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A retail company wants to provide its seasonal remote employees with secure access to a Windows 11 desktop experience from their personal laptops. To optimize resource utilization and reduce costs, the company needs multiple employees to sign in to the same underlying virtual host simultaneously. Which Azure service should the company deploy?

  1. A
    Azure App Service
  2. B
    Azure Virtual Machines
  3. Azure Virtual DesktopAnswer
  4. D
    Azure Container Instances

Answer

Azure Virtual Desktop
The correct answer is Azure Virtual Desktop because it is a cloud-based desktop and app virtualization service. It specifically offers Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session, which allows multiple users to connect to the same virtual host concurrently, helping to optimize resource utilization and reduce hosting costs.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the requirement of hosting a full Windows 11 desktop experience for remote users.
This requires a service capable of hosting client operating systems (like Windows 11) rather than container-based or application-based hosting.
This rules out application-hosting and container-hosting services.
2
Identify the multi-session concurrent hosting requirement to reduce costs.
Standard Azure Virtual Machines running Windows client operating systems only support single-session environments.
This points to a specialized service that supports Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session.
3
Select the service that supports multi-session Windows 11 desktop environments.
Azure Virtual Desktop supports multi-session, enabling multiple users to connect to the same host simultaneously.
This matches all stated business requirements.

Key Concept

Distinction between Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session capabilities
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Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

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