I was looking for a way to be notified when provisioning would fail on floating-assignment pools with VMware View. When updating floating-assignment pools our operations teams would set the desktops to delete after log off instead of refresh. If we set it to delete on Friday afternoon and by Monday everyone would have the new image. This seemed like a great idea but sometimes we got caught with our pants down Monday morning. If the pool in question had errors, slowly all the desktops in the pool would be deleted and no one would be able to log in the morning. This effect did not make virtual desktops very popular. [Read more...]