Release date: July 29th 2020
Welcome to my VMware Horizon series. As Microsoft releases updates and security-patches on a monthly basis, we also have to update/patch the template-vm on a monthly basis. I will also check and patch other software I have installed at this time. As I used the VMware OS Optimization Tool when creating the template vm, Windows Update was disabled during optimization. I will have to re-enable Windows Update, patch the OS, re-run OSOT, take a new snapshot and roll out this to the desktop pool.
The first thing to do is to power up the template-vm and open VMware Remote Console
Once Windows is up and running, I re-enable Windows Update by running the following commands in an administrative command prompt:
REG DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /f
SC CONFIG wuauserv start= demand
SC START wuauserv
gpupdate
usoclient StartScan
Windows Update can also be re-enabled by using the new Update-Tab inside VMware OSOT
The Windows Updates now starts downloading and installing
Once all updates are downloaded and installed, I restart Windows when prompted
Once Windows has rebooted, I launch VMware OSOT and re-run optimization with a reboot afterwards
After the reboot, I re-launch VMware OSOT and run the Finalize procedure. Once finished, I shutdown the template-vm.
Next, I delete the existing snapshot the desktop pool is based upon and create a new one. In a production environment, it would be preferable to disable provisioning on the desktop pool before deleting the snapshot, but as this is a lab with very little consequences, I will just do it like this in this session.
I push out the new snapshot to my desktop pool in the VMware Horizon Administrator Console
I can now monitor the progress of the Push-operation in Horizon Admin Console and vSphere.
When the Push-operation is complete, the State changes to “Published” and the virtual desktops have the status “Available”
With that the maintenance is complete for this month, to be repeated next month.
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