Azure services

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Looking to set up Azure Virtual Desktop in your organisation?

Access our Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) expertise in one of two ways:

Deliver your project yourself with free ongoing expert advice

When you buy your Azure consumption through Compete366, receive the added benefit of ongoing expert AVD advice – whenever you need, at no extra cost.
We help your in-house IT Team on your AVD journey – with everything from architecture through to deployment, migration, security, resilience, scaling and cost-optimisation advice.

Think of us as one of the team.

Book a free, no obligation call with one of our Azure consultants

Let us deliver your AVD project for you for a one-off project fee

Want to use Microsoft AVD, but don’t have capacity or the skill-set in-house?

For a one-off fee our experts can deliver your AVD project for you, end to end.

Leaving you free to do what you do best.

Book a free, no obligation call with one of our Azure consultants

What is Azure Virtual Desktop?

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is Microsoft’s industry-leading virtual desktop service that runs in the cloud. It provides all the benefits you’d expect from a virtual desktop while offering the same tools and resources your employees already use.

Expert team of Azure Virtual Desktop Consultants

Our expert team of consultants have successfully delivered many Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) projects, to maximise impact and minimise costs for our clients.

Microsoft has recognised our expertise through the Infrastructure (Azure) Solution Partner designation and through the Advanced Specialisation in Azure Virtual desktop.

Microsoft states ”The Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialisation validates a partner’s deep expertise in deploying and scaling virtualized desktops and applications on Azure using Azure Virtual Desktop.” We are one of a handful of UK partners serving the SMB market to have obtained this.

AVD hassle-free project services

We work with you to manage the implementation of Azure Virtual Desktop with minimum business disruption.

Key project tasks include:

Who in your organisation do you want to provide with an Azure Virtual Desktop and what are their needs?

  • Azure AD
  • Azure subscription
  • Domain Controller synced with Azure AD
  • Virtual network for the session hosts
  • Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts
  • FSLogix for user profile containers
  • Central storage location for the FSLogix user profile disks

We deploy a normal Azure VM and use this to create the image for your Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts.

We will work with you to decide how much computing power to allocate to each Azure Virtual Desktop. This will depend on what the users’ workloads require.

Host pools are a collection of one or more identical virtual machines (Session Hosts) within the Azure AVD environment.

Assigning users to the app so that they can sign into the AVD service to access their virtual desktop session.

We will help you in balancing latency and speed based on your specific requirements and locations.

We work with you to make sure you have the correct AVD licences for your rollout.

After AVD is deployed, our priority is to test performance for your users. We will help to refine this based on user density per processor and cost to ensure the performance you require.

Our customer promise

If you sign up with Compete366, we guarantee that you’ll pay the same for your Azure consumption as when you subscribe directly with Microsoft, but with the added benefit of free ongoing expert AVD advice from our dedicated team of experienced technical consultants.

What our customers say

“We had great support from the Compete366 AVD expert, who was really helpful, and guided me through options to tackle issues that arose.”

“The great thing about our AVD set up is that we have a custom set up for each project which Compete366 showed me how to do. And with the scalability and flexibility of AVD – we can meet clients’ expectations and get project users up and running more quickly.”

Amir Dangol, Senior IT Manager – Integrity

“From the outset we were impressed with the response from our consultant from Compete366 who guided us through the process of setting up Azure Virtual Desktop, and the implementation went very well.”

Dave Burgess, IT Support Analyst, Optimise Media

Speak to one of our Azure Expert Consultants

Contact us to set up AVD in your organisation

Access our Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) expertise in one of two ways:

We help you deliver

Let us help you deliver your Azure Virtual Desktop project and get free ongoing expert advice.

– OR –

We deliver for you

We’ll take the strain and deliver your Azure Virtual Desktop project for you for a one-off project fee.

Contact our Microsoft specialists

Phone or email us to find out more – or book a free, no-obligation call with our technical consultants using the contact form.

“It’s great to work with the Compete366 team, the team members are really knowledgeable, helpful and responsive. No question is too difficult for them. They have really helped us to manage our Azure costs and ensure we have the right environment. When we bring a new customer on-board we can scale up immediately via the Azure portal and quickly make environments available to our customers.”

“We also find that there’s never a heavy sales pitch from them – they are technically focused and recommend what’s right for us.”

Paul Coyne, Rusada

“We had great support from the Compete366 AVD expert, who was really helpful, and guided me through options to tackle issues that arose.”

“The great thing about our AVD set up is that we have a custom set up for each project which Compete366 showed me how to do. And with the scalability and flexibility of AVD – we can meet clients’ expectations and get project users up and running more quickly.”

Amir Dangol, Senior IT Manager, Integrity

“We were immediately impressed with the advice that the Compete366 specialists in Azure Architecture were able to provide. This was all new to us and we really needed some external expertise that we could use to get our questions answered. The beauty of working with Compete366 is that we transferred our Azure consumption to them, and at the same time received all of their advice and guidance free of charge.”

Tim Entwistle, Head of Software Development, Herrco

“Working with Compete366 has been like extending our own team – they are extremely and easy to work with. Right from the outset, it was clear what was on offer – everything was presented to us in a straightforward and uncomplicated way. They also provided just the right level of challenge to our developers and saved us time and money by suggesting better ways to implement our infrastructure.”

Oliver Mackereth, Project Director, Hanse

“Compete366 were able to help us leverage some useful contacts in Microsoft. We really value the expert advice and guidance that they have offered us in setting up a highly scalable infrastructure. We are also setting in place a regular monthly meeting which will allow us to further refine our architecture and ensure we keep on track as our requirements grow and change.”

Matt Brocklehurst, Technical Director - AWOL Adventure

“I have been delighted with the migration, where my team worked very hard, supported by expert advice from Compete366, and achieved everything in the timescale we had set out. Compete 366 made sure that we didn’t make any expensive mistakes, and guided us through the process”

Darrell Cann, Managing Director, APEX
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