I was fumbling around with the vmware support site trying to get my login to work through my EVDO connection when I actually took the time to read the left hand column sidebar. Much to my amazement I found the Patch Management Alerts. If you aren’t already signed up, the following link will do the trick:
So, I was presented with a unique opportunity to allow a 3rd party into our network by way of any secured means to transfer files. My initial thought is this would be a slam dunk as their own requirement was to have a way to transfer files from one to another. Yeah.. I know what you are thinking, go ahead and install Linux, harden the system, set-up local users and lock them to a directory and then configure sftp, DONE. Well, after our kick-off meeting things started to get more complex (as they always do) once you start asking detailed questions and trying to map out some logical work flow chart in your head.
I was going to just do local policies but figured why not try and use SteadyState as I used prior for all of our kiosk terminals that the public use.
So.. I’ve been playing around with View for some quite some time, and ran into an interesting issue regarding workstations dropping off the face of the network after performing a re-clone / recomposes / refresh with our persistent linked clone pools…. those pesky SID errors and kerberos messages.. *sigh*.
It turns out it had to do with our AD container relative distinguished names and how we have our OU’s setup within our organization. The syntax for the QuuickPrep Settings I could not find anywhere in the documentation or in the communities.
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