Yeah you can just use WSUS or whatever the same way. I have a vbscript I use that continues to work. You can even login and execute the patches from the cmdline if you want I guess.
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Core How do people manage patching on Server Core installations? Can you just apply the GPOs for WSUS in the same way? How do admins "log on" to install updates? On 3 June 2010 21:02, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>> wrote: I put ALL DCs on Server Core given the opportunity. It also supports lots of other roles so... Personally if I worked in an environment where I had admins who were all sufficiently skilled I'd put every box I could on Server Core, but, I recognize reality. Very few places I've been where this would have been doable. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org<mailto:david....@nwea.org>] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server Core Would I be correct in telling my fellow SE's that Server Core typical uses are remote DC (along with RODC), hyper-V hosts and web servers? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
