Re: Batching Updates?

From: karl [x y] (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 07/30/02 

From: "karl [x y]" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:47:43 -0400

"Matt" <Mattfinn@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
news:2af501c237d0$be8dbb40$19ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa01...
> I've downloaded many security 'update' files (for both
> Office and Windows) and was wondering what the best way to
> batch them together for running on the machines in my
> office would be.

A common, easy and inexpensive way to do this is to roll out updates from
the network login script or a batch file run on the computer. Qchain from
Microsoft.com allows you to run multiple hotfixes at once with only 1 reboot
at the end, just run Qchain after the last update. You can drag and drop
the patch file to a DOS / Command Prompt window and add /? to the end to
see what command line switches are available, e.g. to make the update run
quietly without user interaction and without requiring a reboot after the
update. But test this first, as some of the patches this year require
different switches that are only documented here in these newsgroups in
order to run silently and without a reboot. The logged on user must have
local administrator privileges for the batch file and patches to install
correctly.

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