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Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Vmware_VDI — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 21:45:34 GMT

Hi Experts, I am new to the Horizon World. We have 20+ Instant clone pools.

I need to patch them every Month (Windows, Office, Chrome, Edge etc)

Current process is to

Logon to the Master VM of the Pool
Remove the VM from AD Group (so that GPOs are not applicable and Browser can be updated)
Reboot
Install Windows, Office, Browser updates
Run Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Add the Computer account of master vm to AD groups
Reboot
Run defrag C: /v
Run sdelete64.exe -Z C:
Clear Event logs
Shutdown the VM
Take Snapshot of the VM
Push the new Image to the pool

Its a very Time taking process, please suggest

If this is the right way of patching?
How can I automate this?

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Christos_vv — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:12:25 GMT

yes. You should update master ,take new snapshot & publish the new image.

https://techzone.vmware.com/using-automation-create-optimized-windows-images-vmware-horizon-vms

https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/01/vmware-horizon-7-powercli.html

https://techzone.vmware.com/blog/effective-image-management-image-management-service

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

smut5203 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:48:06 GMT

I was also looking for this information. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

shawnwat2 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:32:13 GMT

Sort of a side question: Does anyone use the Image Management Service in production?

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Vmware_VDI — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:49:48 GMT

Thanks for sharing this information.

I am not getting the support to use Image Management service in our environment. We have already used the SCCM for creating the image (https://techzone.vmware.com/using-automation-create-optimized-windows-images-vmware-horizon-vms) but if we keep on creating new images every Month it would require help from Business for testing the apps before making the images live (wont be feasible for them to give us that Time).

Current method is taking a lot of Time, wanted to understand how others are doing it in their production environments with 20+ images.

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Christos_vv — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:57:22 GMT

Try to reduce images by using layering or application virtualizations.

VMware has appvolume .This would help for centralized application life cycle management.

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Christos_vv — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:57:45 GMT

https://techzone.vmware.com/resource/app-volumes-architecture

Re: Automate Monthly patching of Instant clone pool Master VM

Vmware_VDI — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:28:40 GMT

Thank you, Funding has been requested to implement AppVol and most probably we should have it by May 2023. Hence looking for keeping these 25 images up to date every Month, driving me insane