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Re: What is/was your work desktop? was Re: [LUG] SIMS

 
in my previous job we used windows 2000 terminal server and the server would frequently reboot itself after an update had been applied leaving 40+ staff without computers in a busy call centre.

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 19:07 +0000, Philip McGaw wrote: 
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Mr Jane, heavaly hinted it was 3rd Party

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John Horne wrote:

| On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 15:50 +0000, Benjamin Matthew A'Lee wrote:
|
|> Sorry, didn't explain it very well.  All the Uni's XP boxes have
|> some piece of software installed that reboots the machine and
|> installs any updates that ILS have decided are safe to use.
|>
| As far as I am aware it (rebooting) is part of the Microsoft SMS
| service used to apply patches automatically. Whether it happens
| *because* a patch has been applied (no good applying a patch which
| requires a reboot and then *not* rebooting the PC) or simply to
| ensure that the PC has any user-installed software removed I don't
| know.
|
|
| John.
|
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