Re: Batching Updates?

From: Ned Flanders (nedfla@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/02 

From: "Ned Flanders" <nedfla@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:52:01 -0500

If you batch run them, they will automatically wait for one to finish before
the other one launches.
Here's an example for IE 5.5 SP2:
---start----
@echo off
Echo Applying IE 5.5 Post-SP2 Hotfixes to system.
start /wait IE55SP2\Q318089\Q318089 /Q:A /R:N
start /wait IE55SP2\Q321232\Q321232 /Q:A /R:N
Echo Completed applying IE 5.5 Post-SP2 Hotfixes to system.
Echo Reboot to activate changed files.
qchain\qchain %systemdrive%\IE55HFs.log
pause
---end---

"Matt" <Mattfinn@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
news:2d9a01c237fd$c4015370$9be62ecf@tkmsftngxa03...
> Thanks for the in-depth reply - i had no idea about
> qchain. The problem i'm faceing is that you can only be
> installing one hotfix at a time, is there a way to set
> them to wait for one to finish before another runs? Thanks!
>
> -Matt
> >-----Original Message-----
> >"Matt" <Mattfinn@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
> >news:2af501c237d0$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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