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RobinFan
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Aug 22, 2019

Windows Virtual Desktop - Deployment failed

Hi there,    I was trying to setup WVD by following the MSDN tutorial and the video walkthrough and able to provision a host pool and pass the validation, however, an error occurred in the deployme...
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Sami_Holtta
Copper Contributor
Aug 23, 2019
Only Azure Active Directory is not enough. You need also Active Directory Domain Services with Azure AD Connect or Azure Active Directory Domain Services for your VDI desktops.
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RobinFan
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Aug 30, 2019

Hi Sami_Holtta, 

I’ve followed the steps to create the AD Domain Service but still failed at the same error message, “Exceptions occurred while joining Domain”. Any ideas how to figure out this problem ? Thanks.

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    Sami_Holtta
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 31, 2019

    And if you have enabled user accounts for Azure Active Directory Domain Services and generated password hashes, your deployment should work if all other settings are correct.

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      RobinFan
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 03, 2019

      Sami_Holtta , I have created a member ( wvd_test@robinfan723gmail.onmicrosoft.com) under the AAD Domain.

       

      Next, to generate password hash, I followed this article, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/join-windows-vm, and in the step of join a Windows server VM to a managed domain, I failed again at connect to VM. It asked "Request access" before connecting it and after I click it, the event "Requesting just-in-time access" is running, however, it can't finish and keeps running infinitely. Not sure why and any steps I ignore ? 

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        Bionicjoe
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        Sep 09, 2019

        RobinFan 

        I created a test VM and in order to connect to it via RDP I had to add my local public IP to the network security rules. Once I could connect I joined it to the domain just fine. 

         

        Still when I create the WVD hostpool it fails at the same point. 

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    Sami_Holtta
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 30, 2019

    Ok, this is Azure Active Directory Domain Services, not Active Directory Domain Services with AD Connect. You need  domain credentials to join the domain (AD domain join UPN user, this will be also a new local admin user in your VDI desktops, sounds strange yes). Use the credentials for a user that belongs to the Azure AD DC administrators group. Only members of this group have privileges to join machines to the Azure AD DS managed domain. Check also that your VNet Custom DNS configuration is ok.

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      Sami_Holtta
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 31, 2019
      Also when this deployment fails, it is good practice to delete unused old resources and configurations. Most of the configuration and cleaning tasks only with PowerShell (maybe in the future also in this portal).

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