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HandA
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Mar 25, 2019
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Requirement to have an on-prem AD

Looking at the documentation, it seems an on premise AD is required for Windows Virtual desktop in Azure and Azure domain join is not supported. Can anyone confirm if that's definitely the case? It s...
  • Josh Bender's avatar
    Josh Bender
    Mar 25, 2019

    HandA

    on-prem AD is not required.


    AD requirements:
    Option 1: Domain controller that is synchronized with Azure Active Directory. The domain controller can be on-prem or in cloud. To synchronize with Azure Active Directory install Azure Active Directory Connect.
    Option 2: Azure AD Domain Services domain in Azure (automatically synced with Azure Active Directory)
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Christian_Montoya
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May 02, 2019

Alberto Rodriguez : Do you have access to those VMs? If you can RDP into them, please look at C:\Packages and navigate down to the JsonADDomainExtension folder, you should be able to find a "status" file (or equivalent). If you open it up, it will typically give you the reason that it errored out. Unfortunately, I do not have too many details at the moment because the documentation on the extension is fairly light.

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Alberto Rodriguez
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May 03, 2019

Christian_Montoya [{"version":"1","timestampUTC":"2019-05-02T15:37:19.805151Z","status":{"name":"ADDomainExtension","operation":"Join Domain/Workgroup","status":"error","code":1,"
formattedMessage":{"lang":"en-US","message":"Exception(s) occured while joining Domain 'azure.mnetpr.com'"},"substatus":[{"name":"JoinDomainException for Option 3 meaning 'User Specified'","status":"error","code":1,"formattedMessage":{"lang":"en-US","message":"ERROR - Failed to join domain='azure.mnetpr.com', ou='', user='arodriguez@azure.mnetpr.com', option='NetSetupJoinDomain, NetSetupAcctCreate' (#3 meaning 'User Specified'). Error code 1326"}},{"name":"JoinDomainException for Option 1 meaning 'User Specified without NetSetupAcctCreate'","status":"error","code":1,"formattedMessage":{"lang":"en-US","message":"ERROR - Failed to join domain='azure.mnetpr.com', ou='', user='arodriguez@azure.mnetpr.com', option='NetSetupJoinDomain'
(#1 meaning 'User Specified without NetSetupAcctCreate'). Error code 1909"}}]}}]