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As the title states you are wanting to run the new Windows 10 build 1709 in your VMware Horizon environment but are still running View 6.x. I got some good news for you VMware Horizon View 6.2.6 released on March 29th now supports 1709. I would like to point out if you can start looking to move to Horizon View 7.x as 6.x is end of general support on 06/19/2019. You can find find more information in the release notes listed here and you can download View 6.2.6 here .

VMware Release Notes Release Notes What's New? The latest release of App Volumes includes many enhancements that improve end user login times, security, Microsoft Office support, and Windows 10 support. Performance improvements for faster user login and application launch Optimized handling of application registry hives by not blocking end-user login. Addressed a bug that caused the App Volumes agent to scan Appstacks and Writable Volumes before the Windows explorer shell is available. Integration with Active Directory You can manage application and writable volumes assignments across multiple Active Directory domains and forests. You can add multiple domain controllers that App Volumes Manager leverages to query Active Directory users, computers, groups, and OUs. You can move and retain application and writable volumes assignments even when Active Directory objects are moved out of an OU or Group. Security Enhancements By default, communication between App ...

Today i am going to talk about how to setup the VMware Horizon View GPO templates. Using the VMware Horizon View GPO templates you can add value to your overall Horizon View Solution.  Prerequisites: Create GPOs for the different Horizon 7 components and link them to the OU that contains each Horizon 7 components. Ensure you have a user account that has rights to modify GPOs. Ensure you have the Group Policy Management snap-in MMC installed.  Download the Horizon 7 GPO bundle from VMware download site here . This will be found under the VMware Horizon download. Setup: unzip the GPO bundle you downloaded above it should have a name like VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip This next step you have two options Option 1: Copy the ADMX and ADML files from the GPO bundle to the GPO central store. I am not going to go into details on how to configure a GPO central store as that is out of scope for this blog post. Option 2: Copy the ADMX and ADML files...