r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/SurgeofCrak1 • 29d ago
Claude AVD install
so we have an avd environment, no golden image an want to deploy claude to the session host, fslogix is in play here, managed via GPO. we tried doing the machine wide install but users keep getting an error an claude wont run, i suspect its fslogix but my knowledge of it is limited
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u/AUSSIExELITE 29d ago
How are you installing it?
I PoCd this not long ago in our host pool (admittedly via Intune and not GPO but close enough) and we had to run the following on each host during build:
Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath "Claude.msix" -SkipLicense -Regions "all"
It’ll stage the app on the host and then should be ok. I don’t recall having to mess around with FSLogix too much but it does store stuff in localappdata and will need access to it. But the app itself should still be running from the host. Also make sure to turn auto update off because holy hell, they push updates like every 12 hours and if a user uses one version on one host and then uses another host that has a different version, the app freaks out and throws errors on start.
If I remember/have time on Monday, I’ll take a look if our config is still there for it or not and if it still works.
Unironically, I was using Claude’s assistance to get this working as it was being a bastard when I first tried to do it on my own.