Can Azure Virtual desktop work without ADDS or AADDS?

Question

We are going to trial Azure Virtual desktop and thinking of joining the session hosts to only the Azure Active Directory. Will this work or is Domain Services a pre-requisite for Azure Virtual desktop to work properly?

How can I achieve this and what are the steps involved?

Would this cause problems for users who will access any on-prem application?

Answer 1

Azure AD is always used to authenticate users for Azure Virtual Desktop. Session hosts can be joined to the same Azure AD tenant, or to an Active Directory domain using Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) or Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS), providing you with a choice of flexible configuration options. Review the pre-reqs over here and this should give you a start. enter link description here

No issues with the application if they are migrated or federated to Azure.