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Windows 10 1607, some applications not working in linked clones

Hello:

I am currently trying to figure out a very strange issue with Windows 10 1607 (we did not have these issues with 1511).  We have a few applications installed on our golden master VM.  I am recomposing our pools and within the linked clones, some of the applications simply do not run at all.  These applications will run fine on the golden master VM, just not on any linked clones.  An example is Office 2016 click to run, it will crash.  Another is Symantec Endpoint Protection which opens but shows a blank screen and autoprotect is malfunctioning.  I am not sure why these applications would break simply from the cloning process.  I am using the standard guest customization, with only a couple of tweaks, mainly setting the local administrator password and mostly defaults. 

Any ideas on why this would happen, only with Windows 10 1607?  I have seen a lot of problems related to guest customization for Windows 10 but mostly that's where it stalls or freezes and does not work.  It's working and completing but somehow these applications are breaking.

Thanks in advance.

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We finally resolved this after many hours of painful testing.  It turns out that AppVol was causing the applications to malfunction.  Something during our capture process with AppVol caused the applications to get "bad" captures.  The fix was to use a very basic VM without anything installed on it, to do the capturing and that seemed to provide a clean capture and resolved the conflicts.  AppVol was the last thing I would have thought to be the issue, as I did not know it can conflict with apps that are installed directly on the VM itself.

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We finally resolved this after many hours of painful testing.  It turns out that AppVol was causing the applications to malfunction.  Something during our capture process with AppVol caused the applications to get "bad" captures.  The fix was to use a very basic VM without anything installed on it, to do the capturing and that seemed to provide a clean capture and resolved the conflicts.  AppVol was the last thing I would have thought to be the issue, as I did not know it can conflict with apps that are installed directly on the VM itself.

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