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VMWare View Agent 7.7 installation with Persona management brings the Windows 10 golden image into automatic repair state

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During the PoC project of VMWare Horizon View 7.6 for our customer we have noticed quite a weird issue with the View agent. In short, after the installation of View agent 7.7, any Windows 10 golden image gets into automatic repair state and is not able to boot normally. This issue had been reproduced on Windows 10 1803 and Windows 10 1809 LTSC. While this problem arises with Agent 7.7, there are no issues with Agent 7.6. In addition, the main reason is Persona Management component. You will not experience the issue if you are not using Persona Management in your environment. We have been testing desktop pools with the View Agent 7.6 and Persona Management and all the desktops were working quite good. All the golden images are configured using Local GPOs to define the settings of View Agent software, including the Persona Management component. Unfortunately, we were not able to use Domain GPOs for these VMs and VDI desktops due to some security restrictions of the customer. My colleag...