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Copper Contributor

Jan 29, 2020

Disabling Local Drive redirection in WVD

As far as I can tell to disable local drive redirection in the WVD client you need to run: Set-RdsHostPool -TenantName "TenantName" -Name "HostGroupName" -CustomRdpProperty "drivestoredirect:s" ...

Copper Contributor

Mar 09, 2020

cwljack Did you ever resolve this issue? We are experiencing same.

cwljack
Copper Contributor
Mar 09, 2020
_new_man_ Yes but didn't use the WVD PowerShell command in the end, as it didn't work for me.

Had to add it via a group policy, here "Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Device and Resource Redirection".

Then enabling the Do not allow drive redirection group policy setting, and linking that to the OU with the WVD Session host computer accounts.

Hope this helps!
- KWalder100
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 17, 2020
  cwljack do you have any idea why the RDP settings in the Azure Portal for that WVD Host Pool are being ignored? Have you ever found the root cause? May it be related to that the WVD Host VM has been moved out of the "AADDC Computers" OU?
- _new_man_
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 09, 2020
  Thank you very much for replying! Yes, that does help me. We were able to disable using your resolution below. I was trying to avoid GPO and just do a quick command in WVD but that wasn't working. Thanks again. cwljack
  - townendk
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 09, 2020
    _new_man_
    
    I got this working with the following, I think you just missed a colon from your customrdpproperty:
    
    $property = "drivestoredirect:s:;"
    Set-RdsHostPool -TenantName "tenant" -HostPoolName FullDesktop -CustomRdpProperty $property

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