Microsoft Application Virtualization 5 - Reporting

Question

We have Configured Microsoft Application Virtualization 5 on Non-persistent Desktops using Xendesktop 7.5 MCS
The Users are able to launch a Virtual Desktop and the appv client connects to publishing server and synchronizies the applications permission to user.
User is able to launch applications and after the usage they logoff there virtual desktops
When the User logs off the changes on the non-persistent desktop are lost and with it we are lossing the appv-reporting information.
Following is set as a Group Policy "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Reporting\Report Server"
Reporting URL : Our reporting server url
Reporting time : 16
Delay reporting for the random minutes : 15
Repeat reporting for every (days) :1
Data Cache Limit : 20
Data Block Size : 65536
So any user who happens to be online at 4PM there appv reporting data is uploaded to the database other wise its lost.
Ideally we would like to upload the appv report data durring the user logoff.
There is a Powershell command Send-AppvClientReport it does push the data to database but requires Administrative Previleges.
Is there way we can permission the send-AppvClientReport to be able to run from user context so we can run as a group policy when the user loggs off ?
Or is ther any other way we can save the reporting data and upload to reporting database ?

Answer 1

Hi Raj,
It appears that Microsoft themselves are using scheduled task to update the reports if you used the group policy. You can see it if you run scheduled tasks as administrator and navigate to Microsoft\AppV\Reporting. The task executes powershell.exe with the
following command:
-NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command "&{import-module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Virtualization\Client\AppvClient\AppvClient.psd1'; Send-AppvClientReport -NetworkCostAware -DeleteOnSuccess}"
What I did is I used group policy preferences to create similar task to run at my own schedule with additional trigger of winlogon event id 7002 (logoff). I had to use XML to create the task. Here is an example:
<TaskV2 clsid="{D8896631-B747-47a7-84A6-C155337F3BC8}" name="send-appvclientreport" image="2" userContext="0" removePolicy="0" changed="2014-10-08 14:13:02" uid="{A0DE6673-2FBE-4E03-A753-92DD1A9D2F6A}"><Properties action="U" name="send-appvclientreport" runAs="S-1-5-18" logonType="Password"><Task version="1.2"><RegistrationInfo><Author>SOMEUSERACCOUNT</Author><Description></Description></RegistrationInfo><Principals><Principal id="Author"><UserId>S-1-5-18</UserId><LogonType>Password</LogonType><RunLevel>LeastPrivilege</RunLevel></Principal></Principals><Settings><IdleSettings><Duration>PT5M</Duration><WaitTimeout>PT1H</WaitTimeout><StopOnIdleEnd>false</StopOnIdleEnd><RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle></IdleSettings><MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy><DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries><StopIfGoingOnBatteries>false</StopIfGoingOnBatteries><AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate><StartWhenAvailable>true</StartWhenAvailable><AllowStartOnDemand>false</AllowStartOnDemand><Enabled>true</Enabled><Hidden>false</Hidden><ExecutionTimeLimit>PT1H</ExecutionTimeLimit><Priority>7</Priority></Settings><Triggers><CalendarTrigger><StartBoundary>2014-10-08T14:06:28Z</StartBoundary><Enabled>true</Enabled><ScheduleByDay><DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval></ScheduleByDay><ExecutionTimeLimit>PT30M</ExecutionTimeLimit><Repetition><Interval>PT1H</Interval><StopAtDurationEnd>false</StopAtDurationEnd></Repetition></CalendarTrigger>
<EventTrigger><Enabled>true</Enabled><Subscription>&lt;QueryList&gt;&lt;Query Id="0" Path="System"&gt;&lt;Select Path="System"&gt;*[System[Provider[@Name='Winlogon'] and EventID=7002]]&lt;/Select&gt;&lt;/Query&gt;&lt;/QueryList&gt;</Subscription></EventTrigger>
</Triggers><Actions><Exec><Command>powershell.exe</Command><Arguments>-NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command "&amp;{import-module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Virtualization\Client\AppvClient\AppvClient.psd1'; Send-AppvClientReport -NetworkCostAware -DeleteOnSuccess}"</Arguments></Exec>
</Actions></Task></Properties></TaskV2>
If you cannot copy/paste the xml, you can create a new scheduled task. You probably will not be able to select system as the user to execute and perhaps will not see winlogon for the triger. Pick any other values. Once the task is created, copy it from group
policy and paste in notepad. Edit there the account to S-1-5-18 and the Subscription tag to winlogon.
Hope this helps