How to Intall / Run Hotfix on Remote PC

[Rajiv Trivedi]

Dear,

We have Windows 2000 Domain environment.

It is a frequetly occuring situation that we need to
install hotfixes on all the Workstations in our domain.

How can we install the hotfixes on all the PCs remotely,
without disturbing the user work from the command prompt.

Regards,
Rajiv

 

[Ray at]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp

Ray at work

 

[tech]

Having your Endusers install and use Autoupdate may not be
in your best interest especially if your trying to control
IE Versions or Hardware drivers and service packs. Not all
patches work as advertised and may cause havoc wit hyou
machines if not tested. so.......If your handy with
Scripting try this.....

How to Use a Visual Basic Script to Install the 824146
(MS03-039) or 823980 (MS03-026) Security Patch on Remote
Host Computers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827227

The nice thing is with some tweaking it can be used to
remote install alot of software. BUT you must have admin
rights on ALL the boxes you want to patch and preferably
be on the same domain. Also it only works with Win2K,
WINXP, and w2k3. As they have WMI control features (Sorry
no such luck in NT4 and 9x products.

 

[tech]

Oh SUS is good too heh but if you don't have a spare
server box to play with and know what patches you want
then the scripts are handy.

 

[Herb Martin]

The two/three standard ways are Software Update Service,
Automatic Updates, and Group Policy software packages
in a Domain (assigned to machine).

Of these, SUS with Automatic Updates is your likely best
bet.

Download it from the MS Web site and install your own
"update server" -- you can use Group Policy to change
the server setting for Automatic Updates.

 

[Clay Calvert]

Dear,

We have Windows 2000 Domain environment.

It is a frequetly occuring situation that we need to
install hotfixes on all the Workstations in our domain.

How can we install the hotfixes on all the PCs remotely,
without disturbing the user work from the command prompt.

We use PsExec from sysinternals.com.

for /f %%a in ('net view ^| find "\\"') do call:Next %%a
goto:eof

:Next
if not exist "%1\c$\documents and settings\" goto:NT

if not exist %1\admin$\system32\schtasks.exe echo %1>>Win2K.txt&exit

:XP
psexec %1 -d -c XP.exe /u /q /z
goto:eof

:NT
psexec %1 -d -c nt4.exe -q -m -z

Clay Calvert
(e-mail address removed)
Replace "W" with "L"