RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch

[joe]

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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. It is an award MS presents to folks for contributions to the community at large. It used to be primarily for newsgroup participation but has been branching out to listservs, web sites, and other significant contributions, etc.    Basically MS says, hey you are doing good things. Here are some nice little prizes keep up the good work. The prizes including a nice certificate suitable for framing; a summit in Redmond once a year for us to be brainwashed (err brainwash the execs heh), see the Dev guys; Source Code access to OS's (and trying for Exchange), and some other nice little things. Definitely doesn't work out to pay off in terms of money but if you are already helping people it is a nice add on. One other recent benefit I have noticed lately is companies asking if you are an MVP or specifically head hunting MVP's. Sort of like they used to do for MCSEs.   The site with info is http://mvp.support.microsoft.com. You can click on the link mvp awards up by the MS logo to see a list of all of the MVP's for the various categories.   This list is run by an MVP, several MVP's contribute heavily to the list...       joe [1]       [1] Microsoft MVP Windows Server / Active Directory (with MVP minors in Security and AD Dev) - three years running.   ------------- http://www.joeware.net   (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet  (wear joeware)       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch On another note what is a MS-MVP     Lynden From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch   More public info will be forthcoming after this week's Microsoft Management Summit.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch Where can I find out more information on SUS version 2     Lynden From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch   I'm running SUS 1.1 quite successfully for about 700 client machines (and servers). SUS 2, which is due in beta within the next 30 days or so, is going to add Office and a few other products for patching, which really is all that SUS is missing.   I prefer the SUS methodology of an agent on the client that pulls down the updates as they are available - we have a lot of highly mobile users so that really makes things work well for us. Things like HKNetCheck require the box be online when you push the patches, which doesn't work well in a lot of environments.   Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Cariglia, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch I am in the process of looking at alternatives to distribute/manage Microsoft patches.  We have SUS running in a lab setup and it seems alright.  My question is are there superior products out there that someone has used and can recommend that work well with AD?  Running AD with an empty root and 2 child domains where the users reside, users are either Windows 2000 Pro or XP Pro.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.             Thank You,     Dan