I do this sometimes as well, but it stinks that you have to roll your own
MSI's for the latest of Microsoft's own software.

Has Microsoft *ever* used the patch functionality so lovingly built into
Windows Installer themselves? For office service packs, maybe, but that's
it...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Musheno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:23 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: Remote deployment of hotfixes.
> 
> 
> Im packing my own msi's right now, Im gonna see how it goes 
> for a while, its just time comsuming to weed out all of the 
> changes that are made by other programs during a hotfix 
> install, but its pretty nice to just drop it into group 
> policy and let it do its trick.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Malayter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:12 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: Remote deployment of hotfixes.
> 
> 
> The same... we use login scripts under group policy. 
> 
> It would make sense for Microsoft to issue hotfixes in 
> easy-to-deploy .MSI format, but no....
> 
>       -ryan-
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:32 PM
> > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > Subject: Remote deployment of hotfixes.
> > 
> > 
> > In my organization (50 users) I have the logon script check
> > the registry to see if the hotfix for a particular Q number 
> > has been applied, and if it hasn't the script will install it.
> > 
> > I'm wondering what the rest of you do (especially in big
> > companies) to keep all your systems patched.
> > 
> > thx
> > 
> > 
> >  __________________________
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