Applying hotfixes and other updates across network.

[bjzielinski]

We have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server as the DC with 150 or so Windows 2000 Professional stations, a handful of NT4, 98 and 95 machines in a flat network (no routing or subnets). What I want to do is install hotfixes (SP1 SP2, security fixes from MS etc) across the network without visiting each station. I saw a demo sometime ago about file integrity or something to that extent built in where the server would replace files if they were deleted on the client. Can I push the service packs and updates to the other machines? Or am I dreaming? Bill Zielinski
bzielinski@co.midland.mi.us
County of Midland, Michigan

 

[sumaya]

I use the following Qchain.exe and Hfnetchk both of wich are available from microsoft. Qchain can be found with this link.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q296861

and hfnetchk can be found at

http://support.microsoft.com/

i made my own bat to install all the service packs and hotfixes with these tools give them a try



mike.

 

[bjzielinski]

That may work if I could figure out how to make it install only the necessary hotfixes for each computer, and only once, then I could put it in a login script. I tried using a batch file with Qwhatever_w2k_sp2_en.exe -z -m and then finishing them off with qchain.exe, however it installs all hotfixes each time it is run. Plus it even installed one I didn't need. Qfecheck looks like it only produces human output. I didn't see a difference between that an hfnetchk, which is what I used earlier to determine we have a mess of updates to install systemwide. Am I missing something here? Bill Zielinski
bzielinski@co.midland.mi.us
County of Midland, Michigan

 

[sumaya]

I had the same problem with diff fixes on diff computers the way that i got around this is to get the complete list of hotfixes. i used this program which is shareware called

http://www.maximized.com/freeware/hotfixreporter/default.asp

from here i had to make 3 seperate fix.bat files that i pushed to the 3 different groups. if the computers all ready had the patch it did not matter to me. this is one of my bat files.
i made a folder called patches and put all the hot fixes in it. As for hfnetchk it is newer than qfecheck

Hope this helps
mike


@echo on
rem Mikie did it.
rem This Bat file will install Security patches all at once
rem without having to reboot between patches.
pause

setlocal
set pathtofixes=c:\patches


%pathtofixes%\q276471_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q285851_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q285156_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q292435_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
rbupdate
%pathtofixes%\q296185_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q298012_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q299553_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q299687_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q302755_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q299796_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\q301625_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe -z -m
%pathtofixes%\qchain
Echo on


rem Please Reboot the Computer! Know.
rem
Pause