manual-delete.md

title	description	author	ms.topic	ms.date	ms.author	manager
Delete Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) - Azure	How to clean up Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) when it is no longer used.	jensheerin	how-to	11/22/2021	jensheerin	annathan

Delete Azure Virtual Desktop (classic)

This article describes how to delete Azure Virtual Desktop (classic).

Warning

When you delete resources as described in this article, these actions are irreversible.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following things ready:

• A global administrator account within the Microsoft Entra tenant

• Download and import the Azure Virtual Desktop module to use in your PowerShell session if you haven't already

Delete Azure Virtual Desktop (classic)

1. Sign into Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) in your PowerShell window:

   Add-RdsAccount -DeploymentUrl https://rdbroker.wvd.microsoft.com

2. Sign in to Azure Resource Manager:

   Login-AzAccount

3. If you have multiple subscriptions, select the one you want to delete your resources to with this cmdlet:

   Select-AzSubscription -Subscriptionid <subID>

4. Run get commands for locating RDS resources

   Get-RDSTenant
   Get-RDSHostPool -TenantName <tenantname>
   Get-RDSSessionHost -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname>
   Get-RDSAppGroup -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname>
   Get-RDSRemoteApp -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname> -AppGroupName <appgroupname>
   

5. The next steps remove the classic version of Azure Virtual Desktop.

   Remove-RDSRemoteApp -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname> -AppGroupName <appgroupname> -name 'name'
   Remove-RDSAppGroup -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname> -Name <appgroupname>
   Remove-RDSSessionHost -TenantName <tenantname> -HostPoolName <hostpoolname> -Name <sessionhostname>
   Remove-RDSHostPool -TenantName <tenantname> -Name <hostpoolname>
   Remove-RDSTenant -Name <tenantname>