Anyone experiencing startmenuexperiencehost.exe cr...
# citrix-vadm
Marco Zimmermann
10/15/2026, 10:54 AMAnyone experiencing startmenuexperiencehost.exe crashing (and startmenu doenst open or massive delayed) on Windows Server 2025 with October Updates (AV Defender)?
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Christoph Mages
10/16/2026, 5:56 AMHey Marco,
Silly question on my part. Have you already set that key?
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First display of the Start menu is delayed in a remote desktop session on a Windows Server 2025-based RDSH server - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
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Marco Zimmermann
10/16/2026, 6:48 AMthere are no silly questions!
Thanks a lot, did a dozen of 25 deployments and never had problems. Will try it asap :)
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Marco Zimmermann
10/16/2026, 8:53 AMi just got the next issue, that i cannot install fslogix, as the fslogix service does not start after install and runs in 120000ms timeout.
All my installations run automated from scratch.
Just found this on reddit:
On our master image (at login) we're seeing
"Please wait for the gpsvc" and
"Please wait for the Local Session Manager"
During a restart (again on our master image) we are seeing the VM hang at "Notifying Services the Windows is shutting down" and "Shutting down Update Orchestrator Service."
It never actually restarts until we perform a hard reset. Uninstalling the October update resolves the issue.
reddit.com/r/OmnissaEUC/…/october_update_kb5127648_causing_startuprestart?…
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Christoph Mages
10/16/2026, 8:59 AMYou still use the MS recommended exclusions (for defender)?
# ProcessesAdd-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxsvc.exe", "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxccd.exe", "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxccds.exe"# DriversAdd-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxdrv.sys", "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxdrvvt.sys", "$env:ProgramFiles\FSLogix\Apps\frxccd.sys"# Container files (local temp + your share; add Cloud Cache paths if used)Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$env:TEMP\*.VHD","$env:TEMP\*.VHDX", "$env:windir\TEMP\*.VHD","$env:windir\TEMP\*.VHDX", "\\server\share\*\*.VHD","\\server\share\*\*.VHDX", "\\server\share\*\*.VHD.lock","\\server\share\*\*.VHDX.lock", "\\server\share\*\*.VHD.meta","\\server\share\*\*.VHDX.meta", "\\server\share\*\*.VHD.metadata","\\server\share\*\*.VHDX.metadata"m
Marco Zimmermann
10/16/2026, 10:02 AMi normaly dont care about exclusions while creating the master, as these come once the defender is onboarded to mde.
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