Azure host pool in Asia cannot reach certain websites

Anthony Kirit 1 Reputation point
2021-09-09T13:43:42.273+00:00

I have setup a host pool in Asia and users cannot reach certain websites because of country rules blocking them. A VPN in WVD will not work because it would break your RDP connection, I tried force tunneling to my US Vnets but that broke WVD front end.

My question is, how can I route traffic for the internet (or at least for the sites they cannot reach) so that users look like they are coming from the US so they can reach their websites without breaking WVD?

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  1. prmanhas-MSFT 17,886 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2021-09-15T15:08:48.227+00:00

    @Anthony Kirit Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue.

    To achieve this, a user-level proxy service would be required. e.g. you would run a proxy server in the US and point the web browser to use this proxy to connect to the Internet, or you can look into a cloud proxy service like e.g. zScaler (or others).

    We have general guidance on proxy servers when it comes to traffic handling for the AVD traffic, but not specifically to end-user traffic :

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/proxy-server-support

    Hope it helps!!!

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