I've played with it in my test environment and it works as advertised... Haven't deployed it in production because I don't have a server to put it on quite yet... (most of my servers are still NT4, though I'm getting ready to migrate to Win2k & AD some time early next year...)
Joe Pochedley "In the end, if you have cables like spaghetti on the floor and things only connect when you swear at them, your network is perfectly normal." - James Gaskin -----Original Message----- From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:48 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Windows Auto Updates I have downloaded SUS, but not yet configured it. Has one here actually deployed and used this?? Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial 503-675-5510 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 13:46 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Windows Auto Updates I agree with Martin on my personal boxes.. Let the service download the updates when I'm not paying attention and then I choose to, or not to, install them when I am paying attention... This also works well for small offices who don't have a regular admin and that sort of thing................... If you're talking about enabling it on corporate desktops, where the users aren't admins of the machine, the users aren't going to be able to install the update once it's downloaded unless you schedule the updates to install automatically on a schedule (then the PC has to be on at that time of course)... The other option is to install a SUS server (Software Update Services), which is free and gives you much more control as an administrator... See the link for more information on SUS... http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/susfaq.asp Joe Pochedley "In the end, if you have cables like spaghetti on the floor and things only connect when you swear at them, your network is perfectly normal." - James Gaskin -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:29 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Windows Auto Updates I let mine do the auto download, but its me who pulls the trigger. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:30 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Windows Auto Updates I've seen a couple of articles (one today in Winnetmag.com) that recommend admins enable and configure the Windows Automatic Updating service on their boxes, as a more-or-less painless way to keep up with them. So far I've been generally disabling that service on my boxes, is there a concensus out there of whether this a reasonable way to do it? A better way? David A. Florea, Sys Admin Private Consulting Group Inc. 503-972-1500 x310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them." ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
