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Book SynopsisDino Esposito is CTO and co-founder of Crionet, a company that provides innovative software and technology to professional sports organizations. A 16-time Microsoft MVP, he has authored 20+ books, including Introducing Machine Learning; and the Microsoft Press best-seller Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. Francesco Esposito holds a degree in Mathematics, is the co-author of Introducing Machine Learning, and lives suspended between the depth of advanced mathematics and the intrigue of data science. He currently serves as the Head of Engineering and Data at Crionet. As an entrepreneur he founded Youbiquitous, a data analysis and software factory, and KBMS Data Force, a startup in Digital Therapy and intelligent healthcare.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Artificially Intelligent Software CHAPTER 2 An Architectural Perspective of ML.NET CHAPTER 3 The Foundation of ML.NET CHAPTER 4 Prediction Tasks CHAPTER 5 Classification Tasks CHAPTER 6 Clustering Tasks CHAPTER 7 Anomaly Detection Tasks CHAPTER 8 Forecasting Tasks CHAPTER 9 Recommendation Tasks CHAPTER 10 Image Classification Tasks CHAPTER 11 Overview of Neural Networks CHAPTER 12 A Neural Network to Recognize Passports APPENDIX A Model Explainability

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Book SynopsisBarnaby describes how to use the new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications.Table of ContentsA table of contents is not available for this title.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Getting Started with Xomega.- Chapter 2: Building Out a List View.- Chapter 3: Configuring Search Criteria.- Chapter 4: Building Out a Details View.- Chapter 5: Implementing Security.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction to Government Modernization.- Chapter 2: Overview of Microsoft Power Platform.- Chapter 3: Planning a Government Low-Code Strategy.- Chapter 4: Building End-to-End Solutions.- Chapter?5: ??Integrating AI and Co-Pilot.- Chapter 6: Deployment & Governance.- Chapter 7: Facilitating Government Modernization through Use Cases.- Chapter 8: Best Practices & Frameworks.- Chapter 9: The Road Ahead.- Chapter 10: Resources & Templates.- Chapter 11: Azure AI + AI Builder High-Level AI Model Development.- Chapter 12: Copilot Studio In-Depth Tutorial – Bots, Prompts & Custom Skills.- Chapter 13: Low-Code + Pro-Code Fusion – When to Extend with Azure Functions.- Chapter 14: Secure External API Integrations in Government Applications.- Chapter 15: Data Governance & Sovereignty with Dataverse and Azure.- Chapter 16: Making Power Platform Solutions Run Better.- Chapter 17: Monitoring & Logging with Azure Monitor and Power Platform Admin Center.- Chapter 18: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning.- Chapter 19: The Future of Digital Government – Trends to Watch.- Chapter 20: Developing a Culture of Low-Code Innovation in Government Sector.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: The AI Landscape and Its Evolving Impact.- Chapter 2: Challenges and Gaps in Current AI Adoption.- Chapter 3: Understanding Agency - what makes Agentic AI a teammate, not a tool - Chapter 4: Why Agentic Capabilities Outperform Traditional AI.- Chapter 5: Microsoft’s AI Stack and Agentic Evolution.- Chapter 6: Governing Agentic AI – Principles, Practices, and Playbooks? - Chapter 7: Embracing the Agentic Workforce.- Chapter 8: Beyond the Horizon.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introducing Microservices.- Chapter 2: Other Software Patterns.- Chapter 3: Searching for Microservices.- Chapter 4: ASP.NET is a Great Place for Microservices.- Chapter 5: Synchronous Communication with Microservices.- Chapter 6: Asynchronous Microservice Messaging.- Chapter 7: Decentralizing Data.- Chapter 8: Testing Microservices.- Chapter 9: Deploying Microservices.- Chapter 10: Healthy Microservices.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction to Microsoft Loop: Understanding the Platform.- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Microsoft Loop.- Chapter 3: Co-creation and managing Loop components.- Chapter 4: Real-time collaboration using Loop.- Chapter 5: Integrating Loop with Microsoft 365 Apps.- Chapter 6: Exploring advanced Features and Customizations.- Chapter 7: Best Practices for Team Collaboration.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction to Deep Learning and GPU Acceleration.- 2 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with GPU Optimization.- 3 Sequence Models and Recurrent Networks.- 4 Generative Models and integration with Microsoft Copilots.- 5 Deployment on Edge Devices.- 6 Scaling and Distributed Training.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Delegates.- Chapter 2: Events.- Chapter 3: Lambda Expressions.- Chapter 4: Bonus.- Appendix A: What's Next?.- Appendix B: Author's Other Books.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Origins and Initial Concept.- Chapter 2: Architecture.- Chapter 3: The Build System.- Chapter 4: Being Part of the .NET Ecosystem.- Chapter 5: Interfacing with the Outside World.- Chapter 6: An IoT Embedded Device.- Chapter 7: Nano Devices Big-Time Connectivity.- Chapter 8: Testing for Embedded Success.- Chapter 9: Advanced Coding Topics.- Chapter 10: Beyond Connectivity - MCP in Embedded Devices.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I: Getting Started.- Chapter 1: Introduction to Entity Framework.- Chapter 2: Working with an Existing Database.-  Chapter 3: Entity Framework: Code_First Database Interaction.- Part II: Building the Data Solution.- Chapter 4: Models and the Data Context.- Chapter 5: Constraints, Keys, and Relationships.- Chapter 6: Data Access (Create, Read, Update, Delete).- Chapter 7: Stored Procedures, Views, and Functions.- Chapter 8: Sorting, Filtering, and Paging.- Part III: Enhancing the Data Solution.- Chapter 9: Efficient Queries Using LINQ and Projections.- Chapter 10: Encryption of Data.- Chapter 11: Repository and Unit of Work Patterns.- Chapter 12: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Mocking.- Part IV: Modern Entity Framework.- Chapter 13: Modern Deployments.- Chapter 14: New Features in EFCore 7, 8, 9, and 10.- Part V: Recipes for Success.- Appendix A: Troubleshooting.- Appendix B: Commands for Migrations.

