Re: windows 98 administering automatic updates centrally

From: Tim Brown (tbrown@mjsoffe.com)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: "Tim Brown" <tbrown@mjsoffe.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:08:06 -0400

Is there a way to distribute patches or software to windows 98 clients? I
might convince the board to give me licenses to connect to the server on a
domain but getting them to upgrade all of the clients to w2k or XP would be
extremely costly.

"Rich Benack [MS]" <richbe@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:uR2$EoLaCHA.1556@tkmsftngp08...
> Unfortunately most patch management solutions (SMS, MSUS) use a central
> server to distribute paches.
>
> Rich
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
>
> "Tim Brown" <tbrown@mjsoffe.com> wrote in message
> news:uhc0enKaCHA.392@tkmsftngp09...
> > Many companies are still using windows 98, including ours. I was just
> > wondering what everyone was doing to automate updates so that security
> > patches are kept up to date. Do we really have to rely on our end users
> to
> > update their computers or is there another way of pushing updates out to
> > them? Is there any way in a peer to peer or must we go into domains?
> >
> >
>
>

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