We have labs with a lot of autodesk titles, and I don't want to create a monolithic image with those titles anymore. To be more modular, I want to install the necessary titles via post image tasks. These titles are large and can take 10+ minutes each to install and some labs need several titles.
The problem I'm running into is the installs are taking long enough to install that software updates are also installing in the background on freshly imaged machines while the post image tasks are installing. Autocad (and possibly some of the other Autodesk titles) will not install properly if it sees the machine is in a pending restart state from the software updates.
Are there any plans for symantec to allow customers to better control software updates on freshly imaged machines? It seems like if I could either delay software updates from happening until my image job is complete, we'd be great. Or, if I could use an imaging task to force software updates to happen and restart the machine and then move on to Autodesk installs, we'd be ok. I understand the latter is more complicated because an assessment scan needs to run, as well as update client config, etc.
Anyone have suggestions? I really want to be able to install software as part of imaging jobs with no technican interaction, and I don't think that's asking too much. Thanks!