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Pushing Patches Across a Wide Area Windows Network?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. Wrong problem... by zulux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're fighting the wrong problem.

    You're trying to push a mostly single-user desktop operating system into being somthing it's not: a robust, managable, network desgigned operating system.

    Of course ther're going to be problems.

    It's kind of like asking: My Hyundai Excell keeps breaking down and it won't haul 6 tons of gravel - what can I do to make it work?

    The real sloution, ditch the Hyundai and get a Terex . Ditch MS-Windows and get Solaris, SGI, UNIX, AIX. Hell, get Mac OS-X.

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