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

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

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.

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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.

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