RE: cloud-based patch and asset management?

2011-03-18 Thread gsweers
CTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/> P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 6:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cloud-based patch and asset managemen

RE: cloud-based patch and asset management?

2011-03-18 Thread Brian Desmond
Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cloud-based patch and asset management? I will point out that DirectAccess is a

RE: cloud-based patch and asset management?

2011-03-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
I will point out that DirectAccess is a great solution for this, if you have an environment that supports it. I've used Kaseya. It's ok. Not great, but ok. Shavlik is a pro product. I haven't used their cloud solution, but the onsite solution rocks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Ex

Re: cloud-based patch and asset management?

2011-03-18 Thread Jonathan
InTune looks interesting, but we're needing to cover between 800-1000 devices, including servers, and possibly network devices if possible (guess I should have covered that in my original post), and we need somethng that scales, as we're growing at a fairly fast rate. Thanks for the experience ins

RE: cloud-based patch and asset management?

2011-03-18 Thread Rod Trent
I can only speak to an older version of Kaseya - but I can't tell you the number of times we (company I was working for) had to go onsite anyway to reboot servers or fix workstations where a patch failed. Take a look at Windows InTune. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/pc-mana