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Published Aug 19, 2021
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Hi everyone,
Please let me post the detailed instructions on how we can test Windows 11 in AVD.
Option 1 – Create an image
Navigate to the https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/microsoftwindowsdesktop.windows-11-preview?tab=Overview and subscribe and add the offer to your tenant
Create a VM
Generalize and prepare an image following the process outlined https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource#create-a-managed-image-in-the-portal
Follow https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/create-host-pools-azure-marketplace#begin-the-host-pool-setup-process steps to create a host pool
Option 2 – Manual registration
Navigate to the https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/microsoftwindowsdesktop.windows-11-preview?tab=Overview and subscribe and add the offer to your tenant
Create a VM using Windows 11 images as source
Navigate to Azure Virtual Desktop
Create a host pool without adding any VMs
Generate a registration key
Then add the VM created via the manual registration process follow the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9gb_tRW2bA starting at 4:58 to register your VM with the host pool.
Happy testing
Stefan