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Azure Virtual Desktop - Per User External User Licensing?
Hello, Does the "Per user access pricing for external users" support allowing external parties to connect to a full Virtual Desktop? The first link below shows the license as an option for "Virt...
- Both remote apps and desktops can be accessed by the external users. There is an extra cost for allowing access to desktops over only allowing remote app access. More info can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/remote-app-streaming/licensing
Thanks Jason so technically those users are not external users/Guest users. Inviting guest(external) users to our Azure AD, and assign them to WVD app group is still not possible?
JasonMasten
Microsoft
Microsoftjanzhang The recommended architecture for Remote App Streaming is to setup a dedicated tenant and subscription for your external users. So following that approach, you would never mix your internal and external users together in the same AD / Azure AD. Users cannot be invited in to use AVD (No B2B and B2C). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/remote-app-streaming/architecture-recs#deploying-azure-virtual-desktop-for-users-outside-your-organization
- JasonMasten
DVOSM Remote App Streaming provides licensing for AVD, not your Azure AD tenant. You would still need licenses to support P1 or P2 features.
- Thanks for this info! was looking for it!
But how about MFA functions for your external users? Would you then also need to hava an Azure P1 per external user or is this function part of the billing Remote App Streaming Service?
