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Windows Virtual Desktop shutdown for inactivity
We are using WVD with single provisioned host pools and single user images. This was by design. We can set auto shutdown for each desktop but we would really like to have the WVD autoshutdown after a...
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Really need a way to autostop personal desktops so we can experience cost savings without full deallocation. We have a lot of devs and people who need personal desktops where a pool will not work.
We have transitioned to WVD and previously used Amazon Workspaces and it has the ability to autostop 'personal' VMs when a user is not active after 'x' number of hours. This puts the Workspace into more of a 'sleep' mode, not necessarily stopped 'deallocated' which ensures no lost work. Also when the Workspace is autostopped, the login to the Workspaces client will auto launch the Workspace.
We found the tool called Azure Starter (https://blog.itprocloud.de/Windows-Virtual-Desktop-Azure-Starter-for-WVD/) but this requires the end user to power it down themselves, there is no automation without the risk of lost work.
Really need a way to autostop personal desktops so we can experience cost savings without full deallocation. We have a lot of devs and people who need personal desktops where a pool will not work.
We have transitioned to WVD and previously used Amazon Workspaces and it has the ability to autostop 'personal' VMs when a user is not active after 'x' number of hours. This puts the Workspace into more of a 'sleep' mode, not necessarily stopped 'deallocated' which ensures no lost work. Also when the Workspace is autostopped, the login to the Workspaces client will auto launch the Workspace.
We found the tool called Azure Starter (https://blog.itprocloud.de/Windows-Virtual-Desktop-Azure-Starter-for-WVD/) but this requires the end user to power it down themselves, there is no automation without the risk of lost work.