user density per host based on CPU, memory, and GPU requirements for resource-intensive applications.
  • Determining optimal hypervisor placement for session hosts considering NUMA topology and storage I/O latency.
  • Designing network segmentation for RDSH farms to isolate management, user, and file transfer traffic.
  • Choosing between persistent and non-persistent session hosts based on application compatibility and user personalization needs.
  • Integrating load balancing algorithms (e.g., least sessions, round-robin) with health checks for RDSH availability.

Module 2: Application Packaging and Compatibility Engineering

  • Resolving file and registry conflicts during application sequencing in App-V or MSIX by isolating shared dependencies.
  • Modifying application installers to support silent deployment and system-wide installation on multi-user OS instances.
  • Handling applications requiring kernel-mode drivers by evaluating virtualization compatibility and fallback to local execution.
  • Testing Win32 applications for multi-instance stability under Terminal Services User Mode (TSUM).
  • Implementing version control and rollback procedures for application package revisions in shared delivery environments.
  • Managing COM and DCOM registration conflicts in shared session hosts using isolation layers or redirection.

Module 3: Delivery Infrastructure Configuration and Optimization

  • Configuring RDSH role services including Connection Broker, Web Access, and Gateway with high availability using NLB or F5.
  • Tuning session timeout policies and disconnected session limits to balance resource reuse and user experience.
  • Implementing GPU passthrough or vGPU profiles for applications requiring DirectX or OpenGL rendering.
  • Optimizing display protocol settings (e.g., H.264 encoding, frame rate caps) based on WAN bandwidth constraints.
  • Deploying FSLogix profile containers with exclusion rules to reduce container size and login latency.
  • Integrating application delivery with identity providers using SAML or OIDC for conditional access enforcement.

Module 4: Security and Access Governance

  • Restricting application launch based on user group membership using Group Policy or Intune configuration.
  • Enforcing application control policies via AppLocker or WDAC to prevent unauthorized executable execution on RDSH.
  • Implementing Just Enough Administration (JEA) for delegated RDSH management without full domain admin rights.
  • Configuring TLS 1.2+ for all RDS components and disabling legacy protocols like RDP 5.x.
  • Isolating privileged administrative sessions using Remote Desktop Gateway with MFA enforcement.
  • Auditing application usage and session access through SIEM integration with Windows Event Forwarding.

Module 5: Storage and Profile Management Strategy

  • Selecting storage tier (SSD vs. HDD) and IOPS allocation for user profile and application layer repositories.
  • Designing FSLogix container placement with VHDX on SMB3 shares and configuring host caching policies.
  • Managing Office 365 caching in virtual environments using OneDrive redirection and exclusion from profile containers.
  • Implementing deduplication and compression on file servers hosting application layers without impacting performance.
  • Planning profile migration from legacy roaming profiles to containerized solutions with minimal user disruption.
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting profile bloat caused by uncontrolled cache or log file accumulation.

Module 6: Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting

  • Deploying synthetic transactions to simulate user logon and application launch for performance baselining.
  • Interpreting RDS-specific performance counters such as sessions per broker and license server availability.
  • Diagnosing display protocol latency using RDP diagnostics and correlating with network path analysis.
  • Identifying memory leaks in shared processes by monitoring per-session private bytes and handle counts.
  • Using ETW traces to isolate application startup delays in virtualized delivery stacks.
  • Establishing alert thresholds for session host CPU, memory, and page file usage to trigger proactive scaling.

Module 7: Scalability, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing multi-site RDS deployments with Connection Broker spanning availability zones for failover.
  • Automating host provisioning and decommissioning using PowerShell or Terraform based on session demand.
  • Replicating user profile stores across regions using Azure File Sync or DFS-R with conflict resolution policies.
  • Testing RDS Gateway failover with DNS TTL and client retry behavior under simulated outages.
  • Validating application license server redundancy and failover procedures to prevent service interruption.
  • Documenting recovery runbooks for RDS role restoration including certificate and configuration backup locations.

Module 8: Integration with Cloud and Hybrid Delivery Models

  • Evaluating Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) migration paths from on-premises RDS based on cost and feature parity.
  • Extending on-premises App-V infrastructure to Azure using shared content repositories over ExpressRoute.
  • Configuring hybrid join and conditional access policies for seamless access to virtual apps from unmanaged devices.
  • Implementing Azure AD Application Proxy for web-based apps alongside RDS-published Win32 applications.
  • Managing licensing compliance for Windows 10/11 Enterprise and RDS CALs in hybrid cloud scenarios.
  • Synchronizing on-premises GPOs with Intune policies to maintain consistent application and security settings.
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