Announcing an Update to Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop
The most popular document on EUC Tech Zone, Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop, has been updated to include the most recent Windows OS versions. Windows 10 versions 1809, 1903, and 1909 have been added to the list of Tested Operating Systems.
This document has also been updated to correspond to the newly released update of the VMware OS Optimization Tool fling.
With this updated version of the OSOT, you no longer have to perform some of the tasks that were spelled out in the previous version of Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop. Indeed, this doc is 25 percent shorter than the previous version—for the PDF, that's 30 pages shorter!
Another change that accounts for the page count reduction is the removal of instructions for using Windows mandatory user profiles. In our testing, we found that this feature does not work reliably when used with Windows 10 version 1809 and later. We decided that, for consistency's sake, we would remove the recommendation for all versions. We found that login times are nearly equivalent if you use default user profiles instead of mandatory user profiles.
Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop provides step-by-step procedures for creating optimized images. These procedures include creating a VM, installing and configuring a Windows operating system, optimizing the OS, and installing the various VMware agents required for desktop pool deployment.
We also want to thank readers of the previous version for all their helpful comments and suggestions. Keep the feedback coming!
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Caroline Arakelian
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, End User Computing, VMware. Caroline started as a technical writer at VMware in 2006, working on the VMware Workstation 6 User's Manual, for which she won an STC (Society of Technical Communication) award. What can one do with a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Creative Writing – Poetry? One can discover a surprising affection for technology and happily make a good living communicating that zeal in the form of reference architectures and quick-start tutorials.
Hilko Lantinga
Staff Technical Marketing Architect, End User Computing, VMware. Hilko specializes on 3D, Horizon Windows Desktops & RDSH, Linux and Applications. Previously he was a Senior Consultant in VMware Professional Services, leading large-scale EUC deployments in EMEA and has 20+ years of experience in end-user computing.