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Book SynopsisJazz up your iPhone and iPad apps with some slick graphics and animation-and keep users from looking elsewhere. This short and concise cookbook shows developers with even little Cocoa programming experience how to create impressive graphics and animation effects with relatively easy coding.

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Book SynopsisBeginning-Intermediate user levelTable of Contents​Chapter 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code Chapter Goal: Understand the basics on Infrastructure as Code paradigm and known about its advantages, principles and tools. Understand the need to convert infrastructure into code. No of pages: 5 Sub -Topics 1. Understanding Configuration Management 2. Understanding Infrastructure as code 3. Principles of Infrastructure as code 4. Benefits and applicability for cloud environments Chapter 2: Azure and Terraform Chapter Goal: Get an overview of Azure as enterprise cloud provider with different paradigm like IaaS, PaaS. Different ways to provision resources in Azure. How Terraform fits within the Azure Landscape and how it can be used to provision Azure resources. Understand the high-level architecture and workflow using Terraform No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics 1. Overview of Azure cloud 2. Overview of Terraform configuration management 3. Terraform workflow for provisioning and de-provisioning of resources 4. Terraform architecture – providers, plugins, resources, repositories Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform Chapter Goal: Getting hand dirty with Terraform, writing multiple terraform scripts exploring different concepts of Terraform. No of pages: 45 Sub - Topics: 1. Understand Terraform CLI and using various options 2. State Management in Terraform 3. using Resources, providers, outputs 4. Terraform Data types 5. Dependency graphs in Terraform scripts Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform Chapter Goal: Understanding the advance features of Terraform both from component as well at script level. Write advance Terraform scripts for conditional deployments, multiple resource creation using loops. No of pages: 45 Sub - Topics: 1. Backend, state and workspace management in Terraform 2. dynamic provisioning of resources 3. loops, conditional statements – for, for-each, if 4. using Terraform functions – string, collection, encoding, file Chapter 5: Writing Reusable Modules in Terraform Chapter Goal: Writing reusable Terraform scripts using modules, storing modules in repositories and consuming them in multiple scripts. No of pages: 25 1. Basic of Modules, child and parent modules 2. Passing parameters and getting output from modules 3. Using modules from multiple scripts. Chapter 6: Writing Secure Scripts with Terraform Chapter Goal: Management and administration of sensitive data, secrets and passwords within Terraform code. Usage of Key vaults for storing of secrets. No of pages: 20 1. Secure storage of credentials and sensitive information 2. Usage of Managed Identities, certificates, service principles to connect to Azure 3. Storing secrets in Azure Key vaultChapter 7: Repos, Versioning, CI/CD pipelines for Terraform Chapter Goal: Overview of storing and versioning of Terraform scripts such that each version can be used in isolation without conflicting with others. Using Terraform CLI in Azure DevOps pipelines to automate the process of deployment of Azure Resources. No of pages: 20 1. Storing Terraform scripts in Azure DevOps 2. Versioning of Terraform modules 3. CICD pipelines for deploying resources on Azure using Terraform Chapter 8: Writing Unit and Integration Tests for Terraform Chapter Goal: Testing of Terraform scripts using TerraTest utility. Understanding principles of unit and integrating testing alongside implementing them No of pages: 20 1. Exploring TerraTest and terra-lint 2. Understanding Unit testing and writing unit tests for Terraform scripts 3. Understanding Integration testing and writing Integration tests for Terraform scripts Chapter 9: Terraform Best Practices Chapter Goal: Understanding the best practices of authoring, deploying and managing Terraform scripts in general and in Azure No of pages: 10 1. Understanding Terraform Folder structure and deployment structure 2. Writing testable Terraform scripts 3. Writing Maintainable code – usage of variables, no hard-coding etc

