Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool
The
Send-LinkedCloneRefresh
command is used to refresh either a specific linked-clone desktop or an entire desktop pool.
How to do it…
The following example command selects all the desktops in the
FinanceLC1
pool and schedules them to refresh at the indicated time. In addition, the operation will continue even if an error occurs but will not force users to log off:Get-Pool -Pool_id "FinanceLC1" | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule "2014-07-25 18:00" -StopOnError $false -ForceLogoff $false
To refresh just a single desktop, you can use a simpler version of the command that requires only the machine ID and the schedule:
Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -Machine_id (Get-DesktopVM -Name "ViewLC0001").machine_id -schedule "2014-07-25 18:00"
This command will refresh only the desktop named
ViewLC0001
.
How it works…
When using the
Send-LinkedCloneRefresh
command to refresh an entire pool, the command requires us to specify each desktop within the pool...