Tortise@Paradise
tortise at paradise.net.nz
Thu Aug 28 05:06:51 CDT 2003
RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures - Windcows Updatesmmm Seems there are two options - control panel / Automatic updates / "Download the updates automatically and notify me again before installing them on my computer" - But where does this save the files??? There is no option given. The beauty of this is it is automatic and does not involve the very manual process of going to the Microsoft download site (2nd option) and selecting stuff to download. But perhaps this is a little ahead of what is available??? (I'd like to select them at this point and copy the files I want to other PC's) I must say the NAV updates seem to work pretty well, need the occasional re-boot, but are pretty reliable. Presumably this model has impressed Microsoft as being workable. Kind regards, David Engines2Go - Now THAT's a Search Engine! Automated major search engine manager Makes searching quicker and easier - Have you tried it? http://www.engines2go.com/ http://www.cheqsoft.com/ The home of Clipboard Express, MP3 Detective, TimesOwn and Break Reminder. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Tydda To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures - Windcows Updates If you go to www.microsoft.com/downloads you can find all the big downloads there. Download them and save them onto a central pc/file server and share them across the network. That's what I do at work... Got SP4, ie6 sp1, directx9.0b etc... I only download the smaller updates and driver files on individual pc's. If you have a windows 2000 server (running the server edition of the software), you might want to look into the SUS (System Updates Service) at microsoft.com. I've been looking at implementing it here, but they seem reluctant to give me a new server just to install updates. I might point out how if I could have got all the lovsan patches on quicker, we might not have lost a couple of days to repatching and virus scanning everything again :-) Jon -----Original Message----- From: Tortise at Paradise [mailto:tortise at paradise.net.nz] Sent: 28 August 2003 00:05 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures - Windcows Updates Hi I am experimenting with Windows Updates. What I'd like to know, is, given they can be such HUGE files how do I manage the loading i.e. can one machine download them, hold them, (As is an option) and then they be applied to all machines my side of the firewall without being downloaded by each of em? Kind regards, David Engines2Go - Now THAT's a Search Engine! Automated major search engine manager Makes searching quicker and easier - Have you tried it? http://www.engines2go.com/ http://www.cheqsoft.com/ The home of Clipboard Express, MP3 Detective, TimesOwn and Break Reminder. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures It's strange that so many people report problems with Windows updates. I have 4 computers - an OLD dual Pentium II 233, a "newer" Toshiba laptop PII 233, and two ~2 year old "modern" computers (1.4g AMD Athlon - "homebuilt"). I run windows update religiously and have never had a problem on any of them. Win2K Pro, Office 97/2k/XP, NAV, etc. Further I was the Sys Admin for the screw company and regularly updated their ~12 computers - Gateway / Dell. Always just applied all SPs, updates. Always worked. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. Registered in England and Wales No 4057291 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/dba-tech/attachments/20030828/ea2f22e9/attachment.html>