full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?[Scanned]

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?[Scanned] 

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:44:33 GMT, "James P. Saveker" <james@...goat.net>  said:

> Also SMS(bits update) and SUS are not designed to bring machines up to date
> from gold install editions.  That should be done by slipstreaming updates
> onto install cd's and preferably in a corporate environment you are not
> going to be installing lots of machines from disks so the same principal
> should be applied to your RIS server or albeit image multicasting server.

If you have 30K machines, figure on several dozen needing to install from disk
*every day*, just due to hard drive failures and the like.

And it only takes 1 junior secretary using the old disks instead of last Tuesday's.....

The real problem is at the low-end corporate environment - how many sites that
have only 50 or 100 machines can afford somebody who's able to slipstream
updates every month?
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