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On 20/01/2009 14:12, Tom Potts wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 14:05, Henry Bremridge wrote: > ... > >> 'Until late December, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust had a policy in >> place that would apply security updates across its network a few weeks >> after the patch release, and enforce a reboot.' >> > Its a while since I had the missfortune to manage windoze boxes but then all > updates came from ms - there wasn't a usable way of having a local update > server. There was WSUS but it meant another machine doing nothing apart from > costing server licenses and not doing its job. Has that been improved or is > it still a cash cow SPOF? > Tom te tom te tom > From what I understand it's still WSUS although IPCop with Update Accelerator will at least proxy the updates* which can be useful for small businesses who have a couple of PCs but no main server running Windows Server. * From memory it'll do Windows Updates, Ubuntu/Debian Updates, AVG and Avast. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html