Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure

You configured an autoscaling scaling plan for a pooled host pool. During the ramp-down phase, the finance department complains that active users are being forcibly signed out before they finish end-of-month reports, causing lost work. You need to prevent forced sign-offs of active sessions while still allowing the scaling plan to reduce capacity when hosts become empty. Which ramp-down setting should you adjust?

You created a dynamic autoscale scaling plan in the Azure portal and assigned it to a pooled host pool with defined ramp-up, peak, ramp-down, and off-peak schedules. Several days later you notice that session hosts are never being started or stopped by the plan, even though the schedule thresholds are clearly being met. The scaling plan shows as enabled and correctly associated with the host pool. What is the most likely cause that you must remediate?

Your organization stores FSLogix profile containers on an Azure Files Premium share. A user reports that files saved to their profile earlier today are missing after a session host crash corrupted their profile VHDX. Azure Backup is not configured for the file share, but the share has scheduled share snapshots enabled through Azure File Sync's snapshot capability and the built-in Azure Files snapshot feature. What is the fastest, supported way to recover the user's profile to its state from earlier today?

Your organization uses a pooled AVD host pool built from a custom image stored in an Azure Compute Gallery. Every month you apply Windows updates and line-of-business application changes to a dedicated build VM, generalize it, and publish a new image version. After the last deployment, users reported a broken LOB application, and you needed to quickly return all session hosts to the previously working state. What is the recommended strategy to enable fast rollback in future update cycles?

You maintain a pooled AVD host pool built from a custom image stored in an Azure Compute Gallery. Before applying monthly OS and application updates to the golden image VM, you want a recovery point that lets you quickly redeploy session hosts from the exact pre-update state if the new build causes logon failures in production. Your rollback plan must not require re-capturing or re-generalizing an older VM. Which approach best meets these requirements?

You manage a pooled AVD host pool with 12 session hosts. Management reports that the AVD Insights workbook shows a high number of user sessions, but the finance team argues that many of these are idle users leaving RDP disconnected rather than actively working. You need to identify, from the Insights 'Sessions' data, the users who are consuming a session host slot but are not actively interacting with their desktop. Which session state should you filter on to identify these users?

Users of a pooled AVD host pool report intermittent connection failures during morning logon peaks. You need to identify which specific stage of the connection process is failing (for example, ValidatingSessionHost or WaitingForAgent) across all affected sessions, using the least administrative effort. Which Azure Virtual Desktop Insights feature should you use?

You deployed Azure Virtual Desktop Insights for a pooled host pool. The Overview and Connection Diagnostics tabs display data correctly, but the Host Performance tab shows no CPU, memory, or disk data for any session host. Diagnostic settings for the host pool and workspace are correctly sending data to a Log Analytics workspace. What must you do to populate the Host Performance tab?

You manage a pooled AVD host pool that supports 500 users. Helpdesk reports that during peak morning hours, users experience slow logons and application launches, but there are no connection failures. You open Azure Virtual Desktop Insights and need to identify which specific metric will best confirm whether session hosts are overloaded on CPU during those peak periods so you can right-size the host pool. Which action in AVD Insights should you take?

Your organization runs a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop host pool with session hosts sending data to a Log Analytics workspace that powers AVD Insights. Microsoft has announced the retirement of the legacy Log Analytics agent (MMA). You must ensure that performance counters and event logs continue to flow into your workspace after the retirement date, with the least ongoing administrative overhead. What should you do?

You manage a pooled AVD host pool with 12 session hosts sending performance data to a Log Analytics workspace. Users report intermittent slowness in the afternoons. You need a KQL query that identifies which session hosts have the highest sustained processor pressure so you can rebalance load. Which query returns the average CPU utilization per session host over the last 24 hours, sorted from highest to lowest?

Your operations team reports that some users complain about slow sign-ins to a pooled AVD host pool. You have configured diagnostic settings to send AVD data to a Log Analytics workspace. You need to identify which phase of the connection is contributing the most to logon delays across all session hosts. Which approach should you use to get this breakdown?

Your organization runs a pooled AVD host pool. Management wants to use Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to review connection performance, session host errors, and usage trends. After deploying the Insights workbook, the report shows no data for the host pool, workspace, and application group, and a banner warns that diagnostic settings are not configured. What must you do first to populate the Insights workbook with this data?

Your organization runs a personal (persistent) host pool where each user is assigned a dedicated session host VM. Users store business-critical data directly on the OS disk and an attached data disk of each VM. Leadership requires that individual VMs can be fully restored to a specific point in time (including OS and data disks) within a 7-day retention window if a VM is corrupted or accidentally deleted. Which backup approach should you implement to meet this requirement with the least operational overhead?

Your company runs a personal (persistent) host pool where each user is assigned a dedicated session host VM. A senior engineer accidentally deleted critical project files from their personal desktop three days ago, and the deletion was not caught until now. The VMs are protected by Azure Backup using a Recovery Services vault with daily backups retained for 30 days. The engineer needs only the deleted files recovered, and the running VM must remain online with minimal disruption. What is the most appropriate recovery action?

Contoso runs a pooled host pool with 20 session hosts supporting a call center that operates in bursts. Peak usage is 08:00–17:00 on weekdays, with almost no usage on weekends. Management wants to reduce compute costs by automatically powering off unneeded session hosts during off-peak hours while ensuring capacity ramps up before the morning shift begins. You must use a native Azure Virtual Desktop feature that requires minimal custom scripting. What should you implement?