How do you in-place upgrade your home workers?

[Siroj]

Hi guys. We are having discussions on what path we should follow regarding the in-place upgrades of the laptops from the personnel that is working from home.

All those laptops are connected through direct access and we have upgraded most of the laptops to build v1709 using a regular TS. Major difference was that at the time the personnel were at the office most of the time so we could pre-cache all data to the laptop when they were there. Now that almost all of our 3000 personnel is working mostly from home, the "pre-cache at the office" is not a valid option anymore. Alternatively we could download all data for the in-place upgrade through direct access but that's not what we want.

We are looking at how to cope with this now. Ideas are making use of a DP in CMG and get the required data from there. Or perhaps a DP in our DMZ could be an option.

What i am looking for is how you are managing this, what path have you chosen?