AZ-140 ep17 | How To Protect Yourself | Disaster Recovery 

I like your DR approach for pooled VMs : - Cloud Cache with secondary File share - Shared Image Galery

Another great video. Ya know, if Japan is just plain gone. Or if the eastern US is just plain gone, I'm not sure if I'm gonna be going in to work that day. Even if my charred remains aren't in one of those smoking craters, maybe there's more pressing issues at hand than work...

Thanks Dean. It all made a lot of sense. Will get back to it with any doubts once I apply these practices.

I'm not sure if you'd find this interesting in this context, but I had deployed fslogix using a file server. But this was via 2019 RDS collection on a local 2019 file server via share. Open go answer any questions I can.

Excellent work Dean.

I like the idea of building out additional hosts in the paired Azure Region (I tend to use UK South, so DR would be UK West) and joining them to the same host pool as the production hosts. It seems simple to administer (no need to duplicate desktop/app groups) and for users to understand (i.e. no difference to them regardless of the region the hosts are in). I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I don't see what additional protection you're giving yourself by running your DR hosts in a separate host pool. The metadata is (according to the portal) stored in the "geography associated with" the primary region, not the primary region itself, so that would still be available. The Workspace is built in a particular region, but I assume that's the metadata storage location as you mentioned you could use the same Workspace for your DR desktop/app groups anyway. Thanks for the videos! Really clear, engaging and informative. I'm taking AZ-140 next week and feeling pretty confident!

Once the DR activities are done, I would like to delete all my pooled VM's in DR region. We have planned to perform the quarterly patching ( instead of monthly) activity for that Golden image which anyway replicates to DR region as well. But the doubt is what is the max number of times that I could keep doing the sysprep on the Golden image?

Hi Dean, your video packed with so much useful info, I had to watch it multiple times to fully get it, good work! One quick question though, @14:30, how did you get session hosts from two different regions showing up as different icon in the same Workspace? As the App Groups give you icons, I assume they are from two different App Groups. The only way I can think of is that, you need to create one workspace with two separate App Groups within the same region, (in fact, I believe workspace and App Group has to be in the same region), then in one of the App Group you'd have host pool in regionA and another App Group you'd have host pool in regionB, right? Thanks Shengsheng

Hi Dean, thank you for another fantastic episode !! I have a question, we are only use Personal host pool, and using ASR to replicate them to a secondary region, @11:30, you mentioned Real disaster, where your entire primary region is wiped out, in that case, the replicated personal host pool session host cannot be joined to the original host pool, how do we protect from this kind of DR scenario? Should we create a standby personal host pool in the secondary region, and manually join the replicated session host to that pool, would the old Registration key work with the new standby pool? Thanks Desheng

Can you restore VHD profiles to a new pool in a different region, using azure backup?

Also, how can I ensure that app groups and it's assignments for the host pools in my primary region are always in sync with app groups and it's assignments for it's respective host pools in my DR region?

Hello Dean, love the series. I'm using file servers instead of azure files, more so because the environments I'm managing are smaller and the cost break down of azure files is confusing. Seems to be about double than using file server attached storage ?

How works cloud cache synchronization between shared files?