Re: Windows hot fix installation problem

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:12:42 +0100

bearbaba wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> I 've a problem about hot fix of windows installation. My network client
> users can be only using user-right to login their computer in windows 2000
> domain environment. And I want to write a scripting when a user login system.
> The scripting could be automatically checking the system whether all hot fix
> of windows are installed.
> How to write the scripting? The most important things is which way can solve
> this problem?
Hi

I suggest you look into SUS to deploy security updates.

Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) is a kind of "Windows Update"
server you can set up inside your own network, where you centrally
approve what security updates is to be distributed to the clients.

The clients use Automatic Update to connect to the SUS server and
download and install updates that apply to that computer (note that
there is no Windows Update GUI available).

It is able to deploy updates even if the user is Power User as long
as you configure the SUS client to use AUOptions 4 (automatic
download and scheduled installation).

More here:

Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx

Software and patch management with Software Update Services,
windows update and SMS
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/sms/tnt1-95.mspx

Patch Management Using Microsoft Software Update Services - Operations Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/mo/swdist/pmsus/pmsus251.mspx

Note that the current version will only install critical updates and
security rollup packages (SRPs), as well as SP4 for Win2k and SP1/SP2
for WinXP.

A new version is in beta now (SUS 2.0, renamed to WUS), it will update
more Microsoft products, e.g. Office.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wus/default.mspx

SUS needs to be installed on a IIS server. Supports Win2k, WinXP and
Win2k3 clients only. SP1/2 for WinXP and SP3/4 for Win2k installs the
WU/SUS client as default.

Fyi, there is a separate newsgroup for SUS:

microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

URL to the group softwareupdatesvcs for those who uses the Web
interface to access the newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

A Web site about SUS with a FAQ and a SUS forum:
http://www.susserver.com/

More SUS Web sites:
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/sus/faq.html
http://www.faqshop.com/sus/default.htm 

-- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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