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Horizon 7.11 - Windows 10 1909 - Linked Clone Pool One of our applications on our Horizon desktops is being cut off from viewing it fully. It is not for everyone but for some Mac Laptop users with a resolution of 1440 x 900.  We noticed that the Horizon desktop scaling is set to 175%. Obviously changing the scaling back to 100% or closer, would most likely fix the issue but the display scaling is locked and says "Some settings re managed by your system administrator. A custom scale factor is set." I cannot figure out where that custom scale factor is set. Not on the master image where it is is 100% and a custom scale factor is not set. So it must somewhere in VMware settings. In the Horizon client options selecting or de-selecting Allow Display Scaling has no effect. By default our clients Display are set to All Monitors, but changing to Full Screen does not seem to change scaling. On the master image Video card settings we have Specify Custom Settings in order to select 2 displays. 3D is not enabled. I also tried placing this setting back to Automatic and recomposing but it had not effect. When researching this I discovered quite a few complaints bout "A custom scale factor is set" but it was not VDI, just normal Windows machines. Help!

Horizon 7.11 - Automatic Linked Clone Pool - Windows 10 1909 I previously posted this but I had no discussion at all, and maybe because it sounds crazy or was not understood, so this time I am including an image, becasue  a picture is worth a thousand words! Notice in the pic, there are four console sessions to various desktops. They are all from the local administrator, and all were started at the same time. I have no idea what causes this. No one is using the console for these desktops. The console is only used to login to the golden image. The only way to get rid of these sessions are to restart the desktop. Logging off the user is not available for these.  When I look back through the event logs for this date, I can only see the last time that I restarted the machines in order to kill the sessions. The start of these sessions is not recorded in the event log, but they occur a few hours after I restart the machines. I am going to reboot these this evening. I am pretty sure they will be re-connected tomorrow.

Horizon 7.11, Windows 10 1909 -- automatic linked clones - FSLogix I built a new Golden image my usual way, following the VMware guide, using the Optimization fling. The last thing I do is customize the start menu tile layout. I arrange the tiles on the golden image, use powershell - export-startlayout, then import-startlayout -layoutpath C:\layoutmodification.xml   -mountpath c:\.  This imports the layoutmodification.xml into the default users Appdata ......shell folder. It worked as expected the first time after I composed. But I needed to make some changes so I modified the tiles and repeated the process. However, on the recomposed VM's the tile layout did not change to the new modification. I have tried this several times, I have made sure to delete the layoutmodification.xml all together, I have also tried deleting the registry entry HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount\* but no mater what I do, when I recompose, the VM's have the menu tile layout from the first modification. I even tried deleting the FXLogix profile container thinking the configuration might be saved in the profile somewhere. So I have not yet figured out why I cannot reset or modify the start menu layout. I have two other Win 10 1909 golden images where this works as expected, if I need to change the tile layout I simply arrange the tiles, do a new export and import of the xml, and it works great.

Group, I  need to determine the total session hours of all the users in a desktop pool over a period of time. The reason is that I have been tasked with looking at Windows Virtual Desktop in comparison, and since WVD is cost based on per hour use. We do not have any management tools like vRealize. I assume if this is possible it would be a SQL query against the DB, but I am not savvy enough to figure it out, although I have tried. Horizon 7.11. Thanks!