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What is RDP Shortpath for AVD Public Networks and How to Use It

Posted on by Travis Roberts
AVD

This is a follow up to my previous video on RDP Shortpath for Private networks.  A low Round Trip Time (RTT) is required for a good user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop.  RDP Shortpath for Public Networks in AVD improves the connection between the client and session host.  Performance is improved by using UDP and a direct connection over the public internet. In this video, we go over the requirements and considerations of RDP Shortpath for public networks. 

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What is RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks and How to Use It

Posted on by Travis Roberts
AVD

A low Round Trip Time (RTT) is required for a good user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop.  With RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks, we can leverage existing connections between the client network and Azure to keep the RTT latency low.  But this feature is not enabled by default.  In this video, we go over connectivity between the client and an AVD Session Host.  Then we review how we can use RDP Shortpath for AVD Managed Networks to direct traffic over existing private WAN connections between the client and Session Hosts.

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How to Use Azure DNS Private Resolver and Outbound Endpoints

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Azure DNS

This video goes over how to use an Azure DNS Private Resolver and Outbound Endpoints with Azure DNS Forwarding Rulesets.  These two services allow us to resolve on-premises host names from Azure clients.  We no longer need to deploy DNS servers in Azure to bridge on-premises and Windows DNS with Azure DNS.  We can leverage the Azure DNS Private Resolver PaaS service to handle DNS lookups for Azure.

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How to Use Azure DNS Private Resolver and Inbound Endpoints

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Azure DNS Reslover

This video goes over how to use an Azure DNS Private Resolver and Inbound Endpoints with Azure Private DNS zones.  These two services allow us to resolve private endpoints from an on-premises server.  We no longer need to deploy DNS servers in Azure to bridge on-premises and Windows DNS with Azure DNS.  We can leverage the Azure DNS Private Resolver PaaS service to handle DNS lookups for Azure.

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Private Endpoints and DNS Part Deux: Azure Private DNS Zones

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This is a second video on Azure Private Endpoints and DNS.  Previously, we reviewed options for DNS name resolution with Private Endpoint that included a forward lookup zone for the privatelink.file.windows.core.net zone. However, that option required manually adding hosts to the DNS zone.  This video reviews a hub-and-spoke configuration leveraging a forwarder server in Azure and conditional forwarding in Windows DNS.  Although slightly more complicated, this option does not require manually adding hosts to the DNS lookup zone.

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Private Endpoints with Azure Storage File Shares

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Azure services are publicly available over the internet by default.  That works for many services, but sometimes we need to limit access to internal networks only.  Private Endpoints provide a local, internal connection to resources in Azure.  It does this by adding a virtual NIC to a subnet.  From there, the NIC gets a private IP address where it can be accessed from the internal network.  This video goes over the configuration options to create a new storage account with an Azure File Share Private Endpoint as well as update an existing storage account with a private endpoint.

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Private Endpoints and DNS in Azure

Posted on by Travis Roberts
Private Endpoint

Private Endpoints in Azure provide a secure way to access resources over the private, internal network.  But the options for configuring DNS for Private Endpoints is not as straight forward.  This video goes over the options available for DNS with Private Endpoints.  We start by crating a storage account with a Private Endpoint, the review the default DNS configuration.  We look at The WireServer and how it can be used with a Conditional Forwarder as well as using Forward Lookup Zones for name resolution.

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