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by micky martins

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Is it possible to patch my windows 2000 professional using AD? If it's how can I? and where would I download those patches from?

I don't want to go to every machine on my network to run windows update whenever new patches are released.

Thanks in adv.

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by cg it

It's possible to install software across a network using .msi installation packages and a network installer program such as Veritas or System Management Server. Also, groups policy has software installation for client computers which you can use to send install packages to clients and which will install those service packs, hot fixes as client computers log in.

by cg it

To answer your question, yes, you can use group policy in AD to deploy software to users managed by group policy. You can customize it for either a particular user, group of users, a particular computer or groups of computers. You can publish to users[shows up in "add/remove programs" and can be uninstalled by user], assign to users [shows up on the desktop and can be uninstalled by the user] you can assign to the computer [automatically installs when the computer reboots, can not be uninstalled by user]

by micky martins

I know how install software using a combination of .msi package and group policy. What I want to know how can I apply it in the real world when dealing with windows update. If have a thousand computers in my company i don't want to go to very machine a run windows update, all I need to do is to download those update and use group policy to install it when every machine boots up.

My question is: where can I download those packages?

I also know about the new windows automatic updates that one's can configure it to download the updates and install automatically with windows scheduled tasks.

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