What's difference between Azure virtual machine and Azure Virtual Desktop.

samir karim 25

In a simple explanation, What's difference between Azure virtual machine and Azure Virtual Desktop ?

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Dillon Silzer 57,611 Reputation points

2024-04-28T16:33:38.3666667+00:00
Hi Samir,

Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) are supposed to be used for infrastructure (IaaS):

Web Servers

File Servers

Print Servers

On the other hand Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is allows you to virtualize desktops and applications and give them to your users, providing them a remote experience. An example of this is:

One of your users is working from home. They need to access company resources, but you don't want them running software/logging into things on their home computer. They must remote in to your AVD environment to access their work related resources.

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Haya 0 Reputation points

2025-01-19T09:27:18.91+00:00

@Dillon Silzer i still don't understand, can you elaborate more? Thanks in advance!

B, Nithin 0 Reputation points

2025-01-29T20:09:52.01+00:00

@Dillon Silzer What do you mean by virtualize desktops? Virtualize applications? Sound bit to abstract. Why is virtualization of applications coming under VMs topic. That add a bit more confusion to this.

VMs we can use RDP to access or SSH.
"They must remote into your AVD environment to access their work-related resources." - That exactly sounds like VM to me 😄.

I also had a look in AZ 900 tutorials by Microsoft, unfortunately it's too abstract even there, not even showing a practical example.

Please explain this!!
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