Maintaining a set of (virtual) windows XP machines
- by Frank Meulenaar
I have a small set (currently 3, going to 6, not going to be more than 10) of (virtual, vmware workstation) windows XP machine's. They are similar but not exactly the same.
I'm currently rolling out windows updates etc by hand: start machine 1, update, close, etc; I'd like to review the updates first before the clients can install them. Incidentally there are also other updates to be performed: changes some files on all machines, install new Java versions, etc.
What's a good way of doing this automatic? I tried to search for this but things like Active Directory seem overkill to me.