RE: it.shavlik.com

2011-09-01 Thread Lists - Level Five
tches 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.shavli

Re: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-29 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
have you experimented with wsusoffline ? -- Espi 2011/8/22 Paul Hutchings > 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 > interactively and kic

Re: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Dean Cunningham
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 ca

Re: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
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. http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/13/use-powershell-to-audit-and-install-wind

RE: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread pdw1914
utchi...@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 machin

RE: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Hutchings
: Sherry Abercrombie [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

RE: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
ed 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 > Subject: it.shavlik.com > > I wondered if anyone uses this service? > > I'm looking for a low

RE: it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Subject: it.shavlik.com 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 interactively and kick off patching, but don't really want to tell WSUS t

it.shavlik.com

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Hutchings
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 interactively and kick off patching, but don't really want to tell WSUS to automatically install patches, I wan