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Swahlea
Copper Contributor
Jul 03, 2025

Bulk Start/Stop of Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts in a Host Pool via Single Trigger

Hi Community, We manage an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) host pool with a large number of session hosts (e.g., around 100), and we’re looking for a way to start or stop all session hosts in bulk using...
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Kidd_Ip
MVP
Jul 04, 2025

How about Azre Automation with parallel jobs:

 

$sessionHosts = Get-AzWvdSessionHost -ResourceGroupName "YourRG" -HostPoolName "YourHostPool"

$jobs = foreach ($host in $sessionHosts) {
    Start-Job -ScriptBlock {
        param($vmId)
        Start-AzVM -ResourceId $vmId
    } -ArgumentList $host.ResourceId
}

# Wait for all jobs to complete
$jobs | Wait-Job

 

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