VDOT scripted action - updated?

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Travis Lamming

Hey guys, does anyone know how we could implement the updated Virtual Desktop Optimization tool to run with scripted actions?

We've used the old one but I do not see any windows 11 specific scripted action, and it appears to be written differently than the script that VDOT has if you'd install it off of their Github.

Does the nerdio version pull the updates from the Github, or is it written in such a way that the services etc removed do not change over time? The reason I ask is because the script in nerdio is different than the one off of the Github, and they are adding windows 11 services to remove as time goes on.

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Travis Lamming

I noticed that Nerdio Manager from Enterprise has a checkbox to do the same thing. Could we get something like that for the MSP product?

Its hard to read but the checkbox says "apply virtual desktop optimizations"

We would like to be able to edit this a bit, maybe keep windows calculator and notepad, but besides that, the changes they make are usually worthwhile to remove.

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DStephenson

Nice find, Travis. Do you know if you can get the scripted action commands that the preview feature is doing in NME so we can put it into our own scripted actions in NMM as a bandaid until we get the same preview feature?

I did see this "Windows 11 Misc. Optimizations" scripted action in the NMM-SE Repo, but it looks like it doesn't have too much in the way of optimizations, yet. Maybe if we can get the stuff from NME and combine it with the NMM-SE stuff, we can get a pretty awesome scripted action. 🤞

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Travis Lamming

Hey Dave,

Thanks! I took that screenshot from one of their YouTube tutorials on NME, hoping they could assist us MSP guys with an updated version.

I do have a misc script running, but VDOT might already have the Misc optimization.

I'd be interested to see if Nerdio could make this tool a permanent feature like NME. We all know that user to CPU density is key in cost savings.

 

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DStephenson
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Haha. Tricky, tricky, Travis.😆
Yes, hopefully someone from the NMM or NME teams can help us out with getting an updated VDOT script.

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Philipp Mair

Hi, just wanted to if there's an updated script for the VDOT? The latest version I see in NMM is "Virtual Desktop Optimizations (20H2)".

By the way the script is build, it shouldn't be an issue to modify it but maybe someone has done this already?

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Travis Lamming
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Hey DStephenson  Any ideas if we can get an updated vdot script for windows 11 etc? Really helps make things snappier! Ive created my own but doest seem to work right as a scripetd action, some things seem to have to be run interactively due to admin rights. 

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Dave Stephenson

Hey, Travis, I know we've had some discussions internally about updating the scripts for the VDOT stuff, but where the latest version is so customizable, see Virtual Desktop Automation Tool, it'd be a bit difficult to implement a scalable optimization script that would appeal to the masses.

It's possible that we could do something with Shell Apps that just references the latest updates from the VDOT repo, and lets you customize it per account with variables, but I don't know if that will be flexible enough without needing to maintain multiple versions of the Shell App.

Out of curiosity, what problems are you running into that require admin rights?
Do you still run into problems if you utilize credentials in the script?

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