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Book SynopsisDesign and build the newdesktop service from Microsoft. This book offers a modern framework, design methodology, and best practices of design and deployment for virtual apps and desktops.Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) which is simple to deploy, accessible from any device, easy to manage, and secure. The book starts with AVD essentials and its critical features, followed by the planning and method of preparing for AVD. You will go through defining the requirements and assessing by setting the AVD application baseline, network requirements, and security requirements. Next, you will learn how to design and deploy the core infrastructure of Microsoft AVD to understand its Access Layer, Control Layer, Resource Layer, Hosting Layer, and User Layer. You will also learn how to design the desktop and Host Pool of AVD. And you will learn the modern way to manage and secure AVD components. After reading this book, you will havetheright blend of knowledge Table of ContentsChapter 1: Microsoft WVD Design Essentials· WVD Essentials · Key foundations of WVD · Terminology of WVD Chapter 2: Preforming Assessment and requirements gathering of Microsoft WVD · Preforming due diligences · Classifying the WVD use cases. · Defining WVD Application baseline. · Defining WVD Network requirements. · Defining WVD Security requirements. Chapter 3: Designing Core Infrastructure of Microsoft WVD · Designing WVD Compute and storage. · Designing WVD Network. · Designing WVD Security requirements. · Designing WVD Access layer. · Designing WVD Control Layer. Chapter 4: Designing Desktop and RDHS Pool of Microsoft WVD · Designing WVD Resource Layer. · Designing WVD RDHS Pool. · Designing WVD Desktop Pool. · Designing WVD User Profile and Personalization Layer · Designing WVD Policy Layer. · Designing WVD Application delivery Layer. Chapter 5: Designing Monitoring and Security Components of Microsoft WVD · Designing WVD Operational Layer. · Designing WVD Monitoring layer. · Designing WVD Security Layer. · Designing WVD Migration Layer. · Designing WVD Automation Layer.

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Book SynopsisMaster Excel in less than two weeks with this unique project-based book! Let's face it, we all master skills in our own way, but building a soup-to-nuts project is one of the best ways to make learning stick and get up to speed quickly. Whether you are just getting started with Excel or are an experienced user, this book will elevate your knowledge and skills. For a beginner, the micro examples in each chapter will warm you up before you dive into the projects. For experienced users, the projects, especially those with table setup considerations, will help you become more creative in your interactions with Excel. Readers will benefit from building eight unique projects, each covering a different topic, including a word game, a food nutrition ranking, a payroll (tax withholding) calculation, an encryption, a two-way table, a Kaplan-Meier analysis, a data analysis via a pivot table and the K-means Clustering data mining method. Through these projects, you will experience firsthand how Table of ContentsChapter 1: Master Excel through Projects Chapter 2: Food Nutrition Ranking Chapter 3: Payroll Calculation Chapter 4: Public and Private Key Cryptography Chapter 5: Two-Way Table and Chi-Square Test Chapter 6: Kaplan-Meier Analysis Chapter 7: PivotTable Data Analysis Chapter 8: K-means Clustering and Iterative Calculation

