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FSLogix profile disk disconnected after 10 hours
Introduction Today is a day when you had to work late, and then this. You’re working and suddenly your profile is no longer fully functional. After logging out and back in, everything works again, but what was going on? Or you are a developer and have a personal VDI. In the evening, you close the … Weiterlesen …
Excluding and including users of FSLogix
Local administrators, or administrators who are to manage the session hosts, should be excluded before a profile disk is created. I have created two scripted actions to help me with this. As a prerequisite, you need to know that I have a variable in which I have stored the name of the local administrator, as … Weiterlesen …
Deployment of custom scripts via a storage account with user-assigned managed identity
For the provisioning of session hosts, it can be useful to copy files from a storage account that are required during provisioning or operation. However, these files should not be publicly available and a storage access key should not be used. I can create a short-term shared access signature (SAS) so that a file can … Weiterlesen …
Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows Server 2022 and Microsoft Entra ID Only
Introduction The customer needs Windows Server 2022 as a session host. I explained that he needed RDS User CALs for this (I always used User CALs). The customer then ordered 2000 User CALs on my recommendation. The customer’s IT department then created a Windows Server 2022 RDS license server and added the existing domain. However, … Weiterlesen …
Delete Old FSLogix Profiles with Nerdio
Nerdio provides an Azure Runbook as a Scripted Action, which deletes profiles on a storage account if they are older than a defined number of days. The following parameters are required for execution: I took a closer look and saw the potential for improvement. Authorizations With a Nerdio Manager for Enterprise, I usually also provide … Weiterlesen …
SSO for Azure Virtual Desktop with AD users
I have now activated SSO for Active Directory users in my lab. I already had a configuration that allowed users to log in. The users and the session hosts are already hybrid. Now, the users can log in without entering an additional password. To realize this, I followed the Microsoft documentation: Configure single sign-on for … Weiterlesen …
New Nerdio instance – name is already in use
If you are deploying a Nerdio instance and you have deployed a Nerdio instance before, you may see the following error: Now, it’s not like you hit the same name with a probability of 36^12. Much higher is the probability that you want to deploy instances of Nerdio in the same tenant, in a resource … Weiterlesen …
How does Nerdio generate the name of an instance
When a new instance of Nerdio is created, various resources are provided, which must be globally unique by name. Therefore, a unique ID is calculated and used in the names of the resources. Below is the listing of all resources that contain the unique ID in a default installation: Example for [id] = 85uswehwlsoe5 Resource … Weiterlesen …
Nerdio Unified Application Management: Your packages in your own repository
With Relase v5.0, Unified Application Management has found its way into the Nerdio Manager for Enterprise console. Under Unified Catalog, applications from various repositories can be marked as favorites, which are then permanently displayed in the list: Once an application is in the catalog, it can be automatically installed on AVD Session Hosts, Windows 365, … Weiterlesen …
Session host can no longer be connected
In the last few days, we had an issue at a customer where session hosts were showing as Available, sessions were on them, but no users could connect to them anymore. So they were available first, users could log in. After some time the sessions were disconnected, but the sessions were still present. Logging off … Weiterlesen …