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Joel Janke
Iron Contributor
Jan 29, 2020

WVD and Zscaler App

Has anyone had an issue running Zscaler with WVD?   Or has anyone been succesful?   At the moment, Zscaler is totally killing our WVD pilot.   We run the app version of Zscaler that runs on the clien...
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ChristopherB2175
Copper Contributor
Feb 25, 2020
We're in the same boat. It doesn't appear ZApp supports the multi-session Windows 10 OS utilzed by WVD. Support tells me it's on the roadmap but currently unsupported. We've tried using PAC files but continue to get mixed results. Sites which should be blocked sometimes work, authentication fail, etc. Have you made any progress?
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Animesh Bhattacharya
Copper Contributor
Mar 26, 2020

ChristopherB2175 

Have you been able to get Zscaler to work on WVD? What has been your experience?

I read in some posts that WVD does not support proxy configurations, so am also wondering if this breaks any MS support on the vdi's running Zscaler.

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    ChristopherB2175
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 02, 2020

    Animesh Bhattacharya We had to take a different approach to ZScaler/Azure.  We are also a SilverPeak (SD-WAN) client so what we did was setup an SD-WAN virtual appliance in Azure which handles the GRE tunnels to ZScaler, then with routing tables change the WVD subnet to use this device as it's Default GW.  

     

    We're 3 months in with the design and no notable issues.  

    • rastok's avatar
      rastok
      Brass Contributor
      Sep 21, 2020

      ChristopherB2175 .We have similar issue with sporadic disconnects from active VDIs. We do have Zscaler on the network. Have you had further disconnects after you installed SD-WAN virtual appliance to handle GRE traffic?

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        allankchambers
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 22, 2022

        rastok 

        Hello Kip, I know this is quite an old post now, but we have the exact same setup and we have been using WVD with Zscaler for about a year. And its been a year of very frustrating random disconnections. Its driving us mad. We are going to attempt to remove Zscaler out of the equation and we think this will solve our random disconnects. Just wanted to see if that is what you ended up doing too by removing Zscaler from the setup? Or did you manage to ever get it working with Zscaler in the end?

        Kind regards

        Allan

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