Re: Proxy server hit... Any ideas?

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:47:55 +0100, Toby Felgenner said:

> If you don't trust automatic updates, don't bother reading any further
> (then again, if you have 30,000 hosts how else are you going to do it?).

We're a .edu. That's why I'm laughing. ;)

> Setup a protected server to get the updates from M$. Then test the updates
> in your test environment. If the updates pass all your tests, then Approve
> and distribute the updates to another internal SUS Server. Your client
> hosts then pick up the only the updates that you have approved from your
> own internal SUS server.

Preaching to the choir here. I've had test environments whenever possible since 1981 or so. (For bonus points - IBM's VM operating system originally was developed so multiple teams could test MVS releases on the same very expensive box, and not everybody came to a screeching halt when one team managed to crash things...)

Yeah, 30K hosts in a *controlled* *corporate* environment using stuff like Group Policy to push updates and prohibit user changes to the software would be almost doable. But if you think I wanna deal with the "Joe Freshman got a new XP system for Christmas" problem when the students get back in January...

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