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rachterberg
Apr 17, 2020Copper Contributor
Windows Virtual Desktop shutdown for inactivity
We are using WVD with single provisioned host pools and single user images. This was by design. We can set auto shutdown for each desktop but we would really like to have the WVD autoshutdown after a...
FortyMegabytes
Apr 23, 2020Brass Contributor
I am not a Microsoft guy, just a WVD user. But I think this is functionality that's far down the road at the moment if it's even on the roadmap at all.
You can set up some Azure automation to deallocate based on CPU usage. Check this out:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-solution-vm-management-config#cpuutil
So maybe configure that for your session hosts.
Joel Janke
Sep 23, 2020Iron Contributor
FortyMegabytes not sure about shutdown, but startup of a deallocated resource is on the roadmap for Dec2020...https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=70198