This tip is a pretty simple one, but can be confusing to some. For example, when a delete fails, it’s natural to want to just click delete again. To that point, in the past, I have seen virtual desktops go into the ‘Error’ state when deletions or recomposures fail. For example, a recompose failed because it couldn’t join the domain due to the DHCP range running out of addresses, and I know what went wrong and just want to do the operation again.

Trying the same operation again won’t do anything. Getting back to a good state, assuming the root cause has hopefully been resolved, is accomplished via a simple refresh:

We can, assuming deletion was our goal, then re-delete the desktop and it should do so cleanly: