I am a very junior network administrator and I have been thrown in the middle of this pond (VMware) with little or no training or support from senior engineering,... I will do the best I can describe my troubles and if further clarification is necesary I will do my best to provide it.
Going through the process of optimizing a Win7 image for use in a linked clone automatic pool that will be managed with View Administrator. Using the guide located here http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf I have been preparing the base image through vSphere 4.10. This will be used to provide a series of pools for our Customer Service department.
The attached Commands.bat script inside the guide will turn WSUS off.
I am looking for a step by step procedure to utilize the base image, snapshots, WSUS and any other tool available in vShpere and View Admin to update the base image while keeping WSUS turned off on the clones. So far I have been unable to penetrate the VMware arcana short of keeping two base images and somehow copying the WSUS enabled master after the monthly updates have completed off then rerunning the command.bat on the new copy, then using the new copy to snapshot and recompose the pool. It would seem to me that there should be a simpler way to do this.
Thank you in advance.