I can do many of them during normal business hours, in fact I can get it from 40 down to 5 by paying attention to what is going on here and sneaking them in. But when I can sneak them in is a moving target.......so having them on another screen RDP while I multitask works well for me.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... Same question I asked for Jim - why not let WSUS handle this? On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:23, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > WSUS. Set to download but not install. Then I RDP and hit install. Saves > quite a bit of time since they are already downloaded. An improvement over > what you are doing, but still not perfect of course. But I am in full control > that way. We are smaller than many people here. About 40 servers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 12:21 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... > > What do you guys use to patch servers? I'm still in the "RDP to the server > and run Windows Update" camp. I'd love a free solution to do this en-mass, if > somebody knows one. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kurt Buff > [mailto:[email protected]] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 > 08:03:50 -0700 > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... > > >> Unfortunately, I can't move quite that fast. We're pretty much a 24x5 >> shop, with offices overseas, and I have to give more notice than >> "patching now, please log off". At least I have most weekends to do >> this kind of thing... >> >> Kurt >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:24, Kennedy, Jim >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am all done! Neeener neener. :) >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:24 AM >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management >> list... >> > >> > Yeah, I'm pushing this out as fast as I can - I'll be patching >> > servers >> tonight, and the rest of the workstations next week. >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:14, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-RDP-Vulnerability-Exploi >> >> t >> >> -Co >> >> de-Confirmed-259060.shtml >> >> >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > --- >> > To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> > or send an email to [email protected] >> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > --- >> > To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> > or send an email to [email protected] >> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
