that have known issues with that particular
server (exchange, sql, etc) so you really have a hands off approach to patch
deployment.
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: it.shavlik.com
have you experimented with wsusoffline ?
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Espi
2011/8/22 Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk
I wondered if anyone uses this service?
I'm looking for a low cost but reliable way of updating servers as I'm at
the point where I have too many servers to want to log on to each one
In a previous life I used GFI LanGuard. Worked very well, was not expensive at
all and had as much manual control as you wanted or allowed you to automate the
process.
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sherry,
+1 on that. I used Languard and really liked it.
drod...@gmail.com
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On Aug 22, 2011 12:36 PM, Sherry Abercrombie sabercrom...@nhdallas.com
wrote:
In a previous life I used GFI LanGuard. Worked very well, was not
expensive at all and had as much manual control as
[sabercrom...@nhdallas.com]
Sent: 22 August 2011 5:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: it.shavlik.com
In a previous life I used GFI LanGuard. Worked very well, was not expensive at
all and had as much manual control as you wanted or allowed you to automate the
process.
From: Paul Hutchings
...@mira.co.uk
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: it.shavlik.com
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:38:36 +
If possible I'd like to stay away from anything that requires yet another VM or
installing on a box on the LAN.
I know Shavlik needs some software on the admin machine but it's
I saw this on the Hey, Scripting Guy blog. It uses powershell to audit and
install Microsoft patches, and it sounds like it may do what you need it
to. I haven't personally tried it myself yet.
Currently we use a notify and download to the servers and force a update
and reboot every second week (week 1 test servers, week 2 production
servers) using scheduled tasks and a couple of batch files
I expect you could setup these scheduled tasks on the server (with no
schedule) and then you can
