Centrally installing software

There are a series of applications that you can use including: SMS 2.0 (Microsoft), Zen Works 7 (?)(Novell and yes, it still can be install on a Windows Network) Tivoli (IBM), and I think HP Open Veiw (HP) will allow you to do remote installs. Mostof these applications are expensive to deploy and are most effective in large networks. If you move to a Windows 2000 AD Network, you can push updates via Active Directory.

The best software I have seen for this sort of thing is Symantec Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition. Provided the hardware is the same or only slightly different, you can push any app, any update, anything from the server to whichever PC(s) you want. It's also a great tool for when a PC of yours crashes big time because you can store an image of the drive and just push it back to the crashed PC. Hope that helps a bit.

The software we use is NSM ( Network Support Manager ).

Not sure what AV you are using but McAffee as a management console that allows you update the user machines remotely.

I have got a crude but entirely inexpensive method for this. You can use VNC (search for VNC in google) to do this. VNC is a remote control software very much like PCAnywhere, but its entirely free of cost. Install VNC on all your clients, this should be a one time job. Then whenever you want to install any software on any of the clients you can remotely control the client machine through VNC. And to top this all, VNC works through your web browser too.

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