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Optimizations Changed step Block all consumer Microsoft account user authentication to be unselected by default. Templates Windows 8 and 8. Removed old Windows 10 templates from the Public Templates repository: Windows 10 Server Windows 10 Server January , b Bug Fixes All optimization entries have been added back into the main user template. This allows manual tuning and selection of all optimizations. Fixed two hardware acceleration selections were not previously controlled by the Common Option for Visual Effect to disable hardware acceleration.

Analyze When an Analyze is run, if the default json file exists meaning that this image has already been optimized , this is imported and used to select the optimizations and the Common Options selections with the previous choices. If the default selections are required, on subsequent runs of the OS Optimization Tool, delete the default json file, relaunch the tool and run Analyze.

Optimizations Changed entries for Hyper-V services to not be selected by default. These services are required for VMs deployed onto Azure. Windows installation sets these to manual trigger so these so not cause any overhead on vSphere, when left with the default setting. Resolved the issue of failing to disable anti-virus feature on Windows 10 Fixed issue where re-enabling Windows Update would pull down feature updates by default. For all tabs, user now can apply different Common Options settings multiple times on optimized system.

These are then set back to automatic when Windows Update is disabled again. Optimizations Added the ability to export and import selected optimization items on the Optimize page Export Selections and Import Selections. New: Turn off account privacy notifications in Office and Office Command Line New parameter -ApplyOptimization to import a file that contains previously selected optimization items.

New parameters e. Templates Removed built-in templates and support for Windows 7 and for Server A separate download of version b is available for use with those OS versions. UI Theme color has been changed to light grey August, , b Update Templates New combined template for all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server and Optimizations Turn off NCSI is no longer selected by default as this was shown to cause issues with some applications thinking they did not have internet connectivity.

Fixed issue that was preventing Windows Antimalware from being disabled properly. June, , b Windows Update Brand new option called Update that make it easier to re-enable Windows Update functionality on a Windows image that has previously been optimized and had this disabled. This process has the following four steps: Enable — Changes the required registry values, local group policy and enables the required services.

Windows Update — Starts the Windows update process and open the Windows setting page. You can run the Windows Update process as often as required and reboot, if necessary, before progressing to the next step.

Restore — Returns all settings to their original values. This will also disable scheduled tasks that get regenerated when a Windows Update runs.

Recommendations — After updating Windows, it is recommended that you rerun an optimize and then a finalize task. These include: Time Zone. Input, system, UI, and user locales. Administrator account autologon and password. Copy Profile. Common Options Selections are now retained between runs.

Command Line Standardization for the main command line options. April,,b Fixed several issues in CLI. Includes various bug fixes and many new optimizations that have a huge beneficial effect. Support for Windows 10 version has been added. Optimizations Lots of Windows 10 and Windows Server optimizations have been added to this version.

UI Button Renames and Reorder Several buttons have been renamed to more closely reflect the task they perform. Analyze is now called Optimize. The old page that displayed the results of an optimization task used to be called Optimize. That has been renamed to Results. Added Photos to the list of Windows Store apps that can be selected to be retained. Setting the background to a solid color is now selected by default.

Generalize More comprehensive Sysprep answer file that helps with some optimization items that were getting undone by the Sysprep process. Finalize New options to carry out some tasks that get undone during Generalize. Disable Superfetch service. Clean temporary files from the default user profile. Automate the use of SDelete to zero empty disk space. Overwrites empty disk space with zeros so that the VMDK size can be reduced when it is cloned.

This uses LGPO. Command Line Command line support added for the Generalize step. January, , b Includes various bug fixes. Optimize Results A new button has been added to the results page that displays once an optimization job has completed.

Generalize New option and button that simplifies the task of running Sysprep using a standard answer file. Finalize New option and button to automate many common tasks that are typically run as a last step before you shut down Windows to use the VM in Horizon.

