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Copper Contributor

Oct 28, 2019

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Creating custom images

What is the preferred method of creating custom images for WVD? Should we use an unmanged image and store the VHD in a storage account or create a VM with a managed disk and capture if after we run s...

PavithraT
Oct 29, 2019
Chris Calaf https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/set-up-customize-master-image

Did you take a look at this documentation? I think it should answer your questions.

stevenzelenko

Brass Contributor

Mar 29, 2020

Chris Calaf we actually created a gold image using the recommended capture approach for Azure VMs. We built out one WVD multi session VM in a host pool, built out our apps, then sysprepped and captured it. However, we ran into an issue when we deployed with it as we had to uninstall all of the WVD agents and bootloaders on each VM deployed and re-install it with a new token to connect them up to the WVD service. All is well now. We uninstalled the agents and bootloader from our gold WVD image and seems to work well now.

Cody Kloepfel

Copper Contributor

Apr 23, 2020

stevenzelenko I'm in the same boat currently, how did you end up fixing your master WVD image? Are there installers somewhere that allow you to reinstall those with a new token?