App Control: How to Create Template Image for Instant Clones

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Environment

• App Control Server: 8.7+
• App Control Agent: 8.7+
• VMware Horizon Instant Clone Desktop Pool

Objective

How to Create Template Image for Instant Clones

Resolution

1. Install all required before installing the App Control agent (for new installs)
   • If there is an agent already installed then please do a CC check to verify the file inventory and approve any new files that may have been added since.
2. Navigate to Assets > Computers > find the Golden Image VM > open the Details > Verify:
   • No Parent Template Computer is listed on the page (not a clone); if the agent is a clone of a Template Computer then please follow these steps to unlink it from the old template
   • Initialization is complete
   • Synchronization is 100%
3. On the right  select "Create Template Image" > Ok the warning (you would need to create a snapshot in the VMware console at the same time)
4. Enter the Template Name
5. Select "All files" or "New and modified files" inventory
6. Clone Cleanup > Select Manual or Automatic
7. Internal Template: keep defaults

   • Internal Template: Standard
     Check the box if Clones are joined to an Active Directory domain
     Prefix: IT
     Suffix: leave blank
     Which characters may exist between the prefix and suffix?
     Check the box for "Numbers (0-9)" only

   • Horizon's default Internal Template name pattern looks like "it1234567", it is very uncommon that this was changed
   • App Control capitalizes the Internal Template name from "it123567" to "IT1234567"
8. Internal Template Tests: this is only used to verify that the Instant Clone VM names don't accidentally match the Internal Template name since this will cause the App C clone process to fail
   • For example if the Instant Clones are named as "IT1,IT2..." this will match the pattern of the Internal Template name "IT1234567" and the test will fail
   • To pass the test enter a sample Internal Template name and a sample Instant Clone VM name eg.

     DOMAIN\IT12345667
     and
     DOMAIN\MYCLONE-1

9. Save the Template

Additional Notes

• More details can be found in the App Control User Guide chapter, "Managing Virtual Machines".
• A sample Template Configuration will look like this:

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