MicrosoftHi Steve,
Thanks for the post, we have been very interested in AVD Hybrid and have been testing it since it was presented on Ignite 2025 and the public preview launched in March 2026.
In the official documentation it is mentioned that Windows Server is only supported when RDS CALs have Software Assurance (SA).
Are there any plans to offer this to customers without SA on their RDS CALs?
This requirement alone kills around 90% of our potential customer deployments since most of our customers have no SA on their RDS CALs or have recently purchased RDS CALs with Windows Server 2025 / 2022 without SA, so a relicensing to RDS User Subscription is not economically feasable.
There is also a AVD Hybrid User Licence Fee that it required on top of the RDS CALs, could this be integrated into the AVD Hybrid User License so that SA is not required?
