SCCM Agent and XenDesktop
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
July 12th, 2011 7:06am

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
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July 12th, 2011 9:12am

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
July 12th, 2011 9:45am

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