Re: Patch Downloading from Microsoft

From: Laura A. Robinson (larobins@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 02/22/02 

From: "Laura A. Robinson" <larobins@bellatlantic.net>
To: "Samuel Zechariah Harvey" <slyde@polartek.net>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:50:51 -0500

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/ittasks/s
upport/corpwu.asp

Laura
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From: "Samuel Zechariah Harvey" <slyde@polartek.net>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:55 PM
Subject: Patch Downloading from Microsoft

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> Having just received Microsoft Product Security Bulletins MS02-008
> thru 0010, I went to download the patches necessary. In each bulletin
> it lists Windows Update as the *ONLY* means to download these
> patches. Does anyone know if this will be the standard, or if
> Microsoft is just releasing these patches in this manner? If this is
> a glimpse of things to come, what does Microsoft hope to accomplish
> by this? Do they realize how much harder this will be to
> script/implement/update computers in a large network environment?
> Especially if they have to contact Microsoft via the internet,
> instead of grabbing the patches from an intranet site? I really hope
> this is not a developing trend.
>
>
> Zech Harvey, MCP
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