All our managed Windows Server 03+ machines are enabled for and connect fine via RDP. However, I would like a less heavy central management (command line based?) to mass manage and maintain the systems with the ability to deligate updates via unintrusive methods (i.e. no interrupt in our user productivity).
A traditional Systems Management Software with centralized console would be great, however, half of our 100+ servers and workstations are on their own local networks. Some are domains, some are in workgroups.
We have clients all over the US. The initial setup of course was not my decision, but I've now been tasked with finding a more streamlined method for sending out updates, patches, and fixes to the different types of clients we have with the different versions of the product we support. I was leaning towards something SSH based. I know that can authenticate using RDP without sacrificing security, and every client of ours is required to maintain an admin account for us. So plugging in all our information, what software can be best leveraged for our situation?
I've thought of Putty, but that only maintains open sessions with individual tabs. There wouldn't be a way for us to distribute fixes based off of a group we would pre define. Unless I'm understanding wrong. Could definitely use some help on this one, it's going to save a lot time for our IT team to get at least something basic in place.
It would be best if it could run off of the credentials we have stored for everyone on RDP, otherwise we have 300-325 clients that we'll need to explain the changes in their infrastructure, which will require planned down time for everyone. Trying to avoid that one.