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Add guest user to Windows Virtual Desktop app pool
ghonyme : Yes, unfortunately we do not support guest users yet in Windows Virtual Desktops. Users must be sourced from the Azure AD that you specify for your Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.
Microsoftghonyme : Yes, unfortunately we do not support guest users yet in Windows Virtual Desktops. Users must be sourced from the Azure AD that you specify for your Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.
I have the same question and in need to have this feature. I was under the impression that, if a guest user can be added to an application according to the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/add-users-administrator#add-guest-users-to-an-application then, the feature to add a guest user to application group in a host pool in WVD was also supported.
Our objective is to allow guest users (who are clients) to connect to VM in WVD so that they can use our software (already installed in VM) through Excel add-in. In this way, they can sign in to Excel with their Office 365 credentials (related to their Office 365 license).
If we add a guest user to our Azure AD (as another AD user) then, we have to add Office 365 license for every guest user, which is not acceptable.
Is there any workaround to achieve the objective? This is something, that is needed and expected to be implemented.
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Misbah
MisabhMHasan Christian_Montoya that's exact use case we are also working upon. Extending access to guest users in AD would make more sense and would be a cost effective way to access the WVD environment for end customers as they then could make use of their existing license.
Right now, one needs to create all customers accounts in same Ad tenant as that of WVD setup and then need to procure and assign license to each one of the customer record which does not make sense because end customers essentially end up paying licensing un-necessarily when they do already have valid license within their home AD tenant.
It's almost 1 year now and WVD spring release is in GA, do we know when it will be available?
- I also have this issue, mine presents slightly differently, what I've found is that I can actually direct RDP onto my win 10 wvd host, specifying the username from my other tenant. I achieved this by first logging into the VM and going to the remote desktop users local group, adding the user account from the other domain (same domain that I joined this domain to during the host setup ARM process.). So I also am doing cross tenant peering, and with a bit of dns work I got the ARM template to join to the AD DS in the other tenant during setup (which is synched from Azure AD, which is synched from AD Sync from on prem)
My problem is however in the application group assignment in WVD in the other tenant, I select my guest user from the other tenant... but when I log into the rdclient website portal as that user I don't get anything listed in there... It's just that last bit which is stopping me - getting that portal to show me the available desktop!!!
Anyone got the same setup as me?
