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I have a rather time-consuming problem and am needing assistance figuring out this one nagging issue.

I run a company that does software training on cloud hosted VM's that are spun up from templates. My template has all of my software installed, including the Remote Utilities Host. On the VM network, I have my private host with a shared address book. My students are given a pre-configured RU Portable that signs them into the server, syncs the address book, and we're up and running. At the end of the course, the machines are destroyed and new VM's spun up for the next class.

Here's the problem:

When I spin up, say, 10 VM's and they power up, the server grabs em and adds them to the address book, so far so good. The problem is that they all have the same ID, which jumbles things up for the server and the address book. I have to manually go into each VM before the course, get a new ID on each VM, and then the address book sorts itself out.

Is there a way I can set something in the task scheduler so that on first boot, RU host reaches out to the private server and registers it's new ID on first boot? I know there's an MSI that can be created, but the students have to accept and run it and it has created more headaches than it has solved in this application.

Thank you for your help!