Originally posted by: Soggysocks
Auto updates are for those to stupid or to busy to check for themselves.
So..if you don't know how...or are to busy to update you computer....i would turn it off.
Then you won't have a problem.
Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Originally posted by: Soggysocks
Auto updates are for those to stupid or to busy to check for themselves.
So..if you don't know how...or are to busy to update you computer....i would turn it off.
Then you won't have a problem.
I disagree, when did automation become a bad thing? Why should I have to manually go to all my machines and run windows update when it can do it for me? When it was first introduced I was initally hesitant to turn it on (out of not trusting M$) but after some of the big worms that have gone around it's really important to get those critical updates installed ASAP and manually doing it even on a small home network is a waste of time.
Originally posted by: Jeff7
So yes, the concept is excellent - automatic patching of PC's. Problem is, every time a new update is out, there's always a rash of some computers suddenly not working.
Originally posted by: Twioz
Since there are 400 machines running Seti I cant turn it off each time I want to update and I cant go to each of the 400 machines and manually update. In the future I will be setting up a ZenWorks server with Patchlink software to automate and centralize updates but until then AutoUpdates are my best option. Turn out it does download/update it just takes a very long time (we are talking a day). Also I am not the admin and they are not my Seti machines so I cant really mess with that part. I for one like anything that gets the job done and Windows XP does a fine job and I appreciate it more each day. Of course if it was necesary to switch to Linux tomorrow I would be just as happy after I became more familiar with it. Thanks for the input guys.
Originally posted by: Twioz
Since there are 400 machines running Seti I cant turn it off each time I want to update and I cant go to each of the 400 machines and manually update. In the future I will be setting up a ZenWorks server with Patchlink software to automate and centralize updates but until then AutoUpdates are my best option. Turn out it does download/update it just takes a very long time (we are talking a day). Also I am not the admin and they are not my Seti machines so I cant really mess with that part. I for one like anything that gets the job done and Windows XP does a fine job and I appreciate it more each day. Of course if it was necesary to switch to Linux tomorrow I would be just as happy after I became more familiar with it. Thanks for the input guys.