And why is a solution like this missing from MS operating systems?? Well, because vendors with their own commercial interests (ie. spend as little as possible and agree on nothing with competitors) don't play well. If there were an open platform for "plugging" into a patch-updating type API, and all vendors were forced/coerced into using it, the world would be a better place. Well .. a bit anyway ;)
Secunia PSI does a great job at telling you what you need, we just need something that translates that with vendor supported methods of actually scheduling and installing the damn updates! :( With Open Source .. people *usually* want to do the right thing. Different world. a P.S. Shavlik, Altiris, and a hundred other 3rd party solutions do non-MS patch release on the Windows platform in the enterprise. You just have to invest in hosting it, learning how to use it, deploying it, testing with it and integrating it into your change control procedures ... -----Original Message----- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: 11 June 2010 23:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch Management - again Thanks very much for this. It's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Crawford, Scott <crawfo...@evangel.edu> wrote: >> Our only non-Windows computers are running Linux, and Linux makes >> patch management ridiculously easy. > > I'm sure there's countless places I could find this information, but > could you elaborate on that statement a bit? ************************************************************************************ WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the same and any copies. "CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
