Thank Aaron, I looked over that thread you mentioned. I'm not too clear if I need to change anything on my management node which will handle this staging of the user?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > Yes, the default profile is copied for each new user account that is > created. > > 1 GB seems like a lot of data in the profile. If you can make that > smaller, the login process will go much faster. Also, check on the I/O > latency of your "VM Working Directory Path" -- you may want to consider > putting that on faster disk (I recall in an earlier message that you used > your local SSDs for the Virtual Disk Path and the slower disk for the > running VMs -- you may want to switch that). > > We ended up making some changes to the backend code to eliminate the need > to copy a default profile. Details are in this thread: > http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/deztgovq2a433wco > > The upshot is that we pre-stage a user account at image creation time, and > then use `wmic` to rename" that account to the relevant user rather than > copying everything from the default profile. > > Aaron > > > On Jun 25, 2014, at 11:57 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I followed the Instructions for creating a default profile, however, now > the computer takes like 10 minutes to login. I'm not sure if it's due to > that but If I go to c:\users\<my username> the size is over a 1 gig, isn't > it suppose to use the default profile for all users? It seems like it's > copying the default profile which is taking a long time. Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Andy Kurth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Users are prompted for their initials if the Office settings don't exist > in the default user profile. You can add the settings by launching all of > the Office applications once when configuring a default user profile: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/How+to+Configure+the+Windows+Default+User+Profile > > > > Regarding the activation, you can add a startup script which runs the > activation command: > > -Run gpedit.msc > > -Navigate to: Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts > > Startup > > -Click "Show Files" > > -Create a text file named something like "activate_office.cmd" > > -Add the following line to the file and save it (the path to OSPP.VBS > will vary depending on the version of Office installed in the image): > > cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /act > > -In the gpedit.msc window, click Add, browse and select your .cmd file, > and save the changes > > > > Regards, > > Andy > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:38 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm wondering how folks are handling activating Microsoft office > products on VCL images. For one , The several folks that have been piloting > VCL rather not have the initials prompt box pop up every time they create a > new reservation and first start office. Secondly , Office detects that it's > on different hardware from my original image capture so it prompts for the > products to be activated again via the phone or internet. Any suggestions > on how to overcome these small nuisances . Thank you > > > > > > > > > >
