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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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MortenPedholt's avatar
MortenPedholt
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Dec 17, 2021
Hi Richard

I hope this can help you a bit.

So I have been using this optimization Tool since it came out both for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. I have tried reverting once but gave up because many things were a mess. So I created my session host again (It was not a big deal since I'm using DevOps Automation.) and excluded the things in the optimization script I still needed.
Regarding the Windows Store app, if you are using FSLogix, the apps won't be there after the users log off and on again. Then they have to download it again. This is FSLogix specific issue.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-virtual-desktop/how-do-we-install-store-apps-the-proper-way/m-p/1603362/highlight/true#M4009
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Richard Blanco Jr.
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Dec 17, 2021

MortenPedholt 

 

Thanks so much for your reply. We considered recreating the WVD shared hosts but the amount of LOB apps already in the deployment is staggering. 

 

The link you sent regarding the Modern Windows apps and the FSLogix profile is certainly news to us. All our deployments use FSLogix and the fact that this wont work is amazing.  I just tested this in a secondary deployment and the Windows app (i.e. Calculator) definitely gets removed from the user after the install. 

 

I guess I need to find a way to install a regular Win32 calculator app or even the classic windows one if its available.

  • MortenPedholt's avatar
    MortenPedholt
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 18, 2021
    Hi Richard

    Well, it sounds like you are configuring each session host manually? I always read my AVD machines from a Master/GoldenImage, or using Intune/SCCM.

    There is also a difference if the Appx package is installed for one specific user or all users. You can perhaps try to do it the other way again. below is a snippet of how the script removes Appx packages. then do an Add instead of Remove if you know what I mean?

    #region Begin Clean APPX Packages
    <#
    If (Test-Path .\ConfigurationFiles\AppxPackages.json)
    {
    $AppxPackage = Get-Content .\ConfigurationFiles\AppxPackages.json | ConvertFrom-Json
    $AppxPackage = $AppxPackage | Where-Object { $_.VDIState -eq 'Disabled' }
    }
    If ($AppxPackage.Count -gt 0)
    {
    Foreach ($Item in $AppxPackage)
    {
    $Package = "*$($Item.AppxPackage)*"
    Write-Verbose "Attempting to remove $($Item.AppxPackage) - $($Item.Description)"
    Get-AppxPackage -Name $Package | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null

    Write-Verbose "Attempting to remove [All Users] $($Item.AppxPackage) - $($Item.Description)"
    Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Name $Package | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

    Write-Verbose "Removing Provisioned Package $($item.AppxPackage)"
    Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object { $_.PackageName -like $Package } | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
    }
    }
    #>
    #endregion

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