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Enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop

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Chris_Mckitterick
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Nov 19, 2024
We’re excited to announce the public preview of enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop. Enhanced host pool management is a collection of features and capabilities designed to help ad...
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Nov 27, 2024

Is there any additional documentation on using Ephemeral OS disks?  I had a fairly successful deployment using multisession host pools with Ephemeral disks, it ran well from 2020 to 2023.  While it functioned well, it wasn't easy enough for the customer to manage and we replaced the session hosts with persistent disk VMs.

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    Feb 14, 2025

    Hi Joseph, we do not have any updates outside of the registration link in the blog post above. Ephemeral OS disks is still in a limited preview with Azure Virtual Desktop and will hopefully be entering a public preview in the coming months.