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Difficulty: Very hardAzure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

A company plans to migrate its legacy remote desktop environment to Azure Virtual Desktop. Under the Azure shared responsibility model for Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft manages the virtualization infrastructure and control plane services, including the web portal, connection broker, and gateway. Is it true that Microsoft is also responsible for patching the operating systems and managing the applications installed on the session host virtual machines?

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The statement is false. In Azure Virtual Desktop, the customer is responsible for patching the operating systems and managing applications on the session host virtual machines.
The correct answer is false. While Microsoft manages the virtualization infrastructure and control plane services for Azure Virtual Desktop, the customer is responsible for managing the guest operating systems, applications, and user profiles on the session host virtual machines.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the boundary of the managed control plane in Azure Virtual Desktop.
Microsoft manages the connection broker, gateway, web portal, and diagnostics database.
This establishes what components are handled by Microsoft as a service.
2
Identify the deployment model and ownership of the session host virtual machines.
Session hosts are standard Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) deployed within the customer's subscription.
Determining where these VMs run helps map them to the correct shared responsibility model.
3
Apply the shared responsibility model to IaaS resources.
For Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the customer is responsible for managing the guest operating system, applications, network security, and identity infrastructure.
This determines who is responsible for patching and app management on the VMs.
4
Evaluate the statement in the question stem based on these responsibilities.
Microsoft is not responsible for VM patching or app management; the customer is. Therefore, the statement is false.
This provides the final determination for the true/false question.

Key Concept

Shared Responsibility Model for Azure Virtual Desktop
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Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

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