Re: Batching Hot-fix installation

From: Chip Andrews (chipandrews@usa.net)
Date: 11/16/01 

Message-ID: <001c01c16e2b$5aa38700$af01a8c0@sqlsecurity.com>
From: "Chip Andrews" <chipandrews@usa.net>
To: "Riccardo Fontana" <riccardo.fontana@aaasgr.it>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Batching Hot-fix installation
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:15:01 -0500

Try Service Pack Manager 2000 at

http://home.san.rr.com/gravitystorm/

It does Service Packs as well as Hotfixes.

Chip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Riccardo Fontana" <riccardo.fontana@aaasgr.it>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Batching Hot-fix installation

> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if this has already been discussed.
>
> Is there any tool or method to create a batch to perform an automatic
> installation (i.e. w/o any user input) of MS hotfixes and patches ?
>
> I'm trying to automate the installation of patches on my network with
> HFNetChk and some simple command like:
>
> at \\computer-name 23.00 c:\localpath\batch.cmd
>
> Where "batch.cmd" is a script generated from HFNetChk result.
>
> p.s.: This method rely on the presence of both patches and scripts on
> localhost because at-launched application run as SYSTEM, and there is no
> way to have them access a network share.
>
>
> Is there any better way to obtain the same results ?
>
>
> --
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