RE: Mass deployment of security tools

["Qazi, Reema" <reema.qazi () intel com>]

I know that you can do it using McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator, which is
a management tool that will allow you to deploy software to however many
machines from one console/server. Other than that, I'm not aware of any
other tool.

RQ.
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:19 PM
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Subject: Mass deployment of security tools

Hi all,

Forgive me if this is the wrong mailing list, please point me in the 
right direction if so.

I have been tasked with a project of installing various security 
applications remotely to the desktop, without visiting the individual 
PC's i.e. avoiding sneakernet. I was wondering what the best tool out 
their is for this task? Group policy? Software restriction policies? 
Zen? Altiris? etc. I am open to all suggestions.

(Some background)

I want to install  a number of security applications to windows PC's 
simultaneuosly either without user intervention ( no user is an 
admin/power user etc. ), or by allowing users to install it themselves. 
Software ranges from the basic to more complicated specialist apps etc.

What are my best options?

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