Re: Hotfix Deployment via Login Script

From: Randy Snyder (aggie07_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:06:11 GMT

Jason wrote:
> For various reasons, I need to deploy a hotfix via a login script. Writing
> a script to install the hotfix is no problem, the problem is that my users
> are not administrators and the hotfix runs in the user context which means
> it's going to fail on all my user workstations. This is not an active
> directory environment so there is no Group Policy.
>
> Is there any way to have my script execute the hotfix using a different set
> of credentials?
>
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
Jason,

Can you provide the following information?

(1) How many client systems need to be patched, (2) is your network
setup as a domain or workgroup and (3) does the patch require a post
administrative logon after it has been applied?

Thanks,

Randy

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