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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. abandon all MS software by BroadbandBradley · · Score: 0, Troll

    at some point in the NEAR future, everything invested in MS software will only server to hold your company back. Upgrade to Linux now, and you'll have a whole new set of problems, and those are problems you can invest in solving, and that investment will last.

    Linux in 2003 makes #2 desktop (over Mac), in 2004-2005, I see number 1. How do I know this to be fact? I'm psychotic.

    believe me now, hear me later.

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  2. why are you asking us? by kevin+lyda · · Score: 0, Troll

    if you're using microsoft software, shouldn't you be asking them? surely you have some support contract from them.

    or do you have so many illegal copies of microsoft applications that you're afraid to talk to them?

    why should we help you violate microsoft's licenses?

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