Select the template you created for the image.Open the Horizon View Admin page and select “Desktops” under the inventory section.The below lines of code are what we placed in the Run Once section: 6. Provisioning Horizon ‘Commands to run once’ section Under the section “Workgroup or domain,” leave Workgroup selected. PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -file “C:\Temp\vdiDomainJoin.ps1”ģ.
Under the section “Commands to run once,” enter the following syntax:. Create VM Customization Specifications profile. Open the vCenter Management Page for the VDI Resource Cluster. Prepare the ‘VM Customization Specification Profile’ Within vCenter, right-click on the Gold ImageĤ. We are now finished with the Gold Image. On the Gold Image, open PowerShell and execute the following syntax:. Modify the sections in yellow to match your environment. This script should reside on the Gold Image Template. Copy the code contents from here, into the vdiDomainJoin.ps1 file and save. Create a file called vdiDomainJoin.ps1 and place it under C:\Temp. This blog post from PDQ has some great tips for encrypting credentials and securing passwords:Ĭreating AES key with random data and export to file:Ĭreating PSCredential object: 3. You can use the stored credential from any machine with any user as long as you know the AES Key used. When using a Key/SecureKey, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES – wiki link) encryption algorithm is used. Please note: If you need to join the Gold Image to the domain to propagate user privileges, it’s recommended that you place the Gold Image in an isolated OU, so you don’t have the local Administrator account stripped from the image. Create a folder on the Gold Image (C:\Temp). Ensure ’Remove 3rd Party Apps’ is unselected (optional). Ensure ‘Microsoft OneDrive’ is unselected (optional). Run VMware Optimization Tool on the Gold Image. 
Ensure you have a local Administrator account on the image. Build the clean Gold Image under the vCenter that manages your VDI Resource Cluster. Create vCenter Server Customization Specification profileĬheck out this detailed how-to that’ll walk you through the six steps of Horizon automated full clone provisioning: 1. Create vdiDomainJoin.ps1 PowerShell script and place it in the Gold Image. To achieve this, I walked the customer through these six steps in order: They wanted these Full Clone Virtual Machines to auto-join the domain, place the VM under a specific OU, and then remove the script from the local VM upon completion. They had a requirement to run Full Virtual Machines (Automated, Dedicated) for their developers. Recently, a customer asked me to help them with VMware Horizon ® automated full clone provisioning.
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