RE: pushing updates to windows clients

["Depp, Dennis M." <deppdm () ornl gov>]

If you are really looking for a push technology, SUS is not it.  SUS
utilizes a pull technology where the client requests the updates from
the SUS server.  The end result is the client gets patch with the
appearance of the patches being pushed.

Denny 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raoul Armfield [mailto:armfield () amnh org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:57 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: pushing updates to windows clients

We are in the process of testing various ways to keep our windows
clients up to date with patches.  We have a SUS server setup in a test
environment.  We also have Netopia's Netoctopus in our environment.  We
are under the impression that this too can push OS updates.  

I wanted to know if anyone has any experience with this.  Is netopia a
good product to reach this goal?

Raoul


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