I'm currently looking at hyperv and xendesktop VDI solution and was wondering how the SCCM/SCOM agents are going to handle being installed on pooled machines. I'm expecting duplicate GUIDs etc. Is there any official guidance on how to deal with getting these agents onto the master image?Matt Summer

Why are you expecting duplicate GUIDs? The parent VM should be properly installed just like it were an image generalizing the ConfigMgr agent: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694095.aspx. The (only) other issue to worry about (to my knowledge) is that hardware and software inventory on these systems will all kick off at the same time because they will initially be based on the agent installation time: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633275.aspx. I'm not sure of the best way to handle this though.Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | Twitter @JasonSandys

Well if the machine in the VDI pool after being logged off is reset back to the master image e.g. the differencing disk is deleted. The machine is then fired up again by a different user and a new differencing disk is created surely a new guid would be generated? see if this helps: http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2011/02/04/configmgr-on-xendesktop-with-the-usage-of-provisioning-server-unique-guid-issue-and-the-smscfg-ini.aspxMatt Summer

I've read that ConfigMgr 2012 is "VDI aware", could anyone from MS care to comment this?Matt Summer

I doubt that you will get anyone from MS to publicly state anything about VDI support until after the CM12 has been released. You are better off asking this question in the CM12 connect forum. http://www.enhansoft.com/

Funnily enough after posting here i thought the same thing and did post on connect, but it's all quiet on the western front. Thanks for responding.Matt Summer

The (only) other issue to worry about (to my knowledge) is that hardware and software inventory on these systems will all kick off at the same time because they will initially be based on the agent installation time: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633275.aspx. I'm not sure of the best way to handle this though. Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | Twitter @JasonSandys Just a thought, but apply a local policy to reseed the inventory time, script can randomise to create some skew in inventory taking place

The (only) other issue to worry about (to my knowledge) is that hardware and software inventory on these systems will all kick off at the same time because they will initially be based on the agent installation time: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633275.aspx. I'm not sure of the best way to handle this though. Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | Twitter @JasonSandys Just a thought, but apply a local policy to reseed the inventory time, script can randomise to create some skew in inventory taking place