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Difficulty: HardAzure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

An organization needs to deploy a temporary virtual desktop environment for 50 external software engineers. The engineers require individual, persistent Windows 11 desktop environments with local administrative rights to install custom developer tools. The solution must minimize administrative overhead by utilizing a managed control plane for connection brokering and gateway access, while guaranteeing that each engineer has dedicated compute resources that are not shared with other users.

Which Azure deployment option should the organization select to meet these requirements?

  1. Azure Virtual Desktop configured with a personal host poolAnswer
  2. B
    Azure Virtual Desktop configured with a pooled host pool
  3. C
    Standard Azure Virtual Machines configured with a custom Remote Desktop Services (RDS) deployment
  4. D
    Standard Azure Virtual Machines deployed in an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set

Answer

Azure Virtual Desktop configured with a personal host pool
The correct answer is the option configuring Azure Virtual Desktop with a personal host pool. Azure Virtual Desktop provides a fully managed connection broker and gateway control plane, reducing administrative overhead. The personal host pool allocation ensures that each user receives a dedicated virtual machine with persistent storage and non-shared compute resources, making it safe to grant local administrative privileges.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the management requirement.
Identify that the solution must minimize administrative overhead for connection broker and gateway components, which points to a managed service like Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Virtual Desktop offloads the broker, gateway, web access, and diagnostics infrastructure to Microsoft, whereas standard Azure VMs with a custom RDS deployment require the customer to manage these components.
2
Analyze the user resource and desktop configuration requirements.
Identify that engineers need individual persistent environments with dedicated (non-shared) resources and local admin rights.
This rules out pooled host pools (which use multi-session sharing of VM resources) and points to a personal host pool where each user gets their own dedicated, persistent VM.

Key Concept

Azure Virtual Desktop Host Pools (Personal vs. Pooled) and Managed Control Plane
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Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

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