On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:38 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW I do exactly this - workstation VM with ...
Interesting, and some good ideas in there. Thanks. > Mostly it's because I hate reinstalling all my doodads when I > get a different machine. BTW: I put all those small, self-contained utilities (like OLDCMP) on a network share. It's DFS replicated to every server (we only have a very few) as C:\BIN, and shared as "BIN". (Another thing that will change as we roll out server VMs, hmmm.) I normally put it in the PATH -- local path on the server, and UNC to the AD DFS name on IT-ish accounts. Doesn't help for things which need complicated installs, but it's still very handy. The MS Windows Support Tools, the MS Windows Resource Kit tools, various other Microsoft tools, Unix ports, PuTTY, JoeWare, etc., etc. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
