October 2007 - Posts

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Patching and Communications by spruitt

Patch Management is only partly a technical activity. Good communications are at least as important, if not even more so. No matter how well you designed your deployment plan to support the needs of your...
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Patch Process Design and Communications by spruitt

Have you ever designed a patching process, only to find that users and managers complained after you implemented it, and no one supported you? Good planning and communications with the right people help...
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Recurring advertisements are required for patching by spruitt

My co-worker Shaun Cassells made an important discovery when we began patching with SMS 2003. When you advertise the patch update packages, you must always set up a recurring execution. The logic of the...
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Using psexec to install the SMS client by spruitt

Sometimes the easiest way to install the client may be running it with psexec. That's especially true if the machine hasn't been discovered by some mechanism. The options for doing this often cause...
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