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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
Brass Contributor
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!

    • skp574's avatar
      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.

      • Garthlogic's avatar
        Garthlogic
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        Feb 18, 2021

        skp574 

        Howdy.  

         

        I believe if you edit the services.json file, find the CapureService and change the VDIState value to "Unchanged", the will allow the CaptureService to start and Snip will work.

         

        Note: I was unable to make it work AFTER it broke, but setting that value kept it from breaking after I rebuilt the session host and re-ran the optimize.

         

        example:

         

        {
        "Name": "CaptureService",
        "VDIState": "Unchanged",
        "URL": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.capture?view=winrt-19041",
        "Description": "OneCore capture service: enables optional screen capture functionality for applications that call the Windows.Graphics.Capture API."
        }

         

        Good luck

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