Some GPO's fail to apply when elastic layering is enabled

With Elastic Layering Apps Only enabled, gpupdate /force may report an error while applying some group policies...

Adobe Acrobat PDF Maker Outlook Add-in not working when elastically layered.

Outlook add-in not working for Adobe PDF Maker. Attempting use Adobe Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro with one on the base image and the other as an elastic layer...

nVidia control panel fails to launch in platform layer or published image

When configuring a platform layer for a vGPU, the nVidia control panel may fail to launch. The driver may be working or it may fail with code 31 or code 43, but thenVidia control panel itself will not open. You may see an event in the Windows Application event log about nvcplui.exe crashing. The...

Best Practice: SFC(System File Checker) use in App Layering

Where to execute an sfc check? The best practice is to execute the SFC tool in the Gold Image, prior to creating your first OS Layer. This should ensure the future OS layers are free of Windows file corruption. When needed, a version can be removed and a new version created. Other options are, in...

UPM Roaming Profiles "Break" if App Layering Elastic Layering is Enabled

UPM roaming profiles "break" if enabling App Layering Elastic Layering feature. Can’t right click the start menu, can’t open programs, etc...

How to set the default size of the Elastic Layering writable volume

When Elastic Layering is enabled with or without User Layers, the boot disk is created with an extra 20GB as a second partition where the user writes will be stored. This is necessary to keep writes at a layer above the boot disk and any elastically assigned layers that might show up later. If yo...

FAQ: Login performance with Elastic Layers

Why are user logins with Elastic Layers enabled slower than normal logins on a non-EL image? Why are logins slower depending on how many Elastic Layer assignments a user has? Background: When you define an Image Template in the Layering Management Console LMC, you have to select the Elastic...

Elastic Layering Logs

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Citrix App Layering - User Layer Error "We were unable to attach your User Layer"

When end users log into a virtual machine with Elastic layering enabled, they see the error "We were unable to attach your User Layer. Any changes you make to application settings or data will not be saved. Be sure to save any work to a shared network location." Details: "Access to the path...

Error "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file referencing unirsd.sys

When trying to edit a layer or publish an image with any Elastic Layering option turned on basically, any operation where our filter drivers are involved, the machine will have a boot failure, referencing File: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\unirsd.sys, Status: 0xc0000428, Info: Windows cannot verify...

App Layering: PVS Cache Disks May Need to Be Larger with Elastic Layering

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Elastic layer not available, "no elastic layer assignments were specified"

After publishing an image with Elastic Layering enabled, when you try to connect to a session host, the layer doesn't show up and you get an error in the Application Log in Windows: "no elastic layer assignments were specified"...