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January 9, 2001 at 01:00 PM
mteal

Staggering updates with kix scripts

by mteal . Updated 25 years, 6 months ago

On a network of about 40 people, I wanted to rollout some Office 2000 upgrades. Rather than implement Service Pack 2, which includes the attachment upgrade we don’t want to implement, I want to roll-out seven separate upgrades.

We have an existing logon script written using kixtart.

The proposed script for the roll-out is:
if $ras=NO
if exist(“c:\flags\office2000.0004″)=0
run ?@lserver\netlogon\Files\Office2000\of9data.exe /q?
run ?@lserver\netlogon\Files\Office2000\out2ksec.exe /q”run ?@lserver\netlogon\Files\Office2000\Uactlsec.exe /q”
copy “@lserver\netlogon\Files\Office2000\office2000.004” “c:\flags”
endif
endif

My question is regarding ‘staggering’ the rollout.

Is there an easy way to limit how many users are rolled-out per day?

Also, a couple of these upgrades reboot after installing. Is there a way to implement all of the upgrades at once and have a single reboot at the end?

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