Windows Updates in a batch file?
JAD
machines.?
How do I get over administrator installation rights?
They are w2k and so is the server?
JAD
R Dunn
Try my VBScript hotfix installation system...
The big difference here is that you would download the hotfixes into a
central repository to deploy from.
You could install remotely to systems that users don't have admin rights on
(I plan to update this feature quite a bit here soon) - the password is
still clear-text, but only on your PC (where you are installing hotfixes
from). However, if you have admin rights on the box (and the user doesn't),
your credentials are good enough to get the patches installed.
http://uphold2001.brinkster.net/vbshf/forum
In a nutshell, VBSHF is a vbscript-based hotfix installation system to help
system administrators and technicians update their systems with the latest
hotfixes that THEY specify without having to physically go to each PC and do
it.
Using a secondary file called 'qfile,' vbshf will query the list of fixes in
qfile and then query a computer (local or remote) and see if said computer
has them installed or not. If not, you can tell vbshf to install them (even
on remote computers, using psexec from www.sysinternals.com) and then
specify to restart/logoff/shutdown the computer afterwards.
Not only can you run the script to install hotfixes, but you can also query
the system. VBSHF will produce an HTM formatted page with the results of:
a. Total hotfixes installed
b. if the hotfixes you specified are installed or not
It's a very handy tool to use, and is pretty flexible, so you can also
utilize the script via login batch files or just as a quick tool to run
yourself.
Supported hotfixes are OS (for 2000/XP/2003), IE (4.0 and up), Windows Media
Player (7.0 and up), and DirectX.
Please check it out and let me know what you think...
Rob
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