A Leading Indian Multinational Conglomerate Undergoes Seamless AVD Migration and Improved User Experience

Client Profile

The client is one of India’s leading conglomerates with their presence in several industries such as mining services, airports, solar manufacturing, roads, metro, rail, defense, aerospace, and many more. They aim to enrich lives and contribute to the nation’s growth through infrastructure and sustainable creations.

Challenges

• The client had a large-scale on-premises setup with Citrix VDI deployment, but they wanted a simple yet reliable cloud platform.
• They required different accessibility provisions for their 9 distinct user profiles across departments such as marketing, finance, and others.
• This was quite essential as the client wanted to provide secure and effortless access to users when needed, especially to employees working remotely.
• They did not want a generic or shared domain URL for their brand.
• The client struggled with accessibility issues for remote and third-party users. This was mainly due to the conditional access policy of their earlier on-premises solution.

Anunta’s Solution

• The Anunta team analyzed the client’s existing on-premises system and recommended the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) implementation. This cloud-based platform encouraged automation and reduced complexity across different users, such as employees, vendors, and partners. All these features helped solve the client’s challenges, and hence AVD was implemented for them.  
• With AVD, the client’s employees can access their virtual devices securely and from anywhere. Users benefited from a centralized system that simplified application management, device management, updated security policies, and compliance.  
• Besides, they took advantage of built-in security features such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), Azure Active Directory integration, and reduced the threat of data loss. Simultaneously, this solution was recommended as it is cost-effective and helped reduce maintenance costs.  
• Anunta’s AVD experts eliminated the gaps involved in the migration with a comprehensive Day 0 to Day 2 planning and execution. This reduced downtime during the migration process, and users suffered through minimal changes.  
• The team configured an Azure frontdoor to route users to the client’s customized URL. This customized URL was created for quick accessibility to users and improved brand alignment.  
• Anunta’s experts assisted the client’s teams when they experienced conditional access issues post-deployment. After onboarding, remote employees used to struggle with access, but the team configured exceptions for AVD-related services, which resolved this issue.  
• 100+ users successfully migrated, and interns were provided with secure access to quickly complete the onboarding process with low latency. 

Key Benefits

• Implementation of AVD ensured powerful security during tough times.  
• The seamless AVD deployment encouraged business continuity.  
• It was convenient for the client to onboard new employees and enhance the user experience.  
• The client witnessed a surge in its performance. 
• Ease of working with the Microsoft ecosystem and integrations. 
• 100+ Users were successfully migrated during the crucial phase.