Using ZEN to rollout Microsoft Service Packs 1

[ccnguy]

If anyone out there has sucessfully deployed NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 Service packs using zenworks, please give some insight and direct me to the correct procedure(site) to install correctly.

Thanks

 

[TheBoySmith]

if anywhere i would check cool colutions at novell.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions

they should/may have the info.



Lee Smith
Associated Network Services
Snr Systems Engineer
Lee.Smith@ANSPLC.Com

 

[Tcape]

We've deployed Windows 2000 service pack 3 to about 400 PC's

I just copied the extracted service pack to a directory on the server and then created an app object that executed update.exe and used the -u switch to make it unattended.

When the app ran, it just started up, checked everything it needed to check, then backed up the files it was about to replace, then replaced them, then shutdown/rebooted the machine.

It should be noted that once the service pack completed, it took a little over a minute till the machine rebooted itself.

There are other switches that can be used for different methods of deployment.

We'll probably be doing something similar with SP4 once I feel it's safe to install.

Hope this helps

Tony

 

[danodhil]

We used a method based on the following article. It took a while to get it all setup but we did get client update, IE6sp1 win2ksp4 and ZenAgent4 pushed out all at once. You can tweak it just to do one at a time if you want. It doesnt use ZEN, just a login script.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/zenworks/features/trenches/tr_install_zfd4_multios_zw.html