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Iron Contributor

Mar 25, 2021

different session hosts in the same hostpool?

Hello,

i need 2 differently configured groups of session hosts. One for the administrators and one for the HR employees.

Can I build these 2 groups of session hosts within one hostpool?

Or do I need to create 2 hostpools?

Thanks for your help

Stefan

YannickJanssens1986
Mar 26, 2021
You basically deploy one kind of base image (with pre-configured settings and software) to a single host-pool. So if the hostserver needs to be different for those two users groups and you cannot force this difference via Group Policy or AppAttach/AppMasking then you will need to deploy two host-pools with a different base pre-configured image for both. You'd also need two different hostpools if you don't want the users to mingle on the same server since you attach your FullDesktop Application Group on a hostpool level and not a server level.

Look up FSLogix App Masking if you want to cut costs by only deploying a few servers that are shared by everyone but access to the installed software needs to be restricted for some (active directory) groups. That way you only need to manage/update one central image instead of separate ones for each user group.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/implement-application-masking-tutorial

StevenR
Brass Contributor
Mar 25, 2021
Two hostpool, but there wouldn’t be an advantage to keeping them in one. What needs to be different as you could look at app attach for the different groups in same hostpool
- StefanKi
  Iron Contributor
  Mar 25, 2021
  Thank you for your support.
  In the scenario in my question there is no requirement for one or two host pools.
  I just learn and experiment with windows virtual desktop and looking for architecture best practice.
YannickJanssens1986
Brass Contributor
Mar 26, 2021
You basically deploy one kind of base image (with pre-configured settings and software) to a single host-pool. So if the hostserver needs to be different for those two users groups and you cannot force this difference via Group Policy or AppAttach/AppMasking then you will need to deploy two host-pools with a different base pre-configured image for both. You'd also need two different hostpools if you don't want the users to mingle on the same server since you attach your FullDesktop Application Group on a hostpool level and not a server level.

Look up FSLogix App Masking if you want to cut costs by only deploying a few servers that are shared by everyone but access to the installed software needs to be restricted for some (active directory) groups. That way you only need to manage/update one central image instead of separate ones for each user group.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/implement-application-masking-tutorial