Common Options System clean up tasks have been removed from the common options so will now not run during optimize but instead should be run as part of the Finalize process. Command Line Added command line parameter to allow the tool to run without applying optimizations. December, , b Command Line Added command line parameters to allow the control of the common options settings.

This allows for the control of visual effect, notification, windows update, store applications, background and system clean up tasks, from the command line. Added list of available templates to the output when run with -h help. Fixed issues with command line options. Visual Effects Changed balanced setting default to leave Show shadows under windows enabled. This was making the white on white explorer windows blend in together which did not give the best user experience. The default is that these optimizations are selected.

This is no longer required in Horizon Cloud Service. December, , b Templates Changed the two existing Windows 10 templates to also cover the associated Server OS and to introduce support for Windows Server Visual Effects options Added a third option where all visual effects are turned off apart from smooth edges and use drop shadows.

Windows Store Apps New page in Common Options that allows more control over removing Windows Store Apps while allowing the user to select common ones to keep. September, , b New Common Options button - Allows you to quickly choose and set preferences to control common functionality. These would normally involve configuring multiple individual settings but can now be done with a single selection through this new interface Split Windows 10 into two templates to better handle the differences between the versions; one for and one for Improved and new optimizations for Windows 10, especially for to Removes all built-in apps except the Windows Store.

Numerous bug and error fixes : Reset view after saving customized template Unavailable links in reference tab Windows Store is unavailable after optimizing Start menu may delay after optimizing VMware Tools stops running after optimizing Analysis Summary Graph is cropped July 30, , b Issue fix: With group selection operation, un-selected optimization items are applied.

Now editing template no longer requires repeated Update button click. Mac style editing is applied Automatically save changes along with edit December 14, Template update. Detailed change log for each template is in the online version of each template accessed from Public Templates tab September 20, Supports new mode for optimization item: display-only Supports more easy information retrieval.

For example, installed product version, service current status August 2, New Template: App Volumes Packaging Machine - This template is intended to be used by Application Packagers who are responsible for creating AppStacks and should only be used on the 'Packaging machine'.

Issue fix: mistakenly reports new version available Issue fix: Export Template: xml file has no format. Now the exported XML file is formatted with indentation. May 16, OSOT binary is now digital-signed, to make sure the integrity of distribution Template update: Windows 10 - Item "Use small icons on taskbar" is unselected by default.

April 27, bb Issue Fix: "the node to be removed is not a child of this node" when opitimize windows 10 template Issue Fix: System. NullReferenceException occurs if the network can't reach any of the public template repository. For example, Remote Apps in Windows 10 template. This is caused by a recent change in Conditional Check feature. April 17, b Feature Conditional Check: you can specify on what condition an optimization should be run. For example, when a specific registry key match certain value.

The reason of the original item was hardware limit. Today most of the hardware supports this feature well. So change this item back. Enhancement: performance improvement for change log February 23, Feature: Template change log.

Now user can see change log in Public Template Repository, and append change log when they publish new version of their own templates. Program issue fix: Template comments from Fling site can not be shown. Program issue fix: Rare case crash when switching tab during downloading template. Program Enhancement [My Templates] - Show template id. Program Enhancement [Public Templates] - Add textbox to show template description.

Program Enhancement [Public Templates] - Refresh button can refresh the comments now. Windows Remove item "Device Association Service", because disabling the service leads to more logon time.

Sometimes the application hangs when executing shell command based optimizations e. Editing Schedule Task causes "Error - Sequence contains no elements". Follow me on Twitter My Tweets. Blog Stats 21, hits. Follow vDiscussion on WordPress. Recent Posts SRM 5. Blog User Tracking. Blog at WordPress. Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. Sign me up! December 14, — 3 Comments. Update A number of people in the comments and on twitter have told me they have been able to customise standard and enterprise with update 1, I have reinstalled the VMware tools in my Datacenter template and have now successfully been able to customise my VM.

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