Time for you to do some psexec goodness and learn all about MS installer command-line switches, methinks, if you want to automate your server "push" patching.
In the days before SUS and WSUS, we had a command script that updated servers using a comma-delimited text file "database". However the detection soon became heinously complicated. WSUS saved me a lot of stress. ---Blackberried -----Original Message----- From: "Matthew W. Ross" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:30:53 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... We do the same: WSUS automatic updates for desktops, Download but not installed for servers. It's just a pain when you have a lot of servers to hit. Even a command line way to do this would be an improvement... and I hope this becomes available with Windows 8 Server. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:23:06 -0700 Subject: RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... > 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! 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