RE: Deploying Microsoft patches

From: Stephen Bock (sbock_at_smchcn.net)
Date: 07/11/03

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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:40:03 -0500

    I read somewhere that you cannot use the SUS on a domain controller. I just
    recently installed SUS on my win2k server running AD, DNS, and DC. So far,
    i can't tell if this is working. I tried installing the client software,
    but it keeps on telling me that i need to be running windows 2000 or windows
    XP, which i am running the latter. Does anybody have any suggestions to
    tell is SUS is working correctly?

    Stephen

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Su Wadlow [mailto:swadlow@utdallas.edu]
    Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:28 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Deploying Microsoft patches

    --On Friday, July 11, 2003 2:47 AM -0700 Ronish Mehta
    <sf_mail_sbm@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > 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

    Microsoft Software Update Services.

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

    Basically a company-internal version of Windows Update. Note that
    you can't use it to apply service packs; but it's *great* for applying
    other patches. And it's one product that you don't have to pay MS
    for. :-)

    We've been using it for patch deployment for over a year now, and it
    works great. Takes all the manual labor out of keeping our systems
    up to date. 

    --
Su
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