Feature Request: Group Policy Support

[h0bbel]

Hi,

Are there any plans for Group Policy (.admx) support for managing multiple deployments of VMware Workstation for Windows? I recently came across a scenario where a client wanted to disable the possibility of running VMs in NAT mode, but currently there is no easy to to do that without disabling the "VMware NAT Service" with a Group Policy Preference. Ideally I would think it would be better to create .admx templates that admins can import and use to control their Workstation for Windows instances?

For more details on my particular case, and "solution", have a look at http://vninja.net/vmware-2/centrally-disable-nat-vmware-workstation/

Christian

[jeremym]

Christian:

I wanted to make you aware of this solution (see the video and associated web page):

http://www.policypak.com/products/manage-vmware-workstation-using-group-policy-policypak.html

We can control (and lock down) almost all the "Options" settings within VMware Workstation for deployments just like yours.

If you'd like to try it out, we're here for you.

-Jeremy Moskowitz

[kclinden]

I second this!