Managing local roles, groups, and rights assignments on AVD session hosts

In this section, we will take a look at managing local roles, groups, and rights assignments. When working in a pooled desktop environment, it’s important to ensure that each session host is configured identically within the pool so that they have the same user experience. When configuring local roles, groups, and rights assignments, you can configure these on the gold master image (image template) or configure Group Policy to apply to single or multiple host pools centrally.

Tip

Using Group Policy is great when you’re working with multiple host pools as you don’t need to worry about customizing the image with roles, groups, and rights assignments. In Entra ID-only or hybrid deployments, you can also use Intune policies.

The use of local roles and groups might be required for specific requirements such as applications or allowing additional access permissions to the local operating...