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New Good patch manager for Windows XP?
No, apt-get is not an option. :)

I'm looking for something to roll out patches en masse to workstations on an AD domain. We're looking at Ecora patch manager, which is pretty damn spiffy for what it does, but it ONLY does what it does - you can't define your own patches, and you can't patch applications it doesn't know about. (Adobe Acrobat, for one)

SMS sounds like it could do what we want it to - but it might be out of our price range. Software Update Services 2.0 has been coming "real soon now" for over a year, and it also doesn't allow custom patching.

Anybody else out there using anything in particular?
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New I hate to bring this one into it...
But my favorite saying of yours, about AD and eDIR and how they rate...

Well, that *N* company has a REALLY SPIFFY product. ZEN or at least it was that when last I touched it.

It can do binary patches, replacement patches, verifies of patches... and it can also manage you installations as well. Each image can be built upon another image upon another image... etc

You also, create DIFFs of said images and apply the diff only as well. They also have a very nice "re-installation" setup that CAN BE completely Directory driven. Can also, remove patchsets as well.

This was all before the Security Problems in Windows was REALLY evident.
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New Would love to use it.
It's not an option. :P
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
New I did some research on this a while ago
The best I found (with enthusiastic references) was [link|http://nwc.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18402819&pgno=5|this]. Sadly, I was unable to purchase this as SMS will have most of the same features/abilities Real Soon Now. As soon as my manager heard that SMS/SUS would be upgraded some time in the future to maybe do the same things as the above product, he shut down the testing of the eval copy I had gotten and decreed we would remain with the MS vapor solution.
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New Shouldn't this be over in that other forum...? (new thread)
Created as new thread #190548 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=190548|Shouldn't this be over in that other forum...?]
     Good patch manager for Windows XP? - (inthane-chan) - (4)
         I hate to bring this one into it... - (folkert) - (1)
             Would love to use it. - (inthane-chan)
         I did some research on this a while ago - (Silverlock) - (1)
             Shouldn't this be over in that other forum...? (new thread) - (CRConrad)

Naive is one word for it.
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