We're in the process of moving our users from physical PCs to using Sunray devices which are effectively dumb terminals onto a virtual machine running on an ESX cluster. The majority of these will be flexible VMs whereby a virtual machine is created when a user logs on, is sysprepped, put on the domain and is then available for use by the end user. Once they log off, the machine is deleted.
Here's where the fun starts - I need to install Sophos on the base image. I've had a look at the tricks they use for Citrix images (removing a few registry keys, deleting a couple of XML files which force the machine to re-register with the Enterprise console), and have tried to use these but I seem to be having issues - the registry keys don't seem to exist under Windows 7. The first image I created using the Citrix method worked fine - registered with the console, great. I left that VM powered on and created a second one based on the same image, this registered fine with a new name on the console, but the old machine disappeared from there. Not what I was expecting as it was still switched on and on the network!
Has anyone got any experience with configuring Sophos for use with flexible images, specifically under Windows 7?
Cheers
JD
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