Hi all, I have been fishing through the archives and have not found a lot of posts about this that were not 'golden oldies.' Do you guys use anything other than brute force to deploy software and updates to your client PCs? I would be interested to know what you are using, whether you use it for initial OS install, software deployment/upgrades, or other things, and roughly how much it costs. Also how many PCs you maintain. My preferences of course run to the free and Opensource options, but I am not sure how far they can take me. Thanks, Misty
Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been fishing through the archives and have not found a lot of posts about this that were not 'golden oldies.' Do you guys use anything other than brute force to deploy software and updates to your client PCs? I would be interested to know what you are using, whether you use it for initial OS install, software deployment/upgrades, or other things, and roughly how much it costs. Also how many PCs you maintain. My preferences of course run to the free and Opensource options, but I am not sure how far they can take me. If I understood you right: 1) for initial OS and software installation there is Unattended - http://unattended.sourceforge.net 2) for easy software deployment / software installing / removing / upadting on many workstations there is WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net Both are opensource and free, and will just cost your time. Tomek
Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:> Do you guys use anything other > than brute force to deploy software and updates to your client PCs?For now, in my opinion your term of "brute force" describes the free and cheap solutions for automated deployment rather well. Better software costs money, and the best solution ignores the market which has less than 5000 nodes. For now, that is the situation of the playing field. Today, your best option is to assemble tools and scripts together based on your environment in an effort to make your job a bit easier. Such implementations become highly tied to the LAN they were developed in, thus you will not find code out there that fits well and just drops into your LAN. Grab ideas, make some dust, and never forget that the sun will be out tomorrow! :-) -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems Remove the upper case letters NOSPAM to contact me directly.