Comments on: Windows Automatic Update rocks! http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/07/windows-automatic-update-rocks.html Non-profit IT is technical social work Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brendan http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/07/windows-automatic-update-rocks.html/comment-page-1#comment-27 Brendan Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:14:00 +0000 http://www.todayicried.com/it/2006/07/windows-automatic-update-rocks.html#comment-27 My former company took over the IT support of a small government commission from another contractor that wasn't doing that great of a job. The office had about 25 users. After getting their servers and workstations patched up to current level, and taking care of a few other important projects, we set up automatic updates on the desktops. It worked very well. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, back at my regular office, we were losing a turf battle with our corporate headquarters that was in a different state. The license for the software that I used to use to patch our workstations had expired, and we couldn't get corporate to renew it. So, for all new desktop builds, we enabled automatic updates. It kept us patched while corporate kept promising they'd come up with a solution for patching. My former company took over the IT support of a small government commission from another contractor that wasn’t doing that great of a job. The office had about 25 users. After getting their servers and workstations patched up to current level, and taking care of a few other important projects, we set up automatic updates on the desktops. It worked very well.

Meanwhile, back at my regular office, we were losing a turf battle with our corporate headquarters that was in a different state. The license for the software that I used to use to patch our workstations had expired, and we couldn’t get corporate to renew it. So, for all new desktop builds, we enabled automatic updates. It kept us patched while corporate kept promising they’d come up with a solution for patching.

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