You have an Azure subscription named Sub1 that contains a virtual network named VNet1. Sub1 has an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment that contains a host pool named Pool1. Pool1 contains 10 session…

Disabling public access might be part of the overall private endpoint strategy, but it is not the *first* step for enabling private endpoint connections for a host pool; the resource provider must be updated first.

Before configuring private endpoints for Azure Virtual Desktop, it is a prerequisite to reregister the Microsoft.DesktopVirtualization resource provider in the subscription to ensure the latest features, including private endpoint support, are available.

Enabling RDP Shortpath optimizes direct client-to-session host connectivity but is unrelated to the initial configuration steps for adding private endpoints to the host pool itself.

Adding a service endpoint to VNet1 allows secure access to Azure services over the Azure backbone, but it is a different networking concept than private endpoints and not a prerequisite for enabling private endpoints for AVD.