Pushing Patches Across a Wide Area Windows Network?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 6, 2003 @12:16PM from the dealing-with-the-vendor-imposed-patching-cycle dept.

meridian-gh asks: "Microsoft is releasing new patches and updates for their products continually. For those of us who have to deal with large, geographically diverse windows-based networks, managing patches can be a nightmare. You cannot trust the users to do it. Tools such as SMS and HFNetCHK Pro are neat, but incredibly expensive. Most free programs I have seen don't support Windows 98, which many of us are forced to deal with. My question is, how do you deal with the remote deployment of patches in a efficient (and cheap) manner?"

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and do what? by DrSkwid · 2003-01-06 12:49 · Score: 3, Funny

without tcp/ip it's probably gonna be tricky

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There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Easy solution for Windows by Axiom · 2003-01-06 13:08 · Score: 3, Funny

For patching IE/Outlook, simply use some widespread and well-known WAN patching tools: Melissa, I Love You, Klez to name a few.