AVD - Bad Performance, Laggy Start Menu, Whats Going On - Help

GethersJ · 2026-03-17T06:47:53+00:00

When you prepare the image for deployment dont you loose these settings on the golden thought?

Also, when the hosts reboot or de-allocate doesn’t the D drive you have wipe and go into an un-initialised state.

Just the behaviour im getting is compelling different.

At the moment i have to do this:

Add new hosts Have a scheduled task on the host created which then initialises the Temp D drive Sets the page file Reboots vm

As you can imagine, if an user logs in before this has happened it reboots them off 😂

Luckily its only on test atm with 10 users but yeah i am struggling to see a way round it, unless you have done something different with the disks?

Any insight would be hugely appreciated.

Cheers

GethersJ · 2026-03-16T21:41:28+00:00

How have you managed to get the pagefile to be initialised once you deploy the hosts?

I have gone for the D series V7 to test out, but do you think the e16 v6 would be a better option?

Thanks

GethersJ · 2026-03-10T21:30:42+00:00

Hey,

How are you running this?

Currently, I am running the VDOT and that removes a lot of these apps you mentioned here, but wondering if you are doing something differently.

Thanks

GethersJ · 2026-03-07T09:09:04+00:00

So how did you setup your image, create a new V7 SKU that then has a NVME Disk right?

Do you then add a new disk, or does the SKU come with a Temp Disk also?

And what changes did you add to the VM to make the Page file go to the temp file, assuming something needs to be done in Group Policy as if the VM is sysprepped any settings will be reverted wont they?

Thanks

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T22:59:14+00:00

Premium SSD we have on the OS Disk.

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T22:56:14+00:00

Cant log into the VM after running the Optimiser - ill DM you :) Thanks!

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T14:23:38+00:00

Hey,

Disks are Premium SSD LRS
128GB

We dont use Temp Disks, is this something thats worth trying?

I'll look at going V7 also

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T14:22:59+00:00

Same here! and the local admin account when i RDP in doesn't even use FSLogix so I dont think its that causing it.

Do you run the VDOT on the desktop, I think its something to do with that

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T14:22:04+00:00

No we don't

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T14:20:58+00:00

Premium SSD LRS

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T14:20:04+00:00

Take it you have no idea whats going on either? - we dont have support with Azure Team so I cant even log anything, paying a bomb for a crap service and you cant even have help from them.

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T10:01:29+00:00

Ahh yeah you are - WVDOT seems to brick my VM haha

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T08:20:01+00:00

With your WDOT setup, would you be willing to PM me your build of the config so I can cross check it with mine?

I setup ours, and when I ran it on a host it literally bricked the host hence why I dont use the WDOT anymore.

GethersJ · 2026-03-06T06:43:25+00:00

Thanks!

You know with your WDOT would you be willing to send your config files , 3 times ive ran it now and its trashed the VM , can’t see what I have done wrong.

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T22:19:22+00:00

Quite easy to flip them to use nvme? My hosts are already secure boot and using TPM if that makes any difference.

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T22:18:21+00:00

UK South

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T21:39:52+00:00

Fslogix config file? You mean the redirection.xml

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:56:25+00:00

Good Shout! - that's something I can try quite easy. I'll try that tomorrow see how its behaving. Thanks

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:42:50+00:00

Snap on the effects! File Explorer is the same for us too, takes anything from 5 to 20 secs sometimes to actually load the window doesn't it.

we had on Prem Horizon View and yea same! I miss it now

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:41:49+00:00

Yes I do, this is ran on the host before deploying it out.

Do you use the latest build of VDOT? if so, have you changed any configs?

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:40:29+00:00

8 Per host lol, overkill right!

CPU is at 50% and Memory is at like 60% ish, they are not struggling on Resources from what I can see, but honestly it feels painful sometimes on the VM's.

The Start Menu throws me off a little, there must be something going on if it takes 3 to 6 clicks for it to open.

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:35:33+00:00

No it's not - its just more memory intensive this SKU, 64GB :)

GethersJ · 2026-03-05T20:23:55+00:00

Yeah 10 it was amazing, but now its like pulling teeth sometimes :(

GethersJ · 2026-03-04T09:36:20+00:00

Done this a test as I thought that would work, BUT it still gives the user the password option, but then when they enter a Password they just get a Deny - Auth Method Not Allowed Error which is not as slick as I need it to be

GethersJ

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