UPD (User Profile Disk) doesn’t save data to profile

UPD is a nice addition to VDI environments. Unfornatly, it’s not very well documented.
Recently i discovered that UPDs didn’t save any application settings/etc. It was a “monday all week long” scenario.

The first thing i discovered was that I via GPO restricted silent writes to registry – so this was changed to be allowed.

Second thing was to redirect everything to the UPD in the VDI environment.

I still wasn’t able to save any application settings.
And after some try-and-error, you NEED to recreate the UPDs to make the settings be applied. So delete the old .vpdx-UPD file(s) and let the system recreate them.
Another thing with UPDs is that folder (eg. “my documents”) need to be UPD-enabled to work with the normal GPO redirection. Pretty unlogic if you ask me.

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