Public preview: FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs for Azure Virtual Desktop

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Published

Dec 2, 2021

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • December 2021
    Preview

Product

Azure Virtual Desktop

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Virtual desktop infrastructure

Description

For customers trying to reduce cost, it’s now possible to deploy a pooled environment using Azure AD-joined Windows 10/11 Enterprise multi-session VMs:

  • FSLogix user profiles are now supported with Azure AD-joined VMs.
  • Optimize costs by deploying a pooled environment for Azure AD-joined VMs.
  • Simplify deployment and enhanced management with Intune.
  • Removes the need to have access to a domain controller from the session host VM and network share.

You can now store FSLogix user profiles on Azure Files and access them from Azure-AD joined VMs. This functionality currently requires users to have hybrid identities managed in Active Directory. 

Learn more.