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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Err by itwerx · 2003-01-06 12:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Put 'em in the login-script?
Or you could build a SUS server
As I recall it will handle 9x, although they only admit to 2K on this page. It is limited though. Won't do full SP's or actual apps.
Anybody have more experience with it?