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Michael Fulton
Brass Contributor
Oct 13, 2021

VM Unavailable with Active Session

I have a Host Pool with 4 VMs, all set to auto shutdown at 10 PM.  The Host Pool is configured to allow start on Connect.  I am also using FSLogix.   Today I noticed that 3 of the 4 VMs were unavai...
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NKC25
Brass Contributor
Oct 20, 2021

Michael Fulton - Hi,

 

I think it's called "Stale session" the AVD database stores this session as "Active" however, the machine will be in shutdown state.

 

Solution- to update the permissions of "StartVMonConnect" role.

  • Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/start/action
  • Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read
  • Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/instanceView/read

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/start-virtual-machine-connect 

This should fix the issue.

 

 

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