{"id":8672,"date":"2025-03-27T01:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:30:34","slug":"azure-virtual-desktop-create-seperate-shortcuts-for-single-and-dual-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/azure-virtual-desktop-create-seperate-shortcuts-for-single-and-dual-screen","title":{"rendered":"Azure Virtual Desktop &#8211; Create Seperate Shortcuts for Single and Dual Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only way to create two Session Desktops with Different screens setting ( which are called Host Pools ) in the Apps is by spinning up another Host pool AVD Cluster with new VM&#8217;s. These machines would only power on when needed. As there are two clusters to choose from there will be increased cost , as say you have 11 users logged into one Cluster ( single screen ) and 11 Users logged into the other ( double Screen )\u00a0 , you are paying for 4 servers ( 10 users per server ). In the single cluster you would only be paying for 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users will have to log out then back onto each cluster or they UPD will be locked if they have another session on the other cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There is a dirty workaround<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On machine you Modify the Local Machine Registry to force all RDP sessions to use One Monitor , then launch the Instance. Local Machines can only be change by Local Admins , so we would have to add Everyone to be able to change this key. We would have to change this into a .exe as its not recommended for Users to be running scripts which means we would need to sign this with a code signing certificate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8673 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8.png 905w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft recommends the method of users choosing this setting locally&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1024x359.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8674 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1024x359.png 1024w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-768x269.png 768w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1536x538.png 1536w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.png 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only way to create two Session Desktops with Different screens setting ( which are called Host Pools ) in the Apps is by spinning up another Host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}