Reprovisioning at log-off fails with ‘No action required’ message

Hi all,

My company is still in the process of deploying a vWorkspace (7.1) VDI solution in combination with Hyper-V R2 and SCVMM. We have come a long way and almost all functionality seems to be working fine however reprovisioning of a VDI desktop fails with the message: ‘No action required’.

Our setup: we have created a Windows 7 desktop group within vWorkspace. The Windows 7 VDI desktops are deployed using rapid provisioning and depend on Hyper-V differencing disks. We have configured the log-off action on the computer group to reprovision the computer after the user logs off. When we test this behavior the VDI desktop logs off successfully and vWorkspace intiates a reprovision action. This takes about a minute or so after which the reprovision action gives a task failure with the message ‘No action required’.

The strange thing is: if we manually reprovision a single VDI desktop within the same computer group reprovisioning works just fine and reprovisions the VDI desktop as expected! The only difference here is that we are able to specify the existing parent VHD disk as source for the differencing disk clone. This should however, according to the vWorkspace console, also be the default behavior if you configure reprovisioning as the default log-off action on the computer group level.

Has anyone seen similar behavior using vWorkspace and SCVMM/Hyper-V R2? Are we missing an additional configuration step? Or should the current configuration be sufficient?

Any thoughts on this one would be greatly appreciated!

Tom