Brian- cool post -
I have a need to simultaneously log into the guest OS of about 50 + systems with a single user account, so that the user account is sitting at the desktop when I open the VM's remote console. The functionality is an option in the VMware guest customization wizard when deploying a new VM from template, that being to log on as admin x # of times. the problem I am facing is that I do not want to modify the registry of the systems because they are live production systems at customer sites, not lab systems.
The history behind this need is simple, we run scripts, and we verify these scripted changes with other scripts, but the occasional 1 off has bitten us in the but at a few customer sites so management has mandated that each and every system be logged into manually to verify the changes were made properly. I want to speed this process up for the field engineers.
Any thoughts?