Well after some working on this for a while I found a couple of issues:
- The first problem I had was that I needed to logon as a domain user to activate the METRO APP. A domain admin person can not activate the APP. I created my parent image entirely using the domain admin account and never signing in as a user. once I logged in as a user and then recomposed, the problem with Metro APPS went away sort of.
- We are used linked clones in our environment and we recomposed the Windows 7 computers to window 8.1 computers. The problem I found out is that you can not upgrade linked clones from one operating system to another with persistent disks. If you need to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 you must deattach the disk. Add the disk to a new linked clone and copy the data.
There is no clear upgrade path from VMWARE VIEW from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 without a lot of manual effort