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Mellon Financial uses Altiris to update desktops

The software (Altiris) helped Mellon easily handled the date change for daylight-saving time , which this year took place on March 11, a few weeks earlier than usual, Smith said. That project involved about 50,000 updates on 20,000 desktops and other client machines, and it was completed in only 48 hours...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 04-24-2007
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
Just a thought...

Folks are still complaining about the 100% CPU utilization for ITMU, even after the KB updates and Microsoft patch releases. Microsoft is continuing to work on the issue, but after thinking a bit about something, I’m a bit baffled: It’s funny — Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-21-2006
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
Hotifxes released for MS06-040 and MS06-042 that address two specific and different issues.

In an effort to try to keep you proactively notified of issues or shifts in information being delivered around this month's security updates I wanted to provide you with the following updated and additional information. MS06-040 includes an update to netapi32.dll which may cause some Java applications...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-13-2006
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
KB 924054 released

We have just released KB 924054 at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924054 titled "Programs that request lots of contiguous memory may fail after you install security update 921883 (MS06-040) on a Windows Server 2003 SP1-based computer" This hotfix is meant to only address the issue reported as part...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-12-2006
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
Microsoft Follow-up survey

Based on the responses from the previous survey on Microsoft Software and Security Updates (which you can still participate in, by the way), Microsoft has a follow-up survey they need you to take. You can find the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=571162237817 There are only 7 questions...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-08-2006
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
The Microsoft folks love us...

Here’s some goodness for the myITforum.com crowd. There’s some reformatting to do, but the Microsoft folks have given us access to the vLabs… http://www.myitforum.com/vlabs/msvlabs.asp

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-08-2006
Filed under: Messaging, Office, Patch Management, Scripting, Security, Software, Systems Management, Windows, Windows Mobile, Training
BITS is hacked!

This is actually pretty huge news… Stealing Windows' BITS gets bad code past any firewall

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-11-2007
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management, Windows
Problems: Latest WSUSScan Cab

Urgent: WSUSScan.cab and MSSecure.xml are delayed due to an issue with the release process.

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-11-2006
Filed under: Patch Management, Security, Systems Management
Sunbelt Software's System Admin checklists

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/sysadminchecklist.htm

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-02-2006
Filed under: Database, Hardware, Networking, Patch Management, Security, Systems Management, Windows

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