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Re: Proxy server hit... Any ideas?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:20:11 -0500
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:47:55 +0100, Toby Felgenner said:
If you don't trust automatic updates, don't bother reading any further (then again, if you have 30,000 hosts how else are you going to do it?).
We're a .edu. That's why I'm laughing. ;)
Setup a protected server to get the updates from M$. Then test the updates in your test environment. If the updates pass all your tests, then Approve and distribute the updates to another internal SUS Server. Your client hosts then pick up the only the updates that you have approved from your own internal SUS server.
Preaching to the choir here. I've had test environments whenever possible since 1981 or so. (For bonus points - IBM's VM operating system originally was developed so multiple teams could test MVS releases on the same very expensive box, and not everybody came to a screeching halt when one team managed to crash things...) Yeah, 30K hosts in a *controlled* *corporate* environment using stuff like Group Policy to push updates and prohibit user changes to the software would be almost doable. But if you think I wanna deal with the "Joe Freshman got a new XP system for Christmas" problem when the students get back in January... /Valdis
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