You want to delegate the ability to power on and power off session hosts to a helpdesk administrator team. You do not want to give them access to modify the host pool configuration or delete VMs. Which Azure RBAC role should you assign?

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Virtual Machine Contributor. Powering on/off virtual machines is an Azure infrastructure operation. The Virtual Machine Contributor role grants permission to manage (start, stop, restart) virtual machines without granting administrative access to AVD resources (which would require Desktop Virtualization Contributor).

You want to delegate the ability to power on and power off session hosts to a helpdesk administrator team. You do not want to give them access to modify the host pool configuration or delete VMs. Which Azure RBAC role should you assign?

You want to delegate the ability to power on and power off session hosts to a helpdesk administrator team. You do not want to give them access to modify the host pool configuration or delete VMs. Which Azure RBAC role should you assign?

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