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- Heather_Poulsen
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- Regarding VDI, i see there is an easy way to shutdown vms in azure but is there an easy way to set vms to a timetable of starting and shutting down.
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- Does MS offer a cost comparison for an environment to understand if it is best to stay on Azure VDI vs Cloud PC? Only focusing on cost for those users that have persistent VDI's
- EricOrman
ESJeffL , good question and I get this a lot, let me give you my elevator pitch, DM me if desired and we can talk more. Short answer to your question. I like to think of the value of W365 synonymous to the value customers got when migrating from Exchange on-prem to Exchange online. With Exchange online you assign a license and in minutes a mailbox is created, with Exchange on-prem there is so much overhead for setup and massive amounts of maintenance. W365 is a SaaS just like Exchange Online, made simple and made to run in the Cloud. The value is simplicity and speed. The time to deployment is super easy with W365 as I explain, 1 license assignment and 4 questions so customers already using Intune can adopt it super quick.
- But in this case we are comparing two cloud solutions. We do have a on-prem VDI which is usually cheaper than cloud but trying to understand why we would use Cloud PC when we already have Azure VDI in place.
- AVD - AADJ Integration with Intune. would love any Documation for managing local admin access with PIM global admin, not LAPS
- DavidBelangerHi Caleb, it's not yet possible to use Azure AD PIM to restrict local admin access on Intune managed VMs. We expect there might be some technical challenges to do so.
- Heather_Poulsen
We’ll continue to answer questions here in the chat for the rest of the half hour and we’ll check back throughout the week. For bonus content, make sure to check out our Technical Takeoff Demo Channel and subscribe to our YouTube channel! We also have more sessions on Azure Virtual Desktop in the Video Hub!
- Optimizing Costs with Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Virtual Desktop security, reliability, and resilience
- Heather_Poulsen
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- We are currently comparing W365 with VMWare Horizon for Azure. Appreciate they overlap - is there a MS doc detailing the pros/cons of both and which you would use in what scenario please?
- EricOrmanNo, although there is a link in the presentation to request trial licenses for Windows 365 to evaluate the product.
- so the cloud pc can be AADJ or HADJ right?
- EricOrmanWindows 365 supports both AADJ and HAADJ. Be advised that if HAADJ is selected you must also bring an azure subscription which has networking line of sight to your AD domain controller in order to complete the HAADJ process. We find that customers like to use AADJ with Microsoft hosted network for the simplicity because no azure subscription is needed/required.
- DavidBelanger
Yes, Windows 365 supports both AADJ and HAADJ hosts. This can be selected when creating the provisioning policy. We generally recommend using AADJ when possible.
- Hi, but selecting AADJ will not give you access to servers or resources running in your own tenant right? In order to access a file server, LOB software ,etc? What do you not get if using AADJ instead of HAADJ? thanks
- For AVD personal, A challenge has always been that a IT support person has difficulty configuring our troubleshooting the device because they cannot logon to the machine as only one user is allowed to be assigned. It also means we can never re-use the same personal machine, it has to be reprovisioned. Will either of these 2 pain-points get addressed in the future?
- DavidBelanger
Hi Erin, for the purpose of troubleshooting or managing a VM, an admin can access personal hosts with tools like Azure Bastion. We are also looking into adding an option to shadow a session so admins can help users.
Can you tell me more about the reason you'd like to re-use the same personal desktop between two users?
- we have extremely complex networking and firewall rules in our WVD environments to segregate and segment PCI, PII data . We have used AVD pooled and personal devices for this use case, where we can very granularly control and configure that access. Will Windows 365 have the equivalent control or is AVD the better solution?
- EricOrmanWith Windows 365 you can choose to deploy Cloud PC's into a Microsoft hosted network (only AADJ is supported) or bring your azure subscription and deploy Cloud PC's into a VNET that you manage and control where both AADJ and HAADJ are supported. When creating a provisioning profile you select the exact subnet within your azure subscription to deploy CLoud PC's into. I cover this in greater detail in my session later this week, here is link = https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-events/windows-365-provisioning-and-azure-network-connection-anc/ec-p/3652918
