Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is incredibly powerful, but let’s be honest: once your environment grows beyond a handful of host pools, staying on top of configuration, dependencies, and compliance quickly becomes a challenge.
How many host pools do you have? Which image is used where? Are session hosts configured consistently? And, most importantly, could you prove all of that to an auditor, security team, or customer tomorrow?
This is exactly the problem Documenter for Azure Virtual Desktop was built to solve.
The real problem with AVD documentation
In theory, Azure gives us everything we need. In practice, AVD environments tend to grow organically over time:
- Multiple host pools for different workloads
- Different images per environment or region
- A mix of personal and pooled desktops
- Scaling plans, application groups, networking, identity… all interconnected
Documentation often ends up being:
- Outdated
- Manually written in Word or Wiki pages
- Incomplete or inconsistent
- Entirely missing for “temporary” test environments that became permanent
And when you need that documentation, during an incident, audit, migration, or handover, it’s usually too late.
Introducing Documenter for Azure Virtual Desktop
Documenter for Azure Virtual Desktop is an open-source PowerShell-based solution that automatically inventories your AVD environment and turns it into structured, readable documentation.
Instead of manually tracking changes, the tool queries Azure directly and produces a consistent overview of your entire AVD landscape, based on what is actually deployed, not what someone thinks is deployed.
It’s built for consultants, platform engineers, and operations teams who want clarity, repeatability, and evidence.
Built for automation-first teams
Documenter for Azure Virtual Desktop fits naturally into modern workflows:
- Run it on-demand before changes
- Schedule it as part of recurring audits
- Integrate outputs into project documentation
- Use it as evidence during handovers or regulator discussions
Because it’s script-based and open-source, you stay in control, no black boxes, no vendor lock-in.
Azure Virtual Desktop isn’t “just another Azure service.”
It’s a user-facing platform with security, cost, and availability implications—and it deserves proper documentation.
Documenter for Azure Virtual Desktop helps you move from assumptions to evidence, from manual effort to automation, and from fragmented knowledge to clarity.
If you’re serious about operating AVD professionally, this is a tool you’ll want in your toolbox.
👉 Explore https://www.azuredocumenter.com
