Re: NT Desktop Patch Management

[Peter Choi <pchoi () WTC-INC NET>]

Tim,

I am afraid you are at the mercy of Microsoft.  They are no longer 
supporting NT, windows 98 and 95.  They want you to buy new OS.  Provided 
below is an excerpt from Microsoft website.

Regards,

Peter

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/windows9x/updates.asp

Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition 
(SE), and Windows 95 have reached the ends of their product support life 
cycles. (If you are not sure what version of Windows you are using, you 
can find out by following the instructions for checking your operating 
system version).
Updates that were provided for Windows 98 are available on an archived 
basis on the Windows Update site, and the Microsoft Support Web site 
provides a number of resources you can use to find help. 
However, Microsoft no longer offers technical support for these releases. 
Because of this, we encourage you to consider upgrading to Windows XP 
Professional or Windows XP Home Edition so you can take advantage of 
Automatic Updates and other security features introduced since the 
operating system you are using was released. 





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S. Peter Choi, Ph D., CISSP
Senior Information Security Consultant
WTC, Inc.
801 South Grand Avenue, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90017

(213) 689-5327
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Please visit our web site @ http://www.wtc-inc.net






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Hi,

Just wondered if anyone has a solution for automating the applying of 
patches to NT workstations?

we have a large amount of NT workstations at our University, whereby 
manual patch application is very time consuming, and getting the users to 
apply patches is not a very high hit rate.



Any comments or ideas would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Tim Lane
Tim Lane
Information Security Program Manager

Information Technology and Telecommunication Services
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480

Ph:  61 2 6620 3290 
Fax: 61 2 6620 3033 
Email: tlane () scu edu au 
http://www.scu.edu.au
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