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by darry

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Hello All,
Can someone give me a solution on how to automate the installation of MS patches / hotfixes on workstations wihtout walking across from client to client.
Any help I will be obliged to you!

Reg
Darry

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by jeffg79

The only way I know of to "push" Windows fixes is to use Microsft's SMS. This is a semi-expensive program depending on the amount of users in your organization.
If you are using Windows XP, you can enable the workstation to automatically download any Windows Updates that are available.
The last alternative is to install a remote connectivity application on all your clients pcs. Win XP comes with the Remote Desktop capabilities, and 2000 server has Terminal Services. For any other platform,I would recommend VNC. This is a free utility that, once installed on all your workstations, you could use to easily "take over" each computer, and manually run any patches you wish. You would still have to run it on each pc, this would just not require physical access to each pc.
VNC is available at: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

by darry

The problem here is without investing further I would like to have a solution. VNC will really not help as I need to keep a track that who is ON & who's not!

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