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https://treewebcam.weebly.com/home/download-pom-qm-for-mac. The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps in preparing and optimizing Windows 10/8/7 and Windows Server 2019/2016/2012 systems for use with VMware Horizon.
At a high level, the process of creating a master VM image consists of the following steps.
The OS Optimization Tool helps with three key steps in this process:
For a step by step walkthrough of the complete process, see the Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop guide.
Additionally, the OS Optimization Tool helps running Windows Update on a master VM image that has previously been optimized and had functionality disabled.
The OS Optimization Tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices. Since most Windows system services are enabled by default, the optimization tool can be used to easily disable unnecessary services and features to improve performance and user experience.
The Analyze button, at the bottom, compares the settings of the template against the machine settings.
The Common Options button opens a dialog where the tabs allow you to quickly and easily choose and set preferences to control common functionality. These options normally involve configuring multiple individual settings in the template. By grouping the actions together, the individual settings get configured as necessary to give the desired outcome.
Amongst the settings in this dialog there is the option to remove Windows 10 Store Apps while keeping commonly used ones.
The Optimize button, at the bottom of the page, applies the template settings to the machine.
Generalize helps in running the system preparation tool (Sysprep) by generating a customizable and editable unattend answer file.
Finalize provides the option to automate and help with some of the common clean up tasks that are typically run just before using the prepared image. These include system clean up tasks and clearing information that makes the image cleaner and ready for use with Horizon.
Update
Update makes it easy to re-enable Windows Update functionality on an image that has previously been optimized and had this disabled.
The four steps should be run in order.
My Templates lists all the built-in templates, templates you have created or downloaded. It also allows you to examine the detail of a template, the individual settings and understand what action is carried out if that setting is selected.
Public Templates allows you to share your templates, get templates from the community, or update the built-in templates (if an update is available).
For more information, please see the VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.
For details on the complete process for creating an optimized Windows image from beginning to end, please see the Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop guide.
August, 2020, b1171 Version Update
Optimizations
Disable Passive Polling is no longer selected by default as this was shown to cause issues with some applications thinking they did not have internet connectivity. Note that this optimization entry was previously incorrectly named as Enable Passive Polling. Added new setting to Use WDDM graphics display driver for Remote Desktop Connections. UI Improvements Brand new interface functionality to allow searching of the optimizations to find specific entries. This is available on both the Optimize and My Templates tabs and allows you to find and view settings based on what you type in. Added a grid splitter to extend area of left tree view under My Templates. Common Options New controls to simplify keeping Cortana search and how the search box appears in the taskbar. Generalize New option to specify the Administrator account to use after running SysPrep. This defaults to the current user account. The account specified is also added to the Administrators and Remote Desktop Users groups. New option to perform an automatic restart after the Generalize task has completed. Bug Fixes
Templates
New combined template for all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Optimizations can have optional parameters to filter the version that a setting is applied to.
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.
New Optimizations added and some removed, For details see: https://techzone.vmware.com/resource/vmware-operating-system-optimization-tool-guide#Template_Updates
Bug Fixes
Fixed issues with re-enabling Windows Update functionality on Server 2016 and 2019.
Fixed issue that was preventing Windows Antimalware from being disabled properly.
Common Options
Changed interface and language on the Common Options page for Windows Update to remove confusion. This option can only be used to disable Windows Update as part of an optimization task. To re-enable Windows Update functionality, use the Update button on the main menu ribbon.
Guides
Updated OSOT user guide: VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.
June, 2020, b1160
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:
Generalize
Completely redesigned interface that makes it easier to change the settings to customize the unattend answer file. These include:
You still have the ability to view and edit the generated unattend answer file, if required, before execution.
Added cleanup of the local administrator profile before performing a copy profile including deleting the following registry entries:
Finalize
Commands added to disable App Volumes services, if installed, before running the Finalize steps. Common Options
Selections are now retained between runs. This makes it easier to rerun an optimize with the same common option settings.
Command Line
Standardization for the main command line options.
Optimizations
Remove optimizations that, while not selected by default, can cause issues if selected:
Guides
Updated OSOT user guide: VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.
April,2020,b1151
Fixed several issues in CLI.
April, 2020, b1150
.docx file of recent change log located in the hyperlink above.
Includes various bug fixes and many new optimizations that have a huge beneficial effect.
Support for Windows 10 version 2004 has been added.
Optimizations
Lots of Windows 10 and Windows Server optimizations have been added to this version. These include settings for Windows features and also for applications:
More optimizations have been added for Windows services and scheduled tasks to achieve a faster OS initialization and improve performance.
UI Button Renames and Reorder
Several buttons have been renamed to more closely reflect the task they perform.
Inside the Optimize page the buttons at the bottom left have been reorganized. These are now in order that you would execute them in. Analyze > Common Options > Optimize
Removed the button for Compatibility as this was a legacy item.
The top-level buttons and tabs have been reordered to better reflect the main tasks and the order you carry them out in. Analyze > Generalize > Finalize.
Common Options
New option in Visual Effect to allow the selection of disabling hardware acceleration for IE, office and Adobe Reader. The default is that this is selected but this allows this to be easily unselected if using hardware GPU.
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.
Automate the use of SDelete to zero empty disk space.
Create Local Group Policies
Command Line
Command line support added for the Generalize step.
