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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:10 PM
For those of you who use an SCCM Task Sequence for VDA upgrades, are you using the /noresume switch? We're not, but we're also telling SCCM to manually kick off XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe post-reboot. Wondering if we should actually use this switch, even though I'm 99% sure that all it does is prevent the VDA installer from adding that .exe to the RunOnce entry in the registry. Troubleshooting some VDA upgrades that are failing around this particular step.
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Dennis Parker

05/25/2023, 7:30 PM
I don't use SCCM, and I didn't use the /noresume switch in my scripting for a long time and suddenly started having issues with the script with 2203 and had to add it. Started getting strange failures to install on some components without the switch.
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:30 PM
Damnit
I guess the next step is to add it.
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Dennis Parker

05/25/2023, 7:31 PM
Good luck.
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:36 PM
To be fair, we did have an issue with the VC++ component, and had to add a separate task to run that before installing the VDA.
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Rob Zylowski

05/25/2023, 7:47 PM
Yes Nick I think you should use the noresume then have sccm resume
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:48 PM
My only worry is that we've completed our test deployment, and all that's left is Prod. Kinda hard to change the install string now, especially when I really don't know if this is the issue. SCCM is already forcibly running the XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe locally post-reboot.
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Rob Zylowski

05/25/2023, 7:52 PM
The problem is its going to try twice I htink becasue its gonna start from the runonce and from sccm
But I guess if you had no issue you had no issues
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:55 PM
Good point about running twice. The issue would be a user logging in and that kicking off, when we need the admin account to handle it.
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Rob Zylowski

05/25/2023, 7:55 PM
If you do all the prereqs separately then you shouldn't need the run once continuation maybe that why your good
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 7:56 PM
It only runs when a user logs on, but with the SCCM TS, it's kicking off the exe when the device comes back online and checks in.
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Rob Zylowski

05/25/2023, 7:58 PM
yea that does sound like the issue
you woudl see without noresume
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Nick Panaccio

05/25/2023, 8:00 PM
I really wish the VDA upgrade process was smoother..............
hint hint
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Rob Zylowski

05/25/2023, 8:09 PM
yea i dont write code unfortunately Have given that feedback several times. Alot of the issue are thre prereqs and we dont really control those
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Jon Bucud

05/25/2023, 8:23 PM
Our CM guy has yet to get a repeatable/reliable CM task sequence...
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Nick Panaccio

05/26/2023, 10:46 AM
It's hard to judge this deployment because the environment we pushed to is a fucking mess.
Found our issue. We were using C:\ProgramData\Citrix\*XenDesktop*\XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe as the executable instead of C:\ProgramData\Citrix\*XenDesktopSetup*\XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe, as we copied our old 2203 CU2 TS to create this one. So I partially blame Citrix for changing that folder name. So, so dumb.
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Jon Bucud

05/26/2023, 3:38 PM
Thanks, highly likely we did the same as well. I'll our TS and poke our CM guy if I see the old folder!