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Mastering Windows 365

You're reading from Mastering Windows 365 The ultimate guide to designing, delivering, and managing architectures for Windows 365 Cloud PCs

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637966

Length 458 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

Operating Systems

Authors (3):

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Morten Pedholt

Sandeep Patnaik

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Understanding the Basics of Windows 365

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Windows 365 FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Implementing and Managing Cloud PCs

4. Chapter 2: Architecture

5. Chapter 3: Deploying Cloud PCs

6. Chapter 4: Managing Cloud PCs

7. Part 3: Accessing, Securing, and Analyzing Cloud PCs

8. Chapter 5: Accessing Cloud PCs

9. Chapter 6: Securing Cloud PCs

10. Chapter 7: Analyzing, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Cloud PCs

11. Part 4: Extending Windows 365 with Partner Solutions

12. Chapter 8: Windows 365 Partner Solutions

13. Chapter 9: Community Experts Hall of Fame

14. Index

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In this part of the chapter, we will take the liberty of sharing some technical information at a level that is different from the rest of the chapter. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy geeking out in this section. The Windows 365 experience can be greatly enhanced with the appropriate hardware configuration. Windows 365 connections use RDP. RDP uses the following codecs:

Wavelet/Calista Progressive Codec: Primarily used for image encoding.
Clear Codec Run-Length Encoding (based on NSCodec): Specifically designed for text encoding.
AVC444/H.264: A fullscreen codec that takes advantage of hardware decoding and encoding when available. Commonly utilized with thin clients.
AVC420/H.264: A variant of the preceding codec optimized for video playback regions with reduced color space. Used in conjunction with Wavelet and Clear Codec.
RDP: Used for the rest of the encoding tasks.

Furthermore, RDP incorporates different profiles, which...

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Authors (3)

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Christiaan Brinkhoff works as a Principal Program Manager and Community Director for Windows 365 and AVD at Microsoft, in his role at Microsoft, he works on features such as Windows 11, Windows 365 app, Switch and Boot. Christiaan is also an Author (3 books) and Inventor (3 patents). His mission is to drive innovation while bringing Windows 365, Windows, and Microsoft Intune closer together, drive community efforts around virtualization to empower Microsoft customers in leveraging new cloud virtualization scenarios. Christiaan joined Microsoft in 2018 as part of the FSLogix acquisition. He has also been rewarded with the Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, and VMware vExpert community achievements - for his continued support in the EUC community.

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Morten Pedholt

Morten Pedholt

Morten works as a Cloud Architect for a consultant company in Denmark where he advises and implements Microsoft virtual desktop solutions to customers around the world, Morten started his journey as a consultant over 8 years ago where he started with managing client devices but quickly found a passion for virtual device management. Today Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop are the main areas that are being focused on alongside Microsoft Intune. Based on all the community activities Morten has done in the past years, he got rewarded with the Microsoft MVP award in the category of Windows 365 in March 2022.

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Sandeep Patnaik

Sandeep Patnaik

Sandeep is a virtualization veteran with nearly two decades of experience in the industry. He has shipped multiple billion-dollar products and cloud services for Microsoft to a global user base including Windows, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Windows 365. His contributions have earned him multiple patents in this field. Currently, he leads a stellar team that is responsible for building the product strategy for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop services and shaping the future of end-user experiences for these services.

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