Hello @Jamie Goff
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It's not contradictory. The first doc states that it's possible; you might have good reasons to have a single host pool with session hosts in multiple regions. For example, in a personal host pool where you know which user is nearest to each region, you can directly assign each user to a VM that's most suitable for them and not have to build multiple host pools. However, for a DR scenario, that's less ideal because the metadata would be unavailable too.
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