Re: Patching 15 freshly installed XP Pro computers

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:55:30 -0600

chandrasekhar wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can help me out. I have to deploy 15 new
> computers in my office and these are all fresh IBM PreInstalled XP
> Pro machines. Does anyone know from where I can download all
> available patches since XP SP2 to one machine and update all of the
> machines locally rather than connecting each machine to windows
> update and have them download everything individually ?
> I need to do this as I have limited bandwidth (128kbps) and it would
> take too long for all the computers to download the patches
> individually.

Start using SUS (Search the Microsoft site for it).
Also, you can download them (and see a list of the bulletins) here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins
( SP2 was released in August. ) 

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