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Silently Installing and Automating the Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM) RAM Disk Feature

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Updated 17th November 2025

I previously wrote about The best free for commercial use RAM Disk that works perfectly with Desktop Virtualisation. This is a follow on from that article that will focus on:

  • The installation of Arsenal Image Mounter (AIM)
  • The automation for the creation of a RAM Disk
  • The challenges I experienced with the creation of the RAM Disk
  • How to deploy it
  • The scripts themselves

Here are further articles to demonstrate the use cases:

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Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Post Install Script

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Updated 18th July 2025

Whilst some of these items can be excluded from the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation, checking and managing them in a post install script ensures we have consistency between all installations and VDA versions. All these actions need to take place in the base image, hence why they are managed in a script and not via Group Policies. This script has been built from years of lessons learnt and developing best practices. It will…

  • Disable the Telemetry Service
  • Disable the VDA Ceip Service
  • Disable the CtxAppVService (from 7.14 to 7.15 CU4/1906)
  • Disable the App-V Package Cleanup (from 7.15 CU5/1909)
  • Disable the Smart Card Services and Launcher
  • Implement the Citrix Desktop Service (BrokerAgent) Scheduled Task
  • Configure the UviProcessExcludes
  • Configure the CtxHooks
  • Configure the UPMEvent
  • Update the BrokerAgent.exe.config file
  • Enable the SaveRsopToFile registry value if it exists

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