RE: Deploying Microsoft patches

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To: "Ronish Mehta" <sf_mail_sbm@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:50:20 -0700

Try SUS from M$. Its free. You just set up your windows 2000 server as a
windows update server for your organization. Then you can turn on automatic
update featue on your clients, without filling up your pipe to the internet.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp

If you choose to use SUS, consider these caveats:

You can't use a domain controller (DC) as a SUS server, but you can use a DC
as a client.
You can't use SUS to deploy service packs.
You can't use SUS to deploy your own updates (you can use this tool to
deploy only Windows critical updates, Windows critical security updates, and
Windows security roll-ups)

A good article about SUS setup and maintenance:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=26752

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronish Mehta [mailto:sf_mail_sbm@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:47 AM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Deploying Microsoft patches

Hi,
there are about 500 pcs in the company that i work
for,
all of them are on Win 2K Professional

With this amount of PCs, it is very difficult to keep
all of these PCs patched with the latest security
patches

We have tried to automate the process by launching the
installation by using AD 'Startup Script'. However the
patch is installed every time the PC is booted

Currently we are deploying patches manually, and this
is very time consuming, and we are not able to keep
uptodate with the latest patches being released by
Microsoft

Anyone who has an automated process for deploying
patches without the use of Commercial tools for remote
installations?

Thanks!

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