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From: Crist J. Clark <crist.clark(at)attbi.com>
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 16:17:15 EDT


Anyone have some pointers on how to update some Windows NT boxes that do not have Internet access? Of course, the automated Windows tools want to talk to microsoft.com, but out security policy does not allow that. The number of boxes is limited, so the approach need not be too scalable and can't be too $$$ for just a handful of machines. However, going through the registry, writing down all of the versions, going to an Internet-connected system, looking up patches, downloading and applying individually is just too labor intensive and too prone to error.

Doing a quick-n-dirty SUS server seemed like a good idea until we realized SUS doesn't do Windows NT 4.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     
cjc(at)freebsd.org

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