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Jeremy Wheeler

I am an experienced Consulting Architect for VMware’s Professional Services Organization, End-user Computing specializing in VMware Horizon Suite product-line and SDDC. I have over 23 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to his past experience, I have a passion for technology and thrives on educating customers. Additionally, I have 10 years of hands-on virtualization experience deploying full-life cycle solutions using VMware, CITRIX, and Hyper-V. I also has 18 years of experience in computer programming in various languages ranging from basic scripting to C, C++, PERL, .NET, SQL, and PowerShell. I’ve received acclaim from several clients for my in-depth and varied technical experience and exceptional hands-on customer satisfaction skills. In February 2013, I received VMware’s Spotlight award for my outstanding persistence and dedication to customers and was nominated again in October of 2013. I was awarded 2015 – 2017 vEXPERT.

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Instant Clones and GPO Enforcement

Jeremy Wheeler
October 24, 2018December 7, 2020 1 min

One challenge a few of my customers have had lately is being able to leverage Instant Clones while keeping current GPOs enforced. The issue might happen when using Instant Clones. Horizon will create the final copy of the original VM, called a parent, which will be used to fork the running VMs. When a new Instant Clone is provisioned from a logoff operation, no reboot is done at the parent level; thus any new GPOs are not applied. To enforce new GPOs the following steps will resolve this problem:

1. Power-on the Gold Image
2. Create a DOS Batch file and place it in an accesable area, example C:\TEMP\enforce.bat

Example batch file:

@ECHO ON
echo N | gpupdate /force
EXIT

3. After creating the batch file, shut-down the Gold Image
4. Create a new snapshot
5. In the Horizon View Administrator console, when creating a pool or modifying a pool, you will need to specify the batch file that is located in the Gold Image.

SeattleICExample

That’s it! From this point going forward when an Instant Clone is created in this pool the script is executed during the provisioning process and will enforce GPOs.

 

 

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