Windows Virtual Desktop - connecting to other Azure services

Question

Hi,
The use case is there are large number of Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation based client server applications, we need to take these to Azure using Windows Virtual Desktop services. My questions are:

> Can I connect all the Azure Services like storage, service bus, App Services etc from the pool of virtual desktops?
> Seems Windows Virtual Desktop is not using Azure Resource Managers yet, will it create any issues in connecting the Azure services mentioned above and other components that use Azure Resource Manager??
> In the current version of Windows Virtual Desktop, can it be easily integrated with Azure Active Directory?
> We may need close to 200 desktops

Thanks.

Answer 1

@MoinakBhattacharya-9823 Apologies for the delay in response.

Yes, Internet access is enabled by default in VMs inside a VNet so you can connect to Azure Services from pool of Virtual Desktop.

Coming to your second query the Spring Update already uses ARM. In Fall the feature is not available but it doesn’t matter since you only need Internet connection to access the resources.

Moreover the current version of Windows Virtual Desktop is integrated with Azure AD for getting the access to the resources and AD or AADDS for entering the VMs so you don't need to worry on that part.

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