Updating Non-Internet Connected Windows Hosts

From: Crist J. Clark (crist.clark@attbi.com)
Date: 04/15/03

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From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

    Anyone have some pointers on how to update some Windows NT boxes that
    do not have Internet access? Of course, the automated Windows tools
    want to talk to microsoft.com, but out security policy does not allow
    that. The number of boxes is limited, so the approach need not be too
    scalable and can't be too $$$ for just a handful of machines. However,
    going through the registry, writing down all of the versions, going to
    an Internet-connected system, looking up patches, downloading and
    applying individually is just too labor intensive and too prone to
    error.

    Doing a quick-n-dirty SUS server seemed like a good idea until we
    realized SUS doesn't do Windows NT 4.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 

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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
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