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The Case of the Missing PowerBI Credentials

By Ryan Dorman | June 9, 2024June 15, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I migrated a user from AWS Workspaces to AVD to improve performance on POwerBI queries. The migration did indeed significantly increase performance but it also introduced an odd issue: When opening the PowerBI Desktop file the Snowflake credentials store in the file “could not be decrypted.” Every. Time. This behavior was not seen on AWS. Most Googling on this topic talked about clearing caches and re-entering credentials but none of that worked. There was also…

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AVD Password Prompt Redux

By Ryan Dorman | May 1, 2024May 1, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I’ve moved on to a new AVD setup. I went with full cloud: Entra Joined, Intune managed and page blobs for FSLogix. Fantastic. I started to run into the same issue I had in a previous post where I talked about the roamIdentity FSLogix issue. There is a HUGE warning on the Microsoft site that you cannot roam WAM tokens when you are using Intune so turning that on was not an option. The AAD…

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OneDrive + AVD + FSLogix = Password Prompts

By Ryan Dorman | April 27, 2023May 27, 2024 by Ryan Dorman

I recently setup a few AVD pools for internal and customer use. I was running into an issue where OneDrive login would not persist across logins. After every sign in to the session host I had to re-authenticate. Then I built another pool that was even worse – Office activation wouldn’t stick either. If you have ever gone done the Google rabbit hole of WAM, ADAL, Office Shared Computer Activation, License Token roaming and so…