Re: NT Desktop Patch Management

[Eoghan Casey <eco () CORPUS-DELICTI COM>]

Tim,

The Microsoft System Management Server (http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/) with SUS Feature Pack claims to cover Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003. I am not aware of any colleges or universities using this approach but that is not to say that there are none. Some institutions are using commercial enterprise systems management tools like LANDesk and MightyView to maintain Windows systems. Microsoft lists some other third-party patch management tools at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/topics/patch/secpatch/Default.asp

Is this what you had in mind or were you looking for something less comprehensive/costly? 

Eoghan Casey

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 01:30  AM, Tim Lane wrote:

> Hi,
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> Just wondered if anyone has a solution for automating the applying of patches to NT workstations?
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> we have a large amount of NT workstations at our University, whereby manual patch application is very time consuming, and getting the users to apply patches is not a very high hit rate.
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> Any comments or ideas would be very helpful.
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> Thanks,
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> Tim Lane
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> Tim Lane
> Information Security Program Manager
>
> Information Technology and Telecommunication Services
> Southern Cross University
> PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480
>
> Ph:  61 2 6620 3290
> Fax: 61 2 6620 3033
> Email: tlane () scu edu au
> http://www.scu.edu.au