RDS broken start menu

[free780]

Just in case anyone else gets this issue.

 

We have 14 RDS Hosts. This issue has been intermittent. It seemed to be resolved pre spectre patches and then returned. I beleive its when a user changes which host they are on. User profile disks also contribute to this issue. It occured with 1 user with administrator rights logged on so I dont believe its a performance/load issue.

 

When it does happen %localappdata%\Packages only has 1 or 2 folders present. It should have 15.

 

I wrote this script

 

 

 

$packages = Get-ChildItem -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Packages"

 

if($packages.count -lt 14){

 

$apps = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path "C:\Windows\SystemApps","C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel","C:\Windows\PrintDialog","C:\Windows\MiracastView" -Include "AppXManifest.xml"

 

Foreach($app in $apps){

Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$app" -Verbose}

}

Else{

$null}

 

This should correct he issue it needs to run in the user context.

 

Please reply/thank if this resolves the issue for you.

 

I seem to remember roaming profiles on 1607 suffered the same issue.

Edited May 18, 2018 by free780