hostPools
Summary
Details
Create a validation host pool
Impact: Medium Category: Governance
APRL GUID: 013ac34e-7c4b-425f-9e0c-216f0cc06181
Description:
Validation host pools let you monitor service updates before the service applies them to your standard or non-validation environment.
Potential Benefits:
Enhanced environment stability
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ARG Query:
Click the Azure Resource Graph tab to view the query
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Configure host pool scheduled agent updates
Impact: Medium Category: Governance
APRL GUID: 979ff8be-5f3a-4d8e-9aa3-407ecdd6d6f7
Description:
Create up to two maintenance windows for the Azure Virtual Desktop agent, side-by-side stack, and Geneva Monitoring agent to get updated so that updates don't happen during peak business hours.
Potential Benefits:
Enhanced environment stability
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ARG Query:
Click the Azure Resource Graph tab to view the query
// Azure Resource Graph Query
// This resource graph query will return all AVD host pools that does not have scheduled agent updates configured
resources
| where type =~ "Microsoft.DesktopVirtualization/hostpools"
| where isnull(properties.agentUpdate)
| project recommendationId = "979ff8be-5f3a-4d8e-9aa3-407ecdd6d6f7", name, id, tags, param1 = 'No scheduled agent updates'
Ensure a unique OU is used when deploying host pools with domain joined session hosts
Impact: Medium Category: Governance
APRL GUID: 939cb85c-102a-4e0a-ab82-5c92116d3778
Description:
Place domain joined session hosts VMs in unique OUs. Segregate Prod and DR units for environment-specific settings. This ensures targeted configurations for session hosts, including FSLogix, session controls, etc.
Potential Benefits:
Improved AVD hostpool config & segmentation
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ARG Query:
Click the Azure Resource Graph tab to view the query
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Use Azure Site Recovery to protect stateful session hosts
Impact: Medium Category: Disaster Recovery
APRL GUID: 38721758-2cc2-4d6b-b7b7-8b47dadbf7df
Description:
Implement Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate or backup stateful session hosts. This replicates VMs to a secondary Azure region or availability zone, ensuring recovery from a known VM state in case of an outage.
Potential Benefits:
Ensures VM recovery & failover
Learn More:
ARG Query:
Click the Azure Resource Graph tab to view the query
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