You can now enable remote assistance and remote desktop as per your needs. Select Remote Settings on the properties screen – as seen above.
We should enable the Administrator account and set a password on it.
Use Windows Update which I start from the Ask me anything field. If not, your ESXi host may have the wrong time.
But now with the right Timezone it should be the right time. In fact it was in Zulu or Universal Time because the host time was when the VM started. When we first started all of this you may have noticed that the time of the VM was way off.I like to use the 24 Hour clock and if you want to do that too click on the Clock in the taskbar and select Date and time settings, Change Date and Time formats, Change calendar settings, and make the appropriate changes.Select Date and time settings, Change timezone, pick the right timezone.
Start by clicking on the date in the bottom right corner of the screen. I like to get the Date / Time right first.We need to log in again so we can start making changes.The changes below are the ones I make, and think useful but in this section you make the changes that work best for you and your organization. It will be used to make other templates that are more specific – such as View desktop template. Meaning this is the template that is most general. In this phase we tweak the OS and get it ready for a wide range of potential use. See below for what this should look like. We need to Enable The next boot to enter BIOS setup.Change to the VM Options tab, and expand Boot options.I like to tweak the video settings to 4 displays / 128 MB memory, to avoid issues in View.You should change the network to vmxnet3,.I like to use the Paravirtual controller, but it is hard to do now so use LSI Logic SAS.Change processor and memory as appropriate.I will use win10TPL – remember there is a 15 character limit you should work within. Create a new VM, and give it a good name.I sometimes will clone the template and set it up as a new template with different parameters – like more vCPU and memory and use it for a specific VDI pool – such as for admins. Since this is going to end up as a desktop – likely in a VDI environment too – I like to have it as a 32 GB disk, and 2x vCPU, with 3 GB of memory.For example you might use a VM from this template in a DMZ where there is no GPO so having it fully configured and ready to go is handy. I know that some of what I am going to show you can be done in GPO but I like to do it the way I am going to show you as I think it is more flexible.
Find the bits here to install on your work machine, and you can read a little about it here.
Any software you like to have installed in a template – you will see below what I like to have and links to them.Windows 10 ISO up in your infrastructure – and know where it is!.I am also using the vSphere Web Client – and s o should you – and so my screenshots reflect that client usage. VMware Infrastructure – I am using a vCenter 6.0 U2 environment patched to current.So lets get started! Things to have ready