RE: Relying on Microsoft Windows Update

From: Henry Sieff (hsieff@orthodon.com)
Date: 08/16/01 

Message-ID: <4D5D8A4276CCD411BEB400A0C9E105C402D026@chaka.orthodon.com>
From: Henry Sieff <hsieff@orthodon.com>
To: 'Patrick Andry' <pandry@wolverinefreight.ca>, "FOCUS-MS Mailing List (E-mail)" <FOCUS-MS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Subject: RE: Relying on Microsoft Windows Update
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:56:32 -0500

My friend, allow me to introduce you to the http://thethin.net, your
new best friend. Run by a citrix admin/guru, it also has great TS
links. http://thethin.net/tsdownload.cfm; scroll down to Microsoft
Windows Terminal Server Downloads Page
(http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/terminalserver/downloads/default.as
p), start there. They lag on TS fixes; sometimes. If any MS empl. are
currently subbed, maybe you could shed some light on the typical turn
around time between the normal and TSE versions of patches coming out.

(Its better in Win2K terminal services, if that's any consolation).

Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Andry [mailto:pandry@wolverinefreight.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: FOCUS-MS Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: Relying on Microsoft Windows Update
>
>
> I know that this is a newbie question, but maybe somebody can
> give me some
> kind of suggestion.
> I've been through Microsoft's site looking for all patches
> for NT Terminal
> Server, and have come up empty. The last patch I can see is
> TSE 6, which
> they say is based upon SP6a. I know that there have been
> several hotfixes
> for NT since 6a, including the huge rollout patch Q29944.
> Once I downloaded
> and tried to install the patch, I received an error message
> which said that
> this patch was not for TSE and could not install.
>
> I then checked Windows update and it listed 20+ megs of patches for
my
> server, one of which is Q29944.
>
> My question is twofold.
> 1) am I to believe that there are no more patches for my
> server even though
> the last patch was based on a patch which has had several
> hotfixes released
> since its debut?
> 2) Is it completely insane to let windows update run rampant
> on my server (I
> am inclined to say yes, but hey, what do I know)?
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
> Patrick Andry
> Unix Sysadmin <--perhaps that's my problem right there
>

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