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RE: worksations automatic updates
From: "Keenen Milner" <kmilner () ghcllc com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:46:01 -0700
That would work but you could just as easily configure all the workstations NOT to do the install (there is an app on the Microsoft site that will prevent the install even if a computer does download SP2). Then download the network install and do a manual install on a few computers to run your tests on. This way you have control over when the SP2 install happens and can watch for conflicts during the install, if there are any. If you find no issues with the software you use, you can do a roll out on a wider scale either with the auto-update or continue to use the network install you have downloaded. Best Regards, Keenen ____________________________ Keenen Milner Lead Partner GHC Information Systems, LLC http://www.ghcllc.com ____________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Juan B [mailto:juanbabi () yahoo com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:16 PM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: worksations automatic updates I have a solotion fot my It manager about updating the pc's in the company.He says that he doesnt have much time left to update them. We can do like this: There is a possibility to configure each workstation to download and install the updates in another time. We can schedule 5 pc's in the company (including my pc). To download the updates and install them on Sunday (for example).and schedule all the other pc's to download and install the patches after 4 days. If we see that the updates are doing something bad to the machines we have 4 days to stop the updates from being deployed to the rest of the company. I think we can do it throw GPO. What do u think about this solution ? thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Check out our Advanced Hacking course, learn to write exploits and attack security infrastructure. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/InfoSecInstitute_pen-test_040817 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Check out our Advanced Hacking course, learn to write exploits and attack security infrastructure. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/InfoSecInstitute_pen-test_040817 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- worksations automatic updates Juan B (Aug 20)
- Re: worksations automatic updates Jeff Pricher (Aug 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: worksations automatic updates Keenen Milner (Aug 22)
- RE: worksations automatic updates BĂ©noni MARTIN (Aug 24)
- RE: worksations automatic updates Todd Towles (Aug 24)