[Reset OS disk on persistent VMs via API]

I’ve pinged this over to the product manager for you 

[Duplicate, Triplicate Non Persistent VDIs appear in SCCM]

8 hours ago, David Begbie1709163777 said:

I agree, I would much rather not have SCCM in the equation on NP VDIs, this is what I am used to.  But, in this environment, SCCM is used for App V as there are no Publishing servers.

Do yourself and your customer a favor - go and get AppVentix - you won't regret it, one of the best tools on the planet and THE best tool for this scenario https://appventix.com/

 

8 hours ago, David Begbie1709163777 said:

I will keep testing with BISF as its not something I am too familiar with and find the online documentation not that great

Hrm, have you been looking the docs page? It's pretty indepth https://eucweb.com/docs/bisf-7-1912

 

Strange you are seeing duplicate...  using BIS-F has always been my go-to for sealing (but also, whilst I know it functionally works, like most, I see ConfigMgr disabled in the non-persistent VDI)

[Installing 2303 VDA via SCCM or a command line]

try removing "Citrix WEM Agent" from your /exclude list. The WEM agent component hasn't been marked as removed on the deprecation list https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new/removed-features.html#deprecations-and-removals

 

and "Citrix Supportability Tools" from your /includeadditional list. This was removed in 2212 https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new/removed-features.html#removals

 

Neither are listed as valid anymore https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/install-configure/install-command.html 

 

 

[WEM centralized logging]

WEM service has some enhanced visibility which *should* make it to on-prem at some point

 

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/workspace-environment-management/service/manage/monitoring/insights.html

 

There are some basic stats around logon processing etc that get pulled into the WEM DB and are retrievable under the monitoring tab in the console - but not failures etc

[Duplicate, Triplicate Non Persistent VDIs appear in SCCM]

Deploy and Configure BIS-F for sealing, it will take care of it for you

 

https://eucweb.com/download-bis-f

 

The specifics for SCCM are here for seal https://github.com/EUCweb/BIS-F/blob/develop/Framework/SubCall/Preparation/10_PrepBISF_SCCM.ps1 and here for start https://github.com/EUCweb/BIS-F/blob/develop/Framework/SubCall/Personalization/10_PersBISF_SCCM.ps1

[Issue with Citrix WEM Service on File System Operations]

is there something missing in you sceenshot? That target path is not going to work -  you are targeting a username variable...

[Upgrade VDA from 1912 LTSR to 2203 LTSR on Persistent Desktops]

DaaS has this offering https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-daas/upgrade-migrate.html but I am guessing you are on prem?

[CVAD 1912 - Powershell - Add multiple users to diferent applications in Script]

yep, just use the original code and include a single user in the array

[New Windows 11 deployment environment setting only shows RemotePC option when trying to deploy to MCS]

oh I thought you were talking about catalog creation - apologies

 

no bug that I am aware of, did a small one with Windows 11 yesterday and it worked just fine with the latest media

[Issue with Citrix WEM Service on File System Operations]

I've executed on that scenario before - what is the issue? How are you defining your copy jobs?

[Have a 23,000 session Site through PVS to Physical. Going to Nutanix and virtual; Should we go to MCS instead of PVS]

On 5/4/2023 at 1:12 PM, Raymond Zawislak1709160782 said:

Disclaimer: I truly Like the Nutanix Products. 

 

This makes me happy

 

I am going to drop you an email - looking at the above information I don't think there is anything that would suggest a better path either way (particularly the scale and experience they have with Nutanix and MCS currently) but my experience with certain EMR providers is they may well tell you what to do here ?

[Second and subsequent logins result in a temp profile.]

Try specifically disabling the outlook search index roaming feature, and make sure you are on CU2 ?

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/profile-management/2203-ltsr/whats-new/cumulative-update-2/fixed-issues.html

 

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/profile-management/2203-ltsr/configure/enable-native-outlook-search-experience.html

[FSLogix - ProgramData\FSLogix\Cache - Filling up fast!]

You need to be careful with that setting above, its a per user configuration and will impact performance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/reference-configuration-settings?tabs=ccd#ccdmaxcachesizeinmbs

 

Agreed with above really, you need to have the capacity to handle local caching of the profiles and that needs to be on very fast disk - that is something often missed when using CC

 

As an FYI, you should make the change on the master/gold image because it won't work if you try and do it via GPO after provision....race condition 

[New Windows 11 deployment environment setting only shows RemotePC option when trying to deploy to MCS]

You will need this on each Controller: Nutanix AHV Plugin for Citrix and then this for integration with Director Nutanix AHV Plugin for Citrix Director

 

If you are using Citrix Cloud, then you need the AHV plugin on each cloud connector in the appropriate resource location

[Have a 23,000 session Site through PVS to Physical. Going to Nutanix and virtual; Should we go to MCS instead of PVS]

Disclaimer: I work for Nutanix ? 

 

Are you going native AHV for these workloads?

 

Nutanix makes MCS shine - but we also have many many customers at scale running PVS. Typically, this has been due to image management being a little simpler (historically) with vDisk replication across multiple PVS servers being a bit simpler than replicating a gold or base image across multiple clusters (but again, this is historical), and customer familiarity with PVS and existing processes for image update capability vs multi-catalog updates etc

 

MCS will perform slightly better earlier in the VM lifecycle due to our data locality capability. 

 

There are a few moving parts here - both options will shine - feel free to reach out if you want to dive into any of the features/capabilities/design considerations 

[WEM Agent cloud integration issue]

Not possible I’m afraid. WEM Service has never proxied through a cloud connector ever.
 

It uses the CC to register and then talks direct to the cloud service - has been that way since the day it was introduced 

[WEM Agent cloud integration issue]

Correct - this is nothing new, it's always been the case with the WEM service -> it's always been documented too ?

[WEM Agent cloud integration issue]

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/workspace-environment-management/service/reference/ports.html
 

plenty of documentation online on Citrix docs…

[WEM Agent cloud integration issue]

You need to allow the VDAs to talk to the wem cloud service, they do not proxy via the cloud connectors 

[Upgrade Citrix UPM]

If you are using Studio then the policy engine will be updated automatically by the upgrade process

 

No difference for the VDA - You can read up on the upgrade process for Citrix on the documentation site, but the VDA upgrade utility is pretty smart and will tell you what's there and what will be upgraded

[Upgrade Citrix UPM]

Always upgrade UPM, 99% of the time it will be handled as part of the VDA upgrade process

 

Make sure to go and update the ADMX files accordingly if you are using GPO to drive UPM

[Purpose of VHDX and O365]

9 hours ago, Thierry DEVIDAL said:

Because for me, in cloud-base env, the dekstop client should be only be a "viewer"

Not really how it works unless you operate in online mode and have acceptable performance when making queries across the web - rarely OK

 

most environments still operate in cached mode, meaning that now you have an OST and index to deal with. If you don't persist these, the experience sucks. You cannot in a supported fashion redirect them to a network location, and using file based profiles is not really going to cut the mustard. Hence container/VHDX technology to make things work 

[Is there a way to utilize 3rd party application redirection]

could they be using local app access? https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/general-content-redirection/laa-url-redirect.html

[Can WEM be used to apply permissions on folders and registry entries?]

WEM would fail to set permissions via an external task as it executes in the user context.

 

You would be best suited to using a traditional GPO and alter the permissions on the directory via that method - tried, proven, easy to track back through

https://www.lepide.com/how-to/assign-permissions-to-files-folders-through-group-policy.html

 

[Bloomberg API add-in]

if its just a standard add-in then the normal rules apply with excel regardless of how its published