Hi all,
We have a print server app that needs to be able to resolve the host names of our View linked clone floating desktops (to shoot down messages to the desktops....kind of like the old Microsoft Messenger service). I have the master desktop image setup to register the IP address it gets with DNS and this works the first time the pool is built. For example a desktop named W7PUBLIC1 registers W7PUBLIC1.wheatonma.edu in DNS with IP 10.0.0.1. The problem is, with subsequent rebuilds of that pool the desktops cannot re-register their new IP addresses because the machine account that registered the first time is different. For example, during a rebuild W7PUBLIC1 gets 10.0.0.2 but it can't register it because it already exists in DNS and was created by a different AD machine account.
I "think" I could configure our DHCP server to register DNS entries instead of letting the clients do it but I've never tried it. I also thought of turning on the WINS service on the print server and having the clients register with it and point the print server at it but that is super old school.... not sure if I want to go there.
We are running View 5.2
Any thoughts?
Thanks!