How many boxes/sites are we talking about? Are they WAN-connected to your site? It sounds like a bad idea for several reasons and I don't understand why the patch management cannot be centralized within your org. Managing the outsourcer's access to the systems will probably be more difficult than just doing the patches.
RM
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:22:26 -0500, "Carerros, Charles"
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> Does anyone know of an outsourcing group that will only do the MS
> patchiness
> on the servers and let the owners of the boxes do everything else?
>
> We are looking for a basis of comparison and this consultant said that
> they
> don't have any competitors in this field. Either people outsource all of
> their servers, all of the services or they don't outsource at all. They
> don't know of anyone who only outsourcers the patching and monitoring of
> the
> boxes.
