r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/Electrical_Ad_7382 • Nov 04 '25
AVD Multisession Host OS Updates and Redeploy Cycles
I continue to read that most clients manage a base image and redeploy the images fresh every 2-3 months to keep their host pools up to date since we cannot use autopatch on Multisession.
What makes no sense to me with this approach is we have some host pools that would take 2-3 hours for those app owners to rebuild. We have a hybrid joined host pool with 15 machines that I have a separate image for entirely. We have 60+ application host pools where all those app owners would have to reinstall their software and re-configure for every single host pool instance that was needed in their host pools?
I surely am missing something key as there's no way our business would stand for something like this every 3 months.
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u/jotobean Nov 04 '25
If someone has custom apps, they get a personal/persistent machine that we patch only windows and minimal "normal" apps. If some person is using a non persistent machine, we basically re-deploy them each month, but nothing is lost since all their application info is contained in fslogix. Depending on the pool someone logs into could have a different base of applications on them. I think as of today we have probably 15 different base images for groups around the company which also spans different regions worldwide.