You are responsible for maintaining Windows workstation operating systems in your organization. Recently, an update from Microsoft was automatically installed on your workstations that caused an in-house application to stop working.

To keep this from happening again, you decide to test all updates on a virtual machine before allowing them to be installed on production workstations.

Currently, none of your testing virtual machines have a network connection. However, they need to be able to connect to the update servers at Microsoft to download and install updates.

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22 April, 13:36

You are responsible for maintaining Windows workstation operating systems in your organization. Recently, an update from Microsoft was automatically installed on your workstations that caused an in-house application to stop working.

To keep this from happening again, you decide to test all updates on a virtual machine before allowing them to be installed on production workstations.

Currently, none of your testing virtual machines have a network connection. However, they need to be able to connect to the update servers at Microsoft to download and install updates.

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Seamus Hardy · Answer 1

To allow the virtual machines to communicate with the Microsoft update servers on the Internet, do the following:

Create a new virtual switch configured for bridged (external) networking. Connect the virtual network interfaces in the virtual machines to the virtual switch.