Hello, we have deployed a non-persistent VDI infrastructure on Windows 11 24H2, but we are currently experiencing an issue with the search bar in the taskbar: the menu opens, but we are not getting any response from it. We have tried rebuilding the search index and setting up a user GPO to prevent internet searches. We have also tried repairing the appX Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience | Reset-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience | Reset-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS | Reset-AppxPackage

Do you get the same behaviour if you search directly from the Start Menu?

yes, same result, on the master we didin't have this problems. For better comprehension, we didin't have fslogix, we have WEM and UPM profil

Interesting. We are seeing the same thing - master is fine, but when you start spinning images, the search breaks. Do you notice the Search process is going into a Suspended state, and if you kill a process called Resume, it starts working again?

at this moment, no, you show this with proc explorer ? or task manager?

Task Manager. When it is not working, SearchHost or whatever it is called shows as Suspended

not for me

Hmmm. OK. Perhaps not the same issue then.

What profile solution? Have you enabled the roaming of the search db?

No profile solution for us, they're fully persistent instances. OP said UPM if I remembered correctly

Yes for us, we have upm profile on this VDI. No this option is not set

Did you try this GPO - Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Search Open “Don’t search the web or display web results in Search”. Set the policy to Enabled.

Yes I tried this, but not bether, I open a case on citrix support, I tell you if we find something We try without citrix component (RDP) and the search bar work

Microsoft seem to think that should fix it - not holding my breath though

Yes, in RDP it seems to work for us

Looks like this is a known issue https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home?#/windowsreleasehealth/knownissues/:/issue/WI1107508

Out of interest, what state is the App Readiness service in? If it's not running, start it and see if that makes a difference.

Will let you know when I next get an image with the issue.

Hi, at this time, no respons from citrix support, but, we try something, on the master we make this action: Windows 11 : désactiver la recherche Bing dans le menu Démarrer It's un local gpp policie and it work for us. We try with GPO policies on domain, but i think the AD compatibilty is not optimise for VDI W11

Thanks @WEBER Jonathan. I am having the same search bar issue with CVAD 2507 and Windows 11 24H2. I did a quick test with the "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" registry key, and that fixed the issue.

Details please???

For my test all I did was: •

New-Item -Path HKCU:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

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New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer -Name DisableSearchBoxSuggestions -PropertyType DWord -Value 1

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Stop-Process -Name explorer -Force

to restart explorer

@J Burns yo push this with powershell or GPO ?

So far, I just tried quickly while in a session for the policy and reg test.

@J Burns, nice work. So will you be running this as a logon script?

@J Burns at this time, you didn't us regedit key but just a logon script ? With GPO or WEM ?

I’ve been testing out just using a logon script with GPO to restart the SearchHost and StartMenuExperienceHost processes. I’m still testing while working on other items for a CVAD 2507 upgrade, but I haven’t had the search bar issue again since implementing that.

Fix is on the way from MS

This morning on a master...

So you still have the issue?

with the local policy, no I test with the new update from MS now on this master