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Need some technical answers about AVD
Here are answers to your additional questions :
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- You are right, here is a list of all eligible licenses you could use : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/licensing#eligible-licenses-to-use-azure-virtual-desktop. You can buy those license by a reseller in the CSP chanel. But regarding your project scope, it could add complexity.
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- Here is the Microsoft definition of AVD external users : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/licensing#internal-and-external-commercial-purposes : In the context of providing virtualized infrastructure with Azure Virtual Desktop, internal users (for internal commercial purposes) refers to people who are members of your own organization, such as employees of a business or students of a school, including external vendors or contractors. External users (for external commercial purposes) aren't members of your organization, but your customers where you might provide a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application using Azure Virtual Desktop. >> I don't think that match your case.
- Sorry, my bad, the OS size means the OS disk size in GB, then more bigger it is, more expensive it will be.
- I never use the Azure Virtual Desktop item in the Azure Pricing Calculator tool to be honest, I always use VMs and disks and do some maths. In your project, regarding the number of connected users, only one VM should be enough.
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- 1 VM = 1 disk , 2 VMs ....
Last but not least, Windows 365 Cloud PC, as a easy to purchase licence, could be a easier solution for you ?
jlou65535 Thanks again, Jean-Loup. Unfortunately this is all getting much more complex (and expensive) than I had hoped or imagined it would be. I looked into Windows 365 Cloud PC and spoke with an MS sales person and asked a lot of questions, and it became clear that their pricing was, again, much more complex and expensive than it first seemed. Their pricing doesn't include access to the required Microsoft 365 admin center with global administrator or billing administrator roles, or new tenant creation. That requires that I purchase MS 365 Business Basic at an additional $7.20/month per user. Also, their pricing doesn't include access to the required licensing for Windows 11 Enterprise or Windows 10 EnterPrise, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Entra ID. That requires that I purchase MS 365 Business Premium at 19.75/month per user. Even worse, their "cheapest" offering is a so-called 3-user license, but it's for NON-CONCURRENT use. Those 3 users aren't supposed to be logged in at the same time. If they do, while they do have something called a concurrency buffer exception (which gives the first user a little time to log off after a second user logs in), it's riddled with restrictions, including and up to having them remove access to that exception if it's used too often. I'm really afraid that neither Azure nor Cloud PC are going to be appropriate for my needs. I do want to thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, without which I wouldn't have gotten anywhere at all.