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Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

October 09, 2007

I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night, no matter how late, no matter how many people, no matter what! And on Wednesday morning, usually around nine, everyone wants to know the status of the deployments. For me I had some advantages, one...  ... Read the full post or  the 3 comments. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

SCCM 2007 - Client Push Installation Account

March 09, 2007

In SMS 2003 you had to specify an account with local admin privileges on the computers you were targeting for the client push. Typically this was an account that was in the Domain Admins group, even though it was not recommended. But because of local Administrator password problems, users with local admin rights and so on using anything less often netted very little success. New in SCCM is the ability to use the computer$ account for the install. This means that you can now use the SMS server's computer...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,