[ActiveDir] OT: Did anyone use patching software?

[David Adner]

Just curious, due to the discussion on trying to verify patched systems and 
such, but did anyone actually use 3rd party or even MS's patching 
software?  Or did you use custom scripts, manually updates, etc?

I ask because we had budgeted for patching software but management has 
decided we're too efficient.  We patched around 900 NT/2000 servers and 
15,000 workstations using various login scripts, batch files, psexec.exe, 
and plain old manual installs, etc over the course of 2 days.

I'm still in favor of an enterprise class patching product, if only to ease 
auditing and more granular distribution.  We go through significant effort 
trying to re-inventory everything, trying to figure out which systems can 
get patched first, etc.

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