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BerndLoehlein
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Apr 21, 2021

Deallocate VM on user logoff

Recently we've announced the public preview of start VM on connect which will allow your deallocated virtual machines getting started automatically when the assigned user tries to connect. Let us hav...
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    BerndLoehlein
    Sep 20, 2021

    HenryGelderbloem PatrickBrack 

    Could you please try to update the custom role used for Start VM on Connect and add Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/instanceView/read to it? This should ensure that sessions are removed in the service upon deallocation of the virtual machine.

     

    We've already updated our docs for Start VM on Connect, but could be easily missed by customers already using this feature.

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krayste
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Hi BerndLoehlein , thank you heaps for this and it works like a charm for the VMs we use in our host pool. Just wanted to ask if there's a way to automate the deployment of this group policy somehow in Azure, rather than remoting into the VM and setting the policies manually?
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BerndLoehlein
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Jul 30, 2021

Hi krayste,

 

For an AD-joined host pool I would recommend configuring the mentioned settings via central group policy and targeting this to the OU where your session-hosts reside. You would then also make the script accessible on a central location, e.g. the SYSVOL share, so you don't need to deploy the script on every host.

 

For AAD-only environments there may be an option to automate it using MEM/Intune.

 

Regards,

Bernd

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