Virtual Engine are pleased to announce the general availability of version 1.3 of the Virtual Engine Toolkit (VET). The latest Windows installer and documentation is available for download now on the Virtual Engine web site. New in this release is the addition of the WSUS Integration Management Pack (WiMP).
There’s no “What’s New” video this time but to view existing videos on the Virtual Engine Toolkit, please check out our YouTube channel.
This post is just a heads-up on some errors we’ve seen importing Group Policy Objects into RES Workspace Manager with the latest Virtual Engine Toolkit v1.2 release. In version v1.2 we introduced the ability to convert GPO permissions and OU links. To achieve this we needed to alter the way in which we enumerated the Group Policy Objects present within the source Active Directory domain.
VET v1.2 directly scans the SYSVOL volume (this approach has changed in VET v2.0). Unfortunately, if there is an errant folder that persists in the SYSVOL (but is no longer present in Active Directory) this error is not correctly trapped. The net result is a spectacular .NET exception error!
Internally we have code that fixes this issue, but it’ll be a few days before @nathan_sperry has digitally signed the new executable and built a new MSI installer. When this update is available, you will receive an update notification informing you that there’s an update available.
In the meantime, if you receive a crash when importing GPOs, you’ll need to track down the errant policy folder and either delete the redundant GPO folder or remove the \USER\registry.pol or \MACHINE\registry.pol file.
Whilst the VET v1.3 is primarily a bug fix we are introducing something completely new, e.g. it’s nothing to do with VET, PuU, JET or JETCMD. It’s something we have been using internally and at customers for a long time. Stay tuned for more information…
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