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Can i use a different c:\temp folder for each user in Azure Virtual Desktop?

Jaime Ben David 25 Reputation points
2024-04-02T09:28:39.1+00:00

Hi

I am migrating to Azure, and users will connect to the environment using Azure Virtual Desktop.

One of the apps need access to a c:\temp folder. This folder should be different for each user. Does that work that way in Azure Virtual Desktop? What about if it's designed as Multi-session?

Thanks

Jaime

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  1. kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2024-04-03T19:01:59.09+00:00

    Thank you again for following up, @Jaime Ben David !

    I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to "Accept " the answer.

    Issue:

    I am migrating to Azure, and users will connect to the environment using Azure Virtual Desktop. One of the apps need access to a c:\temp folder. This folder should be different for each user.

    Solution (provided by Jaime Ben David):

    In my case it has to be c:\temp because of a legacy app. So, i'll build a gpo that creates a temp folder for the user profile if it doesn't exist ( i.e c:\users<username>\temp) then build a symbolic link named c:\temp to point to that user's temp folder.

    If you have any other questions or are still running into more issues, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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  1. Jaime Ben David 25 Reputation points
    2024-04-02T16:16:17.7133333+00:00

    Thanks, got a good solution from ChatGPT :-)

    In my case it has to be c:\temp because of a legacy app. So, i'll build a gpo that creates a temp folder for the user profile if it doesn't exist ( i.e c:\users<username>\temp) then build a symbolic link named c:\temp to point to that user's temp folder.

    Jaime

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  2. kobulloc-MSFT 26,811 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2024-04-02T16:11:12.07+00:00

    Hello, @Jaime Ben David !

    Can I use different c:\temp folders for each user in Azure Virtual Desktop?

    You cannot use different c:\temp folders for each user in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) although you can use a subfolder in either the user's local profile or in %temp%.

    There can only be one folder with the same name on the c:\ drive (temp in this case). You can, however, have each user use their local profile as those are all unique however the path would have to be within that local profile (example: c:\users\"username"\documents\temp or something similar). A similar approach can be used with %temp%.

    The best approach is to see if the app can write to the %userprofile% variable so that it goes to each user's profile (it's against best practices to have users that have access to the C drive in multi-session environments).

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