Re: Batching Updates?

From: Matt (Mattfinn@rochester.rr.com)
Date: 07/30/02 

From: "Matt" <Mattfinn@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:17:37 -0700

Thanks for the in-depth reply - i had no idea about
qchain. The problem i'm faceing is that you can only be
installing one hotfix at a time, is there a way to set
them to wait for one to finish before another runs? Thanks!

-Matt
>-----Original Message-----
>"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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