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Splunk Agent for Non-Persistent Desktops

June 26, 2023 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

To install the Splunk agent on a non-persistent VDI desktop running Windows, you can only perform the installation using the command line. To install the Splunk Universal Forwarder without launching the service immediately, you need to use the “LAUNCHSPLUNK=0” parameter and value. Here’s an example command for the installation: One installation is done, please check windows services and make sure the service is not running. If your Windows image requires additional tasks, you may set the service startup type to…

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Assigning Drive Letter to AppStacks and Writable Volumes Doesn’t Work

March 20, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

Assigning drive letter to the AppStack/s or Writable volume fix few of the known issues. As example, assiging drive letter to Writable Volume fix the issue for Chrome extension. It also fix the issue with Microsoft OneDrive Syncing folder creation issue. The registry tweak VMware provided for the drive letter is not just assiging letters but also for hide those. The registry setting in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\svdriver\Parameters, the parameter is called “DriveLetterSettings”. It’s a REG_DWORD key. By default this parameter is not…

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“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected” with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume

March 5, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

In non-persistent environment with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume (or similar product), OneDrive fails to get configure Sync folder and through an error says “Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected”. There are few ways to fix the issue. The first one is to assign a drive letter to the Writable Volume to fix it. But this is not the solution that everybody prefers due to security reasons. The end user can explore the drive, even…

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VMware App Volumes – Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

July 8, 2016 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

VMware App Volumes communicate throughhttp and https protocol. Since, http sends data in clear text, people like to use https protocol. There are number of VMware KB those describe about how to configure systems for https communication. One of the VMware KBs number 2095972 mentioned how to disable port 80 (http) from manager. But disabling http port give a nasty error 403 /404, while user try to access using http protocol. To make it look better to users, it is…

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App Volumes 2.11 Known Issues

June 16, 2016 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

AppStacks and Writable Volumes fail to attach on instant clone agents if the Data center name and virtual machine folder locations have non-English characters.Workaround: Change the Data center name and the virtual machine folder name to English. The Windows Search menu fails to launch with AppStacks on Windows 10 machines. BSOD occurs on 1 desktop during logon in a pool of 2000 desktops when AppStacks and a Writable Volume are attached.Workaround: Restart the machine or perform a delete operation to reprovision the…

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