Updating patch levels on client machines

[DazzaC]

With the ever increasing number of patches being released by Microsoft is anyone aware of a deployment agent that can be used to deploy and append these patches to 300+ client machines?
I am having difficult finding an application that is able to detect which patches are missing and which need to be deployed?
Is anyone aware of any software that can be used to assist with this?
The majority of the client machines are w2k and NT4.0 machines.
Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

Look at SUS from Microsoft.

Does exactly what you want, is free and works fine.

 

[De8o]

I would also agree SUS is great, but to make sure you don't miss any patches it is also woth looking at hfnetchkpro from shavlik to scan the network to make sure you are getting all machines

 

[2cornot2c]

Never used SUS. However, I am using UpdateExpert by StBernard and it works great. I can scan all the workstations on my network with the ability to deploy, schedule, and select which patches to install. The software will check IIS, Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer, SQL and many more platforms for missing patches and updates.

Like I said, I've never used SUS so I don't know how well it works. I can only give you advise on what I use.