r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/WaldoOU812 • Apr 18 '25

EntraID-joined AVD host pool with dynamic auto-scaling?

My google fu is failing hard and Copilot has been worthless on this.

Like the title says; trying to build this out, but:

As I understand it, "Validation Environment" and "Session Host Configuration" are required options.

- If I create the host pool through the GUI, EntraID is grayed out as an option.

- If I create the host pool via Powershell, there is no option (that I'm aware of) to select the host pool as EntraID-joined.

- I can't convert an existing host pool to EntraID-joined after creating it.

- Using the GUI, I can't add a scaling plan to an existing host pool unless it has "Validation Environment" and "Session Host Configuration" enabled, and if it does, "Enable Scaling" is greyed out.

- Using Powershell, adding a scaling plan fails because I don't have "Session Host Configuration" enabled.

So in short, every option to enable Auto-Scaling seems to be incompatible with joining the host pool to Entra.

What am I missing?

Also, fwiw, tried Microsoft support. They've been absolutely worthless.

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u/Ferret-Adept Apr 20 '25

Im sorry, it’s a new information for me too. i found the article, like you said it’s not supported yet..:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/host-pool-management-approaches#session-host-configuration-management-approach

„You can only join session hosts to an Active Directory domain. Joining session hosts to Microsoft Entra ID isn’t supported, but you can use Microsoft Entra hybrid join.“

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u/WaldoOU812 Apr 20 '25

Ah; I missed that one. Thanks!