Two hundred seasonal contractors need a standard Windows desktop with the company's line-of-business applications, reached from their own unmanaged laptops, for four months. IT insists no company data ends up on those laptops. Which Azure service is built for this?
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Correct Azure Virtual Desktop
Correct. It delivers virtualised Windows desktops and applications from Azure, so the session and the data stay in Azure and the contractor's laptop is only a screen, a keyboard and a mouse.
Not correct One virtual machine each with a public IP and remote desktop open to the internet
Wrong on management and on security. That is two hundred machines to build and patch individually, each with a remote desktop port exposed to the internet — one of the most reliably attacked doors there is.
Not correct Azure App Service
Wrong. App Service hosts web applications. It cannot deliver a Windows desktop session or the installed line-of-business applications these people need.
Not correct Microsoft Entra ID licences with conditional access
Wrong on its own. Identity controls decide who may sign in and under what conditions; they do not provide a desktop to sign in to. This is a complement to the answer, not the answer.
Why
Azure Virtual Desktop centralises the desktop rather than the device: users connect to a session hosted in Azure, Windows multi-session lets several of them share a host, and data never has to land on the endpoint. When a requirement says the desktop itself, from any device, with nothing stored locally, that is Virtual Desktop — not a pile of individually managed virtual machines.
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