Command Line Switches

[Erik Cominolli]

I'm going to have to deploy windows updates accross a
large number of pc's. I don't want to give all my users
an
admin password to install and I'm not going to go to each
pc myself. Is there anything I can do? What about a
command line switch? winupdate.exe -u admin -p password?

THANKS!!!

 

[NobodyMan]

I'm going to have to deploy windows updates accross a
large number of pc's. I don't want to give all my users
an
admin password to install and I'm not going to go to each
pc myself. Is there anything I can do? What about a
command line switch? winupdate.exe -u admin -p password?

THANKS!!!

If the PCs are all virtually identical - hardware wise - consider
using a ghosting utility like Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive Image.
You set up one box the way you want them all set up, then ghost the
drive, put the image on a CD (or CDs) and distribute it. Simple
instructions can help even an end user who is not real computer
literate place this ghost image on to their computer.

 

[Malke]

If the PCs are all virtually identical - hardware wise - consider
using a ghosting utility like Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive Image.
You set up one box the way you want them all set up, then ghost the
drive, put the image on a CD (or CDs) and distribute it. Simple
instructions can help even an end user who is not real computer
literate place this ghost image on to their computer.

Just to add to this - the hardware must be identical, not "virtually
identical". And you can easily do this with the Ghost Corporate edition
via the netcasting function.

Malke

 

[NobodyMan]

Just to add to this - the hardware must be identical, not "virtually
identical". And you can easily do this with the Ghost Corporate edition
via the netcasting function.

Malke

I thought that the hardware had to be identical, since that is what
the documentation says, but I've seen Ghost work on a box that was not
completely identical - it had a different sized HD from a different
manufacturer installed. Other than that, the two machines were
"virtually" identical.