I upgraded my 7.x environment to 7.10 and using a new Windows 10 Image tried to build a new Instant Clone pool. However the pool fails to publish. It creates a CP_Template vm and joins it to the domain, but then stalls out and displays this message:
Publish Error:
The time on the vm is correct, vmware tools is up to date, the hosts are running 6.7U2 and have all patches installed. So far VMWare support hasn't been able to resolve the issue either. Not sure where to go next, composer and full machine clones both work fine so I'm probably just going to go back to using composer as it has proven to be more reliable.
Well vmware support finally came up with a solution.
Within this registry key:
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\ViewComposer\ga
I had to create this DWord entry
GPUpdateEnabledOnIT Set to 0
After that i was able to create a new snapshost and deploy it without issue. I've been able to deploy snapshots from multiple 1903 VM's so hopefully this issue is resolved.
Thats good new, any idea why that fixed the issue? I can't see any information online about that key and was wondering why it was needed.
Thanks VSprague, my frustration with this issue is finally over! I could see it was something to do with the AD container the cp-template object was in, but couldn't understand what Group Policy settings was causing issues. Now it doesn't process the Group Policies and all is good. Thanks for taking time to post the solution, it's greatly appreciated.
Also, someone's written it up here, which looks like it references (but doesn't credit) your post:
Thanks again.
Ken.
thanks a lot for this!
Are these logs from vSphere or Connection Broker? How do I pull these logs?
This bug is still in the 8.1 Horizon Agent, Putt this reg entry in the installer VMware..Good Grief.. Thank you for posting the resolution.
Thanks for this post. I've been banging my head on this for some time attempting to upgrade from an 1809 build to 1909 & 20H2. Adding this DWord to my master did the trick.
after tried this regedit entry, checked dns and dhcp issues, repair windows 10 with dism operation, check windows event issues NOTHING changed
but... after add the horizon instant clone user service as local administrator in the gold image the problem was vanished