We have tried the SUS and all that for patching. Problem is ourt firewalls here and the configuration. The IT department has patching systems, but once again our firewalls block us from being able to use those...and they WILL not understand that the systems I am talking about ABSOLUTELY cannot be rebooted ona whim. They run 24/7 and are testing teh whole time...to reboot these machines we have to get time from teh manufacturing floor so they are able to either swap the product around or if it is a quick reboot just stop at end of testing and then reboot quickly.

So we have come up with this solution. The main script works fine, I am just trying to make it easier on people to install this by cutting down on the preliminary work.

I thank yo ufor your suggestion though and i will see how MSBA will work. I have tried it before, but if I am not able to write a perl script to parse out a simple txt document I dont know how I will write one to parse out an XML file :)