Exactly my point!  Therefore it doesn't exist as it's not relevant
unless it's used ..

Having said that, no doubt MS would be clouted with some dumb legal
action over cornering the market in patching or some other such BS, were
the solution every successful and in widespread use ..



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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 15 June 2010 17:15
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Patch Management - again

It isn't.

The WSUS engine is more than capable of distributing and automatically
installing third-party updates - it's what's used in products like
System Center Essentials for the task - and MS created System Center
Updates Publisher (aka SCUP) so that admins can add the updates.

Third parties who refuse to publish catalogs SCUP can use (like Adobe)
are as much as fault as anyone else.

SCUP links:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb531022.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0446cce9-94a4-4
fb0-b335-e7516044063d&displaylang=en

On 6/15/2010 11:06 AM, Alan Davies wrote:
> And why is a solution like this missing from MS operating systems??

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