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Book SynopsisImplement cloud security with Azure security tools, configurations and policies that address the needs of businesses and governments alike. This book introduces you to the most important security solutions available in Azure and provides you with step-by-step guidance to effectively set up security and deploy an application on top of Azure platform services, as well as on top of Azure infrastructure.Author Pushpa Herath begins by teaching you the fundamentals of Azure security. An easy to follow exploration of management groups, subscriptions, management locks and Azure policies further elaborate the concepts underlying Azure cloud security. Next, you will learn about Azure Active Directory (AAD) and the utilization of AAD in application and infrastructure security. Essential aspects of maintaining secure application keys and certificates are further explained in the context of Azure Key Vault. New application security implementations such as Azure configuratTable of ContentsChapter 1: Understanding the Importance of Data/Application Security Chapter Goal: Give general overview on importance of data security No of pages: 5 Sub -Topics 1. Introduction to security 2. Introduction to Azure security fundamentals Chapter 2: Overview of Basic Azure Security Components Chapter Goal: Introduction to various security components in Azure and how to utilize them. No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics 1. Introduction to Azure Management groups and subscriptions 2. Azure Management locks 3. Introduction to Azure policies Chapter 3: Introduction to Azure Active Directory Chapter Goal: Lessons to provide hand-on guidance on user access control of the organization using Azure Active Directory. No of pages : 30 Sub - Topics: 1. Adding users and groups to the AD 2. Manage External Identities 3. Enable two factor authentications 4. Roles and Administrative units in Azure AD 5. Managing Enterprise applications 6. Introduction to AD devices 7. Azure AD app registration 8. Adding custom domains Chapter 4: Working with Azure Key vault Chapter Goal: Step by step guidance to setting up and using azure key vault to achieve several security requirements in the organization. No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics: 1. Setting up Key vault 2. Key vault access control 3. Using KV to save Keys 4. Using KV to secure Secrets 5. Using KV to keep certificates 6. Key vault access policies 7. KV networking and security Chapter 5: Ensure Azure Application security Chapter Goal: Step by step guidance to setting up various security components which helps to secure application hosted in Azure No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics: 1. Keep configurations in central location using Azure Configuration 2. Authentication and authorization in Azure App Service 3. How to secure application with web application firewall in Azure 4. Application Security groups Chapter 6: Ensure Data Security with Azure Storages Chapter Goal: Overview on how data storage security works in Azure No of pages: 30 Sub - Topics: 1. Setting up azure storage 2. Azure storage encryption 3. Azure defender for azure storage Chapter 7: Ensure Security using Azure Virtual Networks Chapter Goal: Step by step guide on how to setup virtual networks to enhance the security of the data and infrastructure. No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics: 1. Network security groups 2. Azure VPN gateways 3. Azure Load balancer 4. Azure Subnets Chapter 8: Working with Azure Application Gateway Chapter Goal: Hands on lessons on implementing Azure Application gateway to enhance the security of the data Sub - Topics: 1. Setting up Azure Application gateway 2. Secure Web App using App gateway 3. Secure Virtual Machine using App gateway Chapter 9: Securing data with Azure Firewall Chapter Goal: Step by step guidance to setting up azure firewall and configure it to secure data No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics: 1. Setting up Azure Firewall 2. Setting up policies 3. Setting up rules Chapter 10: Creating App Service Environment to enhance security Chapter Goal: Step by step guidance to setting up App service environment and using it to secure applications No of pages: 50 Sub - Topics: 1. Setting up Azure Application service environment 2. Deploy applications to app service environment Chapter 11: Secure Infrastructures in Azure Chapter Goal: Explains different security features available with few of the azure resources No of pages: 30 Sub - Topics: 1. Secure Azure Virtual machine using Bastian 2. Secure Azure Virtual machine using encrypted firewall rules 3. Azure SQL server security components

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Book SynopsisBroaden your developer experience by learning how to use gRPC and ASP.NET Core together on the Microsoft's developer framework, .NET 6 and discover a new way of developing APIs with gRPC. Beginning gRPC with ASP.NET Core6is your guide to quickly and efficiently getting down to the business of building gRPC applications in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. Readers will dive in and build an application using gRPC and the latest technologies such Angular and ASP.NET Core Razor Pages.This book will teach you how to set up an efficient application using industry best practices such as security, monitoring, logging, and more. You will do this by performing Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on a SQL Server database with Entity Framework Core. From there you will build web applications using Angular and ASP.NET Core Razor pages combined with gRPC APIs. After reading the book, you'll be able to take advantage of the full range of developer opportunities with gRPC, and come awayTable of ContentsPart I: Getting Started with .NET 6 Chapter 1: Welcome to Modern .NET Chapter 2: Introducing ASP.NET Core 6Part II: gRPC fundamentalsChapter 3 : Understanding the gRPC Specification Chapter 4: Protbufs Chapter 5: Creating an ASP.NET Core gRPC Application Chapter 6: API Versioning Part III: gRPC and ASP.NET Core Chapter 7: Create a gRPC Client Chapter 8: From WCF to gRPC Chapter 9: Import and Display Data with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Hosted Services, and gRPC Chapter 10: The gRPC-web Specification Chapter 11: Create a gRPC-web service from a gRPC-service with ASP.NET Core Part IV: gRPC-web and ASP.NET Core Chapter 12: Import and Display Data with Angular 12 and gRPC-webPart V: Security Chapter 13: Secure your Application with OpenId Connect

