Deployment failed due to Join domain error

Question

Hi there,

I'm currently a 4th-year college student investigating Virtual Desktop Infrastructures as part of my final year project. I'm hoping to build a prototype using Windows Virtual Desktops within Azure. However, after deploying the host pool I run into this error (please see screenshot attached). As I am just a student who does not have the equipment or infrastructure of a large organization I created a domain with Name.com (x01038184.live).

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction!

Below is the error code

{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details.","details":[{"code":"VMExtensionProvisioningError","message":"VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'joindomain'. Error message: \"Exception(s) occured while joining Domain 'x00138184.live'\"\r\n\r\nMore information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/vmextensionwindowstroubleshoot "},{"code":"VMExtensionProvisioningError","message":"VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'joindomain'. Error message: \"Exception(s) occured while joining Domain 'x00138184.live'\"\r\n\r\nMore information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/vmextensionwindowstroubleshoot "}]}

Answer 1

Hi @Jasmine lynam ,

unfortunately the Active Directory is a mandatory requirement to run an Azure WVD environment.

If you create a small Windows Server VM it's cheaper than the Azure Active Directory Services. You are able to reduce the costs for the VM if you deallocate the VM if not needed. A small VM SKU/size should be ok for a AD Domain Controller.

Depending on your region and the time the VM is up and running the costs for the VM could look like this (around 20 US$ if you run the VM 40 hours per week/160 hours per month (choose the smalldisk version of the Windows Server Image! -> OS Disk will be 32 GB than):

Only the storage transactions will be added, which should be just a few US$ per month in a test environment.

You should take a look at the Azure Price Calculator and do your own math based on your requirements (VM Sku, time the VM is running):
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi @Jasmine lynam ,

You need to setup an Active Directory domain in sync with the Azure AD to join the WVD host VM.
This AD domain could be deployed as "own-managed" with a Windows Server VM or using the Azure Active Directory Domain Services.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/overview#requirements

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 3

Another thought about the issue you are facing is as below as you can see from the troubleshooting reference: https://aka.ms/vmextensionwindowstroubleshoot
It can be a timeout. If that's the case, easy fix is to deploy again by pressing 'redeploy'