XP sp3 msi through GP

[Guest Thomas Sonderman]

is there a way to push XP sp3 from a 2003 server?

[Guest PL3NTY]

Re: XP sp3 msi through GP

 

On 29 Apr, 21:19, Thomas Sonderman <trsond...@gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a way to push XP sp3 from a 2003 server?

 

You can use WSUS ... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

[Guest Thomas Sonderman]

Re: XP sp3 msi through GP

 

On Apr 29, 3:43 pm, PL3NTY <pl3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 Apr, 21:19, Thomas Sonderman <trsond...@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > is there a way to push XP sp3 from a 2003 server?

>

> You can use WSUS ...http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx

 

actually I was looking more towards GP as the IT guy there doesn't

want a WSUS server for some reason. I have not seen an msi for sp3 yet

but figure there is one.

[Guest DevilsPGD]

Re: XP sp3 msi through GP

 

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Thomas Sonderman <trsonderm@gmail.com> wrote:

>actually I was looking more towards GP as the IT guy there doesn't

>want a WSUS server for some reason. I have not seen an msi for sp3 yet

>but figure there is one.

 

I haven't seen one either, but it's really too soon to expect much. That

being said, I'd be a little concerned about a network of any size

without a patch deployment system of some sort, and WSUS is both easy

and free.

[Guest Florian Frommherz [MVP]]

Re: XP sp3 msi through GP

 

Howdie!

 

Thomas Sonderman schrieb:

> is there a way to push XP sp3 from a 2003 server?

 

If I remember right, there was a MSI package for SP2 on XP. At least you

could unpack the exe to an administrative installation point.

 

Apart from that, I'm not sure if I wanted my machines download a 300MB

chunk monday morning when people wait for their desktops to start. WSUS

is a somewhat more dynamic solution.

 

cheers,

 

Florian

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[Guest Maincat]

Re: XP sp3 msi through GP

 

 

"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message

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> Thomas Sonderman <trsonderm@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>>actually I was looking more towards GP as the IT guy there doesn't

>>want a WSUS server for some reason.

 

Get rid of him. He's an idiot.

Why do you think WSUS was invented in the first place?