VDI Workstation Primary Display reverts back after logoff/reboot

[cradkins]

Good Morning,

We were able to configure the GPO and Registry settings documented in the link below to allow us to change which display was the primary on our Windows 10 VM's that use multiple monitors.  The issue we're running into is that whenever we sign off/on or reboot the VM, the primary display reverts back to display 1.  Is there a way to make the VM to remember what the primary display was after signing off and back on instead of it reverting back to its original state?

VMware Knowledge Base

[agalliasistju]

cradkins​

To clarify a few things that hopefully will help others help you:

1. What are your physical clients? OS?

2. Are the VMs Windows 10?  What version 1709, 1803, etc...?

3. What GPO's have you configured thus far?

4. Are your VMs thick or thin?

[cradkins]

To clarify a few things that hopefully will help others help you:

1. What are your physical clients? OS?  We're using Mac Mojave and Windows PC's, Windows 10 1803.

2. Are the VMs Windows 10?  What version 1709, 1803, etc...?  Our VM's are Full Clone Persistent Windows 10 1809.

3. What GPO's have you configured thus far?

Computer Configuration (Enabled) > Policies >

Administrative Templates

Control Panel/Personalization

Policy	Setting
Do not display the lock screen	Enabled

Control Panel/Regional and Language Options

Policy	Setting
Allow input personalization	Disabled

System/Logon

Policy	Setting
Show first sign-in animation	Disabled

System/User Profiles

Policy	Setting
Turn off the advertising ID	Enabled

VMware Blast

Policy	Setting
Configure clipboard redirection	Enabled
Configure clipboard redirection Enabled in both directions

VMware View Agent Configuration/Agent Configuration

Policy	Setting
Toggle Display Settings Control	Disabled

Windows Components/Application Compatibility

Policy	Setting
Turn off Application Telemetry	Enabled

Windows Components/Cloud Content

Policy	Setting
Do not show Windows tips	Enabled
Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences	Enabled

Windows Components/Delivery Optimization

Policy	Setting
Download Mode	Enabled
Download Mode: HTTP only (0)

Windows Components/Internet Explorer

Policy	Setting
Specify default behavior for a new tab	Enabled
New tab behavior about:blank

Windows Components/Microsoft Edge

Policy	Setting
Send all intranet sites to Internet Explorer 11	Enabled

Windows Components/OneDrive

Policy	Setting
Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage	Enabled

Windows Components/Search

Policy	Setting
Allow Cortana	Disabled
Do not allow web search	Enabled

Windows Components/Windows Mail

Policy	Setting
Turn off Windows Mail application	Enabled

Preferences

Windows Settings

Registry

NoDispCPL (Order: 1)

General

Action

Update

Properties

Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key path	SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name	NoDispCPL
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x0 (0)

Common

Options

Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	No
Apply once and do not reapply

4. Are your VMs thick or thin? Thin provisioned.

[bjohn]

off topic... I thought 1809 wasn't supported?