Have you ever heard of a NUP? From back in the BBS days?
NUP == New User Password
If someone gave you the NUP, then you were able to apply/create an account. Otherwise, you weren't able to even apply (unless of course the sysop broke in to chat while you were applying and you were able to woo him into allowing you to create an account with some great story or reason.)
Perhaps this is something to consider... although you'd obviously have to distribute the NUP for any new users you wanted to apply for an account... which might defeat your purpose...
Seagate and Peregrine/HP have some really nice, robust, Data Center Management software for managing 10s, 100s, or even thousands of computers and the software on them... you can push, say, SP2 to all 5000 machines, and it's like a few clicks to do it.. and it takes care of everything! Then you check the error report, etc. to make sure that none of the known machines encountered an error (or were turned off at the time), and then you address them individually...
With the # of servers that you are talking about, I wouldn't even think of doing it manually.. unless you get paid by the hour and literately have nothing else to do for the next few months (or year - as per your statement about almost being done after having started the update(s) a number of months back..) It would be well worth your investment to install something like this so that you could push a patch, or a simple update (like windows malicious software removal tool monthly update, etc.) to selected machines, or all machines, and do it from a single console..
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Have you ever heard of a NUP ? From back in the BBS days?
If someone gave you the NUP, then you were able to apply/create an account. Otherwise, you weren't able to even apply (unless of course the sysop broke in to chat while you were applying and you were able to woo him into allowing you to create an account with some great story or reason.)
Perhaps this is something to consider... although you'd obviously have to distribute the NUP for any new users you wanted to apply for an account... which might defeat your purpose...
Just a thought..
Danny
Amen!
Seagate and Peregrine/HP have some really nice, robust, Data Center Management software for managing 10s, 100s, or even thousands of computers and the software on them... you can push, say, SP2 to all 5000 machines, and it's like a few clicks to do it.. and it takes care of everything! Then you check the error report, etc. to make sure that none of the known machines encountered an error (or were turned off at the time), and then you address them individually...
With the # of servers that you are talking about, I wouldn't even think of doing it manually.. unless you get paid by the hour and literately have nothing else to do for the next few months (or year - as per your statement about almost being done after having started the update(s) a number of months back..) It would be well worth your investment to install something like this so that you could push a patch, or a simple update (like windows malicious software removal tool monthly update, etc.) to selected machines, or all machines, and do it from a single console..
To each his own though..
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