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AVD Multi-tenant strategy and licensing prerequisite question

Kyungbin Oh 60 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2024-09-10T05:59:44.15+00:00

Hello team,

I have a customer who needs to build three different tenants due to the compliance issue.

What customer is trying to do is create AVD for each tenants, but sync to main M365 tenant to utilize their M365 E3 license for each users.

Is this scenario workable? Does user in M365 tenant can utilize their existing E3 license to each different tenants for utilizing Windows in AVD?

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  1. Prrudram-MSFT 28,506 Reputation points Moderator
    2024-09-10T06:43:45.1133333+00:00

    Hi @Kyungbin Oh

    Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform.

    Yes, it is possible to create multiple Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) tenants and sync them to a single Microsoft 365 tenant. This scenario is workable and can be achieved by using Azure AD Connect to synchronize the user accounts and groups from the Microsoft 365 tenant to each AVD tenant. Regarding the licensing, users in the Microsoft 365 tenant can utilize their existing M365 E3 license to access AVD in each different tenant. However, each AVD tenant requires its own Windows 10 Enterprise license. You can use the Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session license to cover all users in the AVD environment.

    To summarize, you can create multiple AVD tenants and sync them to a single Microsoft 365 tenant using Azure AD Connect.The licenses and the AVD environment must be in the same tenant. So, if you deploy AVD in the main M365 tenant and all users are synced to that tenant, it will work. If they create AVD in the separate tenants and use users from those tenants, they would need to have licenses available for those users in the respective tenant. There is no cross-tenant access or licensing available in AVD.

    Please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/faq#can-i-deploy-azure-virtual-desktop-across-multiple-microsoft-entra-tenants-

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