Saturday, September 6, 2008

Re: PC Auto Updates

We've completely shut off Windows updates on our clients. We have Altiris
in place (for all sorts of different management tools) and one of the things
we can do with it is push out MS updates to clients. Similar to WSUS, but
it's integrated with our main management tool so it's easy to control. In
addition, we have a small set of machines (servers, desktops, and laptops)
that we push out updates to first and test and wait for complaints. Once we
feel like we are clear on those machines, we push the updates out to the
rest of the machines on campus.

Christopher

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Christopher Butler
Academic Technology Director
St. John's Preparatory School
http://www.stjohnsprep.org


>>>> Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> 9/5/2008 7:02 PM >>>
> With bandwidth always an issue, what have you decided to do with Auto Updates
> in Windows? I decided to try and turn it off this year on all laptops, and
> run updates by hand.
>
> Do most of you let Windows just do auto updates all year? Just download but
> not install? Other? Do some of you turn off auto updates? If so, how often
> do you do manual updates on Windows. Does this differ for staff versus
> student computers? Laptops (wireless) versus desktops?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
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