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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 a Parent Virtual Machine
To deploy an instant-clone or a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool, you must first prepare a parent
virtual machine.
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Configure a Parent Virtual Machine on page 45
After creating a virtual machine that you plan to use as a parent, configure the Windows environment.
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Activating Windows on Instant Clones and View Composer Linked Clones on page 47
To make sure that Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server clones are properly
activated when the clones are created, 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 47
The Windows hibernation feature creates a hidden system file, Hiberfil.sys and uses this file to store
information that is needed for hybrid sleep. Disabling hibernation reduces the size of an instant clone's
or a View Composer linked clone's virtual disk.
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Configure Local Storage for View Composer Linked Clones on page 48
For a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool, you can configure the parent virtual machine to store
virtual-machine swap files on a local datastore. The linked clones' swap files will reside on local
storage. This feature is not available to instant clones.
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Record the Paging File Size of a View Composer Parent Virtual Machine on page 48
When you create a View Composer linked-clone desktop pool, you can redirect the clones' paging and
temp files to a separate disk. You must configure this disk to be larger than the size of the paging file
on the parent virtual machine.
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Increase the Timeout Limit for ClonePrep and QuickPrep Customization Scripts on page 49
ClonePrep and QuickPrep post-synchronization or power-off scripts have a timeout limit of 20
seconds. You can increase this limit by changing the ExecScriptTimeout Windows registry value on
the parent virtual machine.
Configure a Parent Virtual Machine
After creating a virtual machine that you plan to use as a parent, configure the Windows environment.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you prepared a virtual machine to use for deploying remote desktops. See “Creating a
Virtual Machine for Cloning,” on page 19.
The parent virtual machine can either belong to the same Active Directory domain as the domain that
the desktop machines will join or be a member of a workgroup.
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Verify that the virtual machine was not converted from an instant clone or a View Composer linked
clone.
IMPORTANT You also cannot use an instant clone or a View Composer linked clones as a parent virtual
machine.
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