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getbeyond
Oct 25, 2019Copper Contributor
Pooled hosts and profiles sticking
Been POCing the WVD solution and have a funny issue (at least in my head). I've setup 2 hosts that should be using pooled desktops. As I understand pooled means non-persistent (I'm a VMware guy not h...
- Oct 25, 2019
getbeyond you are correct that FSLogix manages profiles for non-persistent environments. The language of your question suggests that your expectation may be that using FSLogix is the default state when selecting pooled desktops during the host pool creation. Because there are configuration decisions that must be made related to FSLogix, it is installed and configured after the host pool is created.
For instructions on a minimal install of FSLogix to get started in WVD please see this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/create-host-pools-user-profile?
Additional documentation may be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/fslogix/overview.
Doug_Coombs
Microsoft
Oct 25, 2019getbeyond you are correct that FSLogix manages profiles for non-persistent environments. The language of your question suggests that your expectation may be that using FSLogix is the default state when selecting pooled desktops during the host pool creation. Because there are configuration decisions that must be made related to FSLogix, it is installed and configured after the host pool is created.
For instructions on a minimal install of FSLogix to get started in WVD please see this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-desktop/create-host-pools-user-profile?
Additional documentation may be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/fslogix/overview.
Ian_CC
Nov 01, 2019Copper Contributor
I was about to post the exact same observation. I understand FSLogix is not enabled by default when creating a host with pooled desktops.
However as per getbeyond I'm noticing that profile data and even application installation is persisted when users log on/off to a pooled host. That can't be intentional...can it?
Thanks.
However as per getbeyond I'm noticing that profile data and even application installation is persisted when users log on/off to a pooled host. That can't be intentional...can it?
Thanks.
- Doug_CoombsNov 01, 2019
Microsoft
Ian_CC In a pooled environment the user will be attached to the same resource if possible, this would result in the behavior that you observe. This is not guaranteed in a pooled environment. For instance, if the resource is not available, say it is stopped for some reason, or if the resource is saturated in certain scaling schemes. In these cases, the user would be routed to a different host in the host pool, and their information would not be available. This could be perceived, by users, as data loss. This would also result in non-consistent user profiles scattered across any host that the user has logged into.