I'm busy putting together our VDI infrastructure, a mix of shared desktop (RDSH) RemoteApp, App-V and Pooled Win8.1 desktops and have found an annoying facet of the automatic naming system. The underlying OS is Server 2012.
Let's say I have setup three machines, Pooled1, Pooled2 and Pooled3 by setting the prefix as "Pooled" and the Suffix as 1. I have recreated each of these three machines twice as the template image develops. If I now go to add another pooled desktop to the collection, it is created as Pooled10. Even though Pooled4 to Pooled9 have never existed, every time the virtual desktop collection members are recreated the counter is being incremented even though the existing machine names are reused.
Is there a way to stop this behaviour or, if not, where is the suffix counter held?
Many thanks
Angus Macdonald
Let's say I have setup three machines, Pooled1, Pooled2 and Pooled3 by setting the prefix as "Pooled" and the Suffix as 1. I have recreated each of these three machines twice as the template image develops. If I now go to add another pooled desktop to the collection, it is created as Pooled10. Even though Pooled4 to Pooled9 have never existed, every time the virtual desktop collection members are recreated the counter is being incremented even though the existing machine names are reused.
Is there a way to stop this behaviour or, if not, where is the suffix counter held?
Many thanks
Angus Macdonald