What’s Inside This Guide?

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) provides a robust cloud-native desktop solution. Its multi-session offering is the lowest cost way for enterprise IT teams to run Windows desktops at scale. However, legacy technologies and approaches to application management hinder platform adoption, performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Containerizing your applications and centralizing them in the cloud with Cloudpager enables you to abstract applications out of your images and seamlessly run them across persistent and non-persistent multi-session desktops. In doing so, you can drastically reduce the number of Custom Images and Host Pools required to run AVD, cutting costs up to 50%.

This Azure Virtual Desktop whitepaper covers:

• Best practices for designing Pooled Desktop environments for high performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency on Azure Virtual Desktop
• How enterprise customers are leveraging Cloudpager to achieve a single Custom Image for tens of thousands of Azure Virtual Desktop users
• Strategies for standardizing on Windows 11 Enterprise Multi-Session OS to run AVD in the most cost-efficient manner possible