Q: So Im not like what I inheirited . and wants to do a new solution.
This Windoze updates and office updates.
At least . Windoze.
I him to only push around 50 or so PCs and 3 servers at the moment .
Hit me with your best app . Im all ears.
~ Mark
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Software Updates Services is free and has been discussed much here and other places. Doesn't let you do everything SMS will, but it's not designed to. If all you're worried about is deploying service packs, hotfixes, etc and considering if you only have 50 workstations you probably don't have a huge budget then SUS is the winner.
I think guy has the best solution for my situation right now.
I dont have admin rights over the whole domain … or AD for that matter.
I should get my own OU, but that is another story.
I have my server running SUS now, and have all the updates ready to go …
All I need now is to have the domain admin to turn Auto updates back on for my IP range.
All my client PCs have this disabled and grayed out, even when I logon as a local admin.
We'll see if they honor my request ….
~ Mark
Re:If you have all windows workstations as Win2k or XP Pro in an active directory domain, it is very easy to implement a group policy where the updates are auto downloaded and installed regardless of whether the local user has admin rights. If the computer requires rebooting after applying the updates you can force the user to accept after a 5 minute countdown.
It has been working rather well for us over the past year or so. As previously stated your other options are manually scripting stuff via group policy, Microsoft's SMS or Microsoft's Operations Manager (MOM), or Dameware I believe.
Gaidin
Re:I should also tell you that all users are only logged in as a regular user ….
I would push these with an admin account … of course ….
Just thought I would say that in case it needed to be said.
Re:Software Updates Services is free and has been discussed much here and other places. Doesn't let you do everything SMS will, but it's not designed to. If all you're worried about is deploying service packs, hotfixes, etc and considering if you only have 50 workstations you probably don't have a huge budget then SUS is the winner.
Re:2 choices.
SMS
or
Tivoli.
SMS is windows native and cheaper to implement than Tivoli.
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