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Unattended Runs on AVD fail occasionally - Cannot create session to execute desktop flow run. User needs to have Remote Desktop permissions.

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Posted on by DyonnBakker 2

Hi, 

 

Did anyone encounter this issue before. 
When running unattended on AVD's, there is a strange behavior. 
Sometimes the desktop flows run without issues, but also there are times that they fail on the machine with the following error: Cannot create session to execute desktop flow run. User needs to have Remote Desktop permissions.

If remote desktop permissions are disabled, i would expect that this would not work at all. 

KR

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    You are correct. This error should only appear when the user does not have RDP permissions on the machine, but if they didn't have it, it would always fail. Are you perhaps running this on a machine group with several machines? Maybe it's not set up properly on all of them?

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    DyonnBakker 2 on at

    Thanks for the response. 
    No it is not connected to a machine group, directly to a single machine with a direct connection. 
    Tried it with 2 different AVD's, on both i have the same behavior, one moment they do run the other they don't with the error mentioned before. All runs with the same user. I am double checking with the AVD team on the machine configuration, but this makes no sense to me. 



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