AZ-305 Practice Question 59: Pooled Desktop User Profiles
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) · Test 6 · question 9 of 10
An Azure Virtual Desktop deployment uses a pooled, multi-session host pool to keep costs low. Users are assigned to a different session host at each sign-in, but they expect their desktop settings, application data and Outlook cache to be the same every time.
Which solution should you use?
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Answer:
FSLogix profile containers store the whole user profile in a virtual disk on a network share and attach it at sign-in, so the profile follows the user to whichever session host they land on. It is the recommended profile solution for pooled host pools where a user may connect to a different session host each time, and Azure Files is a supported and common location for the share.
Option A fails because a local profile exists on one host only, so a user who lands on another host starts from a new profile.
Option C roams a limited set of Windows settings for devices, not application data or the Outlook cache, and it is not a profile solution for multi-session hosts.
Option D would keep profiles because each user has one machine, but it abandons the pooled design and multiplies the cost, which the scenario wants to avoid.
Reference: User profile management for Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix profile containers