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Default User Profile Customization

Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Virtual Desktops with VMware View Applied Best Practices

Complete the default profile

After all require changes have been made under the local administrator account, sysprep must be

run again to copy the account over the default user account. Assuming the sysprep.xml file

created previously is located in C:\windows\system32\sysprep and is named sysprep.xml the

sys

tem can be resealed by running C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize

/oobe /shutdown /unattend:C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.xml.

This causes Windows to copy the administrator profile over the default user profile and shut

down. Now any user logging into the virtual machine will inherit the changes made to the

default user profile. The default user profile can also be copied to a network share if so desired.

Post Installation

After the user configuration is complete; perform before a disk cleanup, defrag the hard drive,

and take a snapshot of the virtual machine to deploy the linked clones.

Disk cleanup

Run the disk cleanup wizard to find and delete any files that have accumulated in the image that

do not absolutely have to be present in the image.

To perform a disk clean up:

1. Select the C:\ drive and right-click.

2. Select Properties > General tab.

3. Click Disk Cleanup.

4. Remove all files that do not need to be part of the image.

Defrag the hard drive

The golden image should have its disk defragmented before being used for image deployment.

N ote: N EVER defragment depl oyed virtual d esktops.

Do not defragment deployed virtual desktops for the following reasons:

♦ Defragging a drive creates a very high I/O overhead and can quickly cause sufficient I/O to

the shared storage to cause performance issues.

♦ If the VHDs are thinly allocated, defragmenting the virtual machine hard drive will cause the

virtual machine hard disk to quickly expand in size. For example, running defragmentation

on a virtual machine that was using only 600 MB of space after deployment can balloon up

to 4 GB or more of allocated space.

To defragment the hard drive:

1. Select the C:\ drive and right-click.

2. Select Properties > Tools tab.

3. Click Defragment now.

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