Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine and select Open Console.
2 Log in to the Windows 7 or Windows 8 guest operating system as an administrator.
3 Click Start and type Windows Defender in the Search programs and files box.
4 Click Tools > Options > Administrator.
5 Deselect Use this program and click Save.
Disable Microsoft Feeds Synchronization on Windows 7 and Windows 8 Virtual
Machines
Windows Internet Explorer uses the Microsoft Feeds Synchronization task to update RSS feeds in users'
Web browsers. This task can contribute to linked-clone growth. Disable this task if your users do not require
automatic RSS feed updates in their browsers.
Microsoft Feeds Synchronization can cause OS-disk growth if persistent disks are not configured. If
persistent disks are configured, the impact is diverted to the persistent disks. In this situation, you should
still disable Microsoft Feeds Synchronization to control persistent-disk growth.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Client, select the parent virtual machine and select Open Console.
2 Log in to the Windows 7 or Windows 8 guest operating system as an administrator.
3 Click Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options.
4 Click the Content tab.
5 Under Feeds and Web Slices, click Settings.
6 Deselect Automatically check feeds and Web Slices for updates and click OK.
7 In the Internet Properties dialog, click OK.
Preparing Virtual Machines for View Composer
To deploy a linked-clone desktop pool, you must prepare a parent virtual machine that meets the
requirements of the View Composer service.
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Prepare a Parent Virtual Machine on page 47
The View Composer service requires a parent virtual machine from which you generate a base image
for creating and managing a linked-clone desktop pool.
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Activating Windows on Linked-Clone Virtual Machines on page 49
To make sure that View Composer properly activates Windows 8 and Windows 7 operating systems
on linked-clone machines, you must use Microsoft volume activation on the parent virtual machine.
The volume-activation technology requires a volume license key.
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Disable Windows Hibernation in the Parent Virtual Machine on page 49
The Windows hibernation option creates a large system file that can increase the size of the linked-
clone OS disks that are created from the parent virtual machine. Disabling the hibernation option
reduces the size of linked-clones.
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Configure a Parent Virtual Machine to Use Local Storage on page 50
When you prepare a parent virtual machine for View Composer, you can configure the parent virtual
machine and linked clones to store virtual-machine swap files on the local datastore. This optional
strategy lets you take advantage of local storage.
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