Re: Central software update

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:25:43 -0400
From: Anthony DiPasquale <agdrcc@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

Naqi,

I don't know about "cheap" (remember you get what you pay for) - but an
excellent solution is Altiris Deployment Server (www.altiris.com).
They license based on how many workstations you plan to manage.. so
depending on the number of stations and your budget you might be able
to fit it in. I believe they offer a 30-day trial license, but I'm not
sure how many stations it will allow you to manage . There is also the
argument of the amount of labor it will save if you need to make a
pitch to purchasing people. It makes handling disk imaging and
software deployment a snap, and includes remote control features to
power on/power off machines and even connect to them with a VNC like
program. It can be set up to use multicasting which will allow you to
image or deploy to a large number of machines with minimal network
impact. There are tons and tons of other features, but you can read
about those yourself on their website. For example, I was able to make
a "Rapid Install" (be sure to read about Rapid Install while you're
there..) package of the latest two Windows updates yesterday and had it
deployed to 70 XP machines... a project that took less than 30 minutes
start to finish - and would have taken only marginally longer if I had
twice or even three times as many machines to work with.

-Anthony

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:35 PM, snaqi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1- Is there any good and cheap utility in your mind to Install, Audit
> or
> update software from a central machine to all network machines except
> Microsoft SMS or Norton Ghost EnterpriseEdition. (For Windows)
>
> Naqi
>
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