WMI Filters vs Virtual Machines

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We've got a fair number of virtual machines, some under VMWare, some
under Virtual PC, and we're looking at rolling out Hyper-V shortly.

For VMWare machines, we're using a group policy to install VMWare Tools,
for all other types we're currently doing the additions manually.

Has anyone experimented with using WMI Filters to identify the type of
VM and install the appropriate tools/additions/whatever?

I've never used WMI Filters, but from some reading this afternoon it
looks like WMI Filters may be the solution -- The idea being that we
could apply a group policy to the entire domain pushing the appropriate
sets of tools/additions based on the machine type, rather then requiring
someone to move each machine into the correct OU.

Has anyone done anything like this? Any caveats or unexpected issues?
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