This is not really an SMS question, more of a generic patching question. We have SMS 2003, and use it to patch systems. I recently found out we have a large number of systems still at W2K3 PS1. Easy enough to push out SP2 to them. The problem then, is how to automate the application of any post SP2 patches. I can think of a few ways, but none of them great. For example, I can create one monster post SP2 package in SMS and have the SP2 package be a pre-requisite. The problems with that are the size of the package itself and how to get a list of post SP2 updates to include in the post sp2 package. I’ve also thought of doing this as a manual process and having us run Windows update after the SP2 package is applied. The problem with this is our change window is small, and the amount of staff to cover doing this. I’m sure some of you must have run into this issue before.
Any ideas? Thanks, Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
