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Hi everyone, I have a really odd behaviour at the moment. I have a folder under "C:\Program Files\Test" in my capture machine for my RDS Farm. My Domain Admin User can access it just fine in there, in fact that same user copied the folder there. I then go on to use OSOT to seal the image (folder is still there) Shut down the machine, take a snapshot and deploy that to the farm. After deploying I log in with my Domain Admin User and the folder is missing, however I know it's there because I can't create a folder with the same name. I then go on to log in with a normal Domain User and all of a sudden the folders show up for the Domain Admin aswell. I already checked the permissions for the folder, other folders in "C:\Program Files" have the same permissions as this one. It seems to be something that's happening during the deployment process, does anyone have a idea to fix this? Cheers Fabian

As others have pointed out you can use the command line utility "iccleanup" - Open cmd as admin - cd "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\tools\bin" - iccleanup.cmd - iccleanup.cmd -vc X -uid [User e.g. administrator@vpshere.local] -skipCertVeri - list [To see all your current Pools] - unprotect -I [Index e.g. 1] You can then delete the template and replica machines in vcenter

Thank you Rob, I forgot to mention we are running Horizon Version 2312 at the moment. I'll attach some screenshots, in the registry it shows the Smartcard Features as Absent for whatever reason. The other two screenshots show the features I'm installing it doesnt event list Smartcard as an option there, when I install the Agent on a Windows 10 Desktop for example, I see the Smartcard Feature as an option. (Sorry screenshots are German) I found this Link Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options (vmware.com) where it says the feature is only for Single User machines. Thats for Horizon 7 tho, so I'm not sure if that has changed in the meantime.

Hello everyone, I'm in the process of setting up a Horizon RDS Farm, we have several users that need to access smart cards inside their sessions for example to sign documents. These Smartcards are used by the applications inside the session not for logging into the session. I'm just not getting that to work at all. So the vendor of the smartcard reader we are using "ReinerSCT cyberjack" told us to avoid using USB Redirection because it wont work well on an RDS host, we are supposed to use Smartcard Redirection however I believe that is an Single User OS only feature as I can't seem to enable it when installting Horizon Agent on the Server and the feature shows as "Absent" in the Registry. Do I have any chance of getting this to work? At the moment we have VDI Desktops where USB Redirection works great for smart cards, but we have too much CPU and memory overhead from giving everyone a dedicated VDI, that's why we decided to move towards RDS. Any help is appreciated.

Hi Rob, yes it was the packaging guide if I remember correctly - the link was still working when I posted this. Anyways, thanks for clearing up my question. Time to upgrade then since we have to let go of our Standard Term licenses in May 2025 anyways since the support runs out then and our licensing partner assured us we will not be able to renew Term licenses and we apparently were lucky to have renewed them in May 2022.

Hello everyone, we are currently evaluating where to take our VDI situation. We are currently running on "Horizon Standard Term Licenses - Concurrent Users" However I've found some conflicting resources in different licensing matrixes. On VMware Horizon Pricing Packaging and Licensing (PPL) White Paper here it says Session Based Desktops (Terminal Server Farms) are supported for Horizon Standard. On vmw-horizon-perpetual-and-subscription-term-feature-comparison.pdf (vmware.com) it says that Session Based Desktops (Terminal Server Farms) are not supported. Can anyone help me out here? I can create Farms in the Admin Center just fine, Applications, I cannot create because we don't have Horizon Advanced and it gives me a warning. So the question is "Am I allowed to create and use RDS Farms and Pools on Horizon Standard or would we need to upgrade to Advanced?"