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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
Given the external users need to be created under the same ADDS and Azure AD within the tenant of where the AVD deployment will be, how does Microsoft identify the difference between "internal" and "external" users?
janzhang External uses in AAD always have a UPN that indicates this.
So if I invite mwolfson@microsoft.com to my tenant as a Guest account (meaning they will authenticate to their own AAD and provide my tenant a token their UPN from my AAD tenant will be
mwolfson_microsoft.com#EXT#@mdwsoft.onmicrosoft.com
Pretty easy to distinguish and further you wouldn't have an AD identity if you are using Hybrid Join as most AVD customers use today, meaning the VM is joined to the domain and AD credentials on the VM must match the UPN in AAD.