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Christiaan_Brinkhoff
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Jul 31, 2020

(Azure) Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool now available

  Optimizing images has always been an important component of preparing images as part of a traditional  Remote Desktop Services (RDS) infrastructure or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)....
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Pashar's avatar
Pashar
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Feb 03, 2021

Christiaan_Brinkhoff 

Hi there, thank you guys for developing this tool. I am testing it and having it execute as a start up script after provisioning the Windows 10 2004 multi-session hosts.  What I have noticed is that the optimization script appears to break the Citrix Workspace App/Receiver.  When the Citrix Receiver is invoked or executed to start a published citrix app, it tries to repair itself.  If I dont run the optimization script, the Citrix Workspace App/Receiver launches correctly.  Has anyone else seen this?

 

Thanks

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    Nagorg-Terralogic
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    Feb 03, 2021

    Pashar 

     

    Personally I have seen this break a lot of stuff.  I've had better luck applying most of the optimizations via GPO.  This doesn't remove the MISX Apps but I honestly think this tool takes a "bull in a china closet" approach on that.

     

    My .02...

    • Pashar's avatar
      Pashar
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 04, 2021

      Nagorg-Terralogic  - Great idea but does need more testing!

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        skp574
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 18, 2021

        I have an issue when running the tool - it breaks Snip & Sketch. I have excluded the app from being removed. But there seems to be other optimisations happening that breaks it and causes it to crash when pressing Win + Shift + S.

         

        Faulting application name: ScreenClippingHost.exe, version: 2001.22012.0.551, time stamp: 0x5f7e6f9b

        Faulting module name: ScreenClipping.dll, version: 2001.22012.0.551, time stamp: 0x5f7e6b8c

        Exception code: 0x80000003

        Fault offset: 0x000000000001b92d

        Faulting process id: 0x200

        Faulting application start time: 0x01d7061f864d4936

        Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\ScreenClipping\ScreenClippingHost.exe

        Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\ScreenClipping\ScreenClipping.dll

        Report Id: 03cc773f-c630-4c66-aea4-49df01a43ccc

        Faulting package full name: MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_120.2212.551.0_x64__cw5n1h2txyewy

        Faulting package-relative application ID: ScreenClipping

         

        The app works find before optimisation script is run. Now trying to see what optimisations are causing it to break and exclude those as well.

         

        Running on a Windows 10 20H2 image in Azure trying to set up a gold image to update a session pool.

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