Command line support added for the Finalize step. This also simplifies and consolidates the previous system clean tasks (NGEN, DISM, Compact, Disk Cleanup) under the new -Finalize option. These can now be run without specifying a template.
Fixed naming of Paint3D application when wanting to retain this while removing other Windows Store Applications. This had been previously been incorrectly named as MSpaint.
Templates
Windows 10 version 2004 was added to the built-in template Windows 10 1809 – XXXX-Server 2019.
Legacy templates for Horizon Cloud and App Volumes packaging have been removed. The two standard Windows 10 templates should be used instead.
LoginVSI templates are no longer built in. They are still available to download from the public templates interface.
Guides
Updated OSOT user guide: VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.
Updated Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop guide coming soon.
Includes various bug fixes.
Optimize Results
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A new button has been added to the results page that displays once an optimization job has completed. This Export button allows you to save the results page as an HTML file.
Generalize
New option and button that simplifies the task of running Sysprep using a standard answer file. You can edit the provided answer file before running Sysprep with it.
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. These include the system clean up tasks (NGEN, DISM, Compact and disk clean up) that were previously provided in the Common Options dialog. This also includes clearing event logs, KMS information and releasing the IP address.
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. Download firefox 56 for mac.
New tab for Security options. This allows for the quick selection of common settings that might need to be left enabled depending on the security requirements. This offers control over Bitlocker, Firewall, Windows Defender, SmartScreen, HVCI.
Command Line
Added command line parameter to allow the tool to run without applying optimizations. This is part of the -o parameter called none that then allows you to run things like the system cleanup tasks (NGEM DISM, etc.) without also having to optimize at the same time.
VMwareOSOptimizationTool.exe -o none -t template -systemcleanup 0 1 2 3
WebCache
Changed default to not disable Webcache. In testing this was shown to break Edge and IE browsers ability to download and save files. The settings are still available in the Windows 10 templates if you want to disable Webcache.
Guides
Updated OSOT user guide: VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide.
Updated Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop guide coming soon.
December, 2019, b1130
Command Line
The VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide has been updated to include instruction and examples on using the command line.
Visual Effects
WebCache
Horizon Cloud Templates
December, 2019, b1120
Templates
Changed the two existing Windows 10 templates to also cover the associated Server OS and to introduce support for Windows Server 2019. • Windows 10 1507-1803 / Server 2016 • Windows 10 1809-1909 / Server 2019 The old Windows Server 2016 templates have been removed.
System Clean Up
Added System Clean Up options to Common Options dialog. This removed the need for these to be typed and run manually.
1. Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) Reduces the size of the WinSxS folder by uninstalling and deleting packages with components that have been replaced by other components with newer versions. Should be run after a Windows update. 2. Native Image Generator (NGEN). Optimizes the .NET Framework. Should be run after an update of .NET Framework. 3. Compact Compact (Windows 10/ Server 2016/2019). Enables CompactOS to compress specific Windows system files to free up space. Can take several minutes to execute. 4. Disk Cleanup. Deletes temporary and unnecessary files.
Background/Wallpaper
New Common Options page for Background which allows the choice of color using a picker. This also allows the option to allow the user to be able to change their wallpaper.
Visual Effects options
Added a third option where all visual effects are turned off apart from smooth edges and use drop shadows. This is now the default selection.
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. The Windows Store App and the StorePurchaseApp are retained by default.
Applications that will be able to be selected to be kept are:
• Alarms & Clock • Camera • Calculator • Paint3D • Screen Sketch • Sound Recorder • Sticky Notes • Web Extensions
Defaults
The small taskbar option is now no longer selected by default.
In both Windows 10/ Server templates the following services are now no longer selected by default.
• Application Layering Gateway Service
• Block Level Backup Engine Service • BranchCache • Function Discovery Provider Host • Function Discovery Resource Publication • Internet Connection Sharing • IP Helper • Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service • Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider • Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service • SNMP Trap • SSDP Discovery • Store Storage Service • Volume Shadow Copy Service • Windows Biometric Service
Numerous New Optimizations
• Fully disable Smartscreen. • Disable Content Delivery Manager. • Disable User Activity History completely. • Disable Cloud Content. • Disable Shared Experiences. • Disable Server Manager when Windows Server OS. • Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security when Windows Server OS (not selected by default). • Disable Storage Sense service. • Disable Distributed Link Tracking Client Service. • Disable Payments and NFC/SE Manager Service. Bug and error fixes • Fixed condition when Export Analysis Results would fail to create file.
September, 2019, b1110
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Updated and changed template settings for newer Windows 10 versions to cope with changes in the OS, registry keys and functionality:
Numerous bug and error fixes:
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About This File
This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.5.0
VMware are no longer including the ISO images as separate 'packages' in the CDS respository as of Fusion 11.5.0, instead the ISO images are included as part of the 'core' download which is 522 MB.
It is not possible to download the com.vmware.fusion.zip.tar due to upload limits.
However, I have extracted the darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso from the 'core' and uploaded to this thread.
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If you prefer to download the 'core' tar file and extract the ISO's they are located in the following directory in the tar file:
com.vmware.fusion.zip.tarcom.vmware.fusion.zippayloadVMware Fusion.appContentsLibraryisoimages
Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update.
To check for the latest version visit http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/.
The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version upto and including 11.1.0.
Instructions for extracting darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso
- Download the files above
- Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar
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- darwin.iso is located in the 'payload' folder
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