On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 13:16, will hill wrote: > On 2003.05.06 09:47 Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > You can locally store and deploy Windows updates as well. And sure, I like > > Debian or Your-Distro-Goes-Here better than Windows for a lot of things. > > > > > Can you? I read somewhere about some odd problems doing that. Oh well, one > day they might make things easy. Nahhhh, they make too much money the other > way and that is the reason so many windows boxes sit unpatched.
Yeah, we've been working on setting up the software update service here. You've gotta set up a server that pre-downloads the patches, then configure the clients to use that server for the automatic update feature via group policy editor. So it helps having a domain to be able to force it without touching every box. Also, the feature only handles critical updates, not other things like windows media player updates or drivers (some may argue that this is a good thing anyway) -Tim
