Re: worksations automatic updates

["Jeff Pricher" <JeffPricher () yahoo com>]

I think Windows Update Server is your answer. It's free, downloads all
patches to a central location and the installation configuration and time is
all configurable through GPO. It is very easy to get up and running.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juan B" <juanbabi () yahoo com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:15 PM
Subject: worksations automatic updates


> I have a solotion fot my It manager about updating the
> pc's in the company.He says that he doesnt have much
> time left to update them.
>
> We can do like this:
>
>
>
> There is a possibility to configure each workstation
> to download and install the updates in another time.
>
>
>
> We can schedule 5 pc's in the company (including my
> pc). To download the updates and install them on
> Sunday (for example).and schedule all the other pc's
> to download and install the patches after 4 days. If
> we see that the updates are doing something bad to the
> machines we have 4 days to stop the updates from being
> deployed to the rest of the company. I think we can do
> it throw GPO.
>
> What do u think about this solution ?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
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