Validation failed upon creating the host pool

[Luis_Farinango]

Hi guys,

Previous week I tried to deploy my first Windows Virtual Desktop pool but it did not succeed because of VM's not joining the domain. 

This week I tried the same thing again but i'm getting an error already this time when validating the host pool.

Error below:

Deployment template validation failed: 'The template resource '_artifactsLocation' at line '109' and column '31' is not valid: The language expression property 'templateLink' doesn't exist, available properties are 'template, templateHash, parameters, mode, debugSetting, provisioningState'.. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-template-expressions for usage details.'.

The setup I'm using to get this working is:

• AADDS synced with Azure AD
• Virtual Network with 2 subnets
• 1 subnet for AADDS
• 1 subnet for the virtual machines

I really can't think how this error would come up. I literally didn't change anything to my setup from the week before. Do you guys have any idea?

Thanks in advance.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Luis_Farinango: We have a known issue which we are currently resolving. Communication went out to impacted subscriptions through Azure Service Health - learn more how to set it up here.

Use the following approaches to succeed with your deployment.

Work around #1
Deploy VMs using any of the methods Azure support (ARM, portal, APIs, PowerShell, Terraforms)
Perform domain join of created VMs via following arm template https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/templates/201-vm-domain-join-existing/
Create WVD host pool and registration token via PowerShell https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/create-host-pools-powershell
Run following ARM template to perform registration https://github.com/Azure/RDS-Templates/tree/mbastos/joinhostpool/wvd-sh/joinhostpool

Work around #2
All steps form work around #1 can be performed manually
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/tenant-setup-azure-active-directory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/create-host-pools-powershell

[#3]

@Eva Seydl 

Thank you for the reply.

I used workaround #1 en this solution worked perfectly! Finally I can begin with testing :)