RE: Program with Functionality Similar to UpdateEXPERT?

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "Jason Balicki" <kodak () frontierhomemortgage com>
> >From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com]
>
> >However if you don't want to do that, why not
> >just turn on the auto-update feature for all the workstations?
>
> Because automatic updates are dangerous.  I need to test the
> updates in our specific environment before I apply them
> network-wide.
>
> Microsoft updates have broken things before (811493 for example)
> and testing patches=saved asses.

That's sound planning. Hmm, have you considered using samba 3.0 to deploy 
them using group policy objects, or you could download and distribute using 
logon scripts, or you could probably write a perl program to distribute it 
for you, etc. etc.  What I do is use my workstation as the patch test bed.

> And in regards to an "all MS" shop -- yeah, only one would be
> needed.  But it's a slippery slope.  :)

Hehe that's true.  I don't have any choice here, some of our apps only run 
on MS OS.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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