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Book SynopsisModernize your business to make it more agile using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud desktop virtualization platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps. This book will help you will help you to understand designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop environment for enterprise and prepare to take the Microsoft AZ-140 certification exam. The book starts with an introduction to Azure Virtual Desktop and its design architecture. You will learn designing Azure Virtual desktop including user identities and profiles. Additionally, you will learn how to implement network for Azure Virtual desktop. Creation and configuration of host pools and session hosts is covered with all steps so that you can understand all options and select appropriate configuration for enterprise deployment. You will also go through session host images creation process and managing the image with image gallery and possible automation oTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Azure Virtual Desktop Introduction What is Azure Virtual Desktop? Chapter 2: Design the Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture · assess existing physical and virtual desktop environments · assess network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop · recommend an operating system for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation · plan and configure name resolution for Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) · plan a host pools architecture · recommend resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups · configure a location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata · calculate and recommend a configuration for performance requirements · calculate and recommend a configuration for Azure Virtual Machine capacity requirements Chapter 3: Design for user identities and profiles · select an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop based on requirements · recommend an appropriate storage solution (including Azure NetApp Files versus Azure Files) · plan for Azure Virtual Desktop client deployment · plan for user profiles · recommend a solution for network connectivity · plan for Azure AD Connect for user identities Chapter 4: Implement and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop · implement Azure virtual network connectivity · manage connectivity to the internet and on-premises networks · implement and manage network security · manage Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts by using Azure Bastion · monitor and troubleshoot network connectivity Chapter 5: Implement and manage storage for Azure Virtual Desktop · configure storage for FSLogix components · configure storage accounts · configure disks · create file shares Chapter 6: Create and configure host pools and session hosts · create a host pool by using the Azure portal · automate creation of Azure Virtual Desktop host and host pools by using PowerShell, Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Azure Resource Manager templates · create a host pool based on Windows client or Windows Server session hosts · configure host pool settings · manage licensing for session hosts that run Windows client or Windows Server · assign users to host pools · apply OS and application updates to a running Azure Virtual Desktop host · apply security and compliance settings to session hosts Chapter 7: Create and manage session host images · create a gold image · modify a session host image · install language packs in Azure Virtual Desktop · deploy a session host by using a custom image · plan for image update and management · create and use a Shared Image Gallery · troubleshoot OS issues related to Azure Virtual Desktop Chapter 8: Manage access · plan and implement Azure roles and role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop · manage roles, groups and rights assignment on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts · configure user restrictions by using AD group policies and Azure policies Chapter 9: Manage security · plan and implement Conditional Access policies for connections to Azure Virtual Desktop · plan and implement multifactor authentication in Azure Virtual Desktop · manage security by using Azure Security Center · configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus for session hosts Chapter 10: Implement and manage FSLogix · plan for FSLogix · install and configure FSLogix · configure Profile Containers · configure Cloud Cache · migrate user profiles to FSLogix Chapter 11: Configure user experience settings · configure Universal Print · configure user settings through group policies and Endpoint Manager policies · configure persistent and non-persistent desktop environments · configure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) properties on a host pool · configure session timeout properties · troubleshoot user profile issues · troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop clients Chapter 12: Install and configure apps on a session host · configure dynamic application delivery by using MSIX App Attach · implement application masking · deploy an application as a RemoteApp · implement and manage OneDrive for Business for a multi-session environment · implement and manage Microsoft Teams AV Redirect · implement and manage browsers and internet access for Azure Virtual Desktop sessions · create and configure an application group · troubleshoot application issues related to Azure Virtual Desktop Chapter 13: Plan and implement business continuity and disaster recovery · plan and implement a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop · design a backup strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop · configure backup and restore for FSLogix user profiles, personal virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), and golden images Chapter 14: Automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks · configure automation for Azure Virtual Desktop · automate management of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions by using PowerShell and Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) · implement autoscaling in host pools Chapter 15: Monitor and manage performance and health · monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Monitor · monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Advisor · customize Azure Monitor workbooks for Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring · optimize session host capacity and performance · manage active sessions and application groups · monitor and optimize autoscaling results Chapter 16: Azure Virtual Desktop Automation AVD automation for create/delete hostpool / sessionhost AVD pooled advance autoscaling logic to start/stop/add new sessionhost in hostpool automatically based on CPU usage

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