It sounds like the goal is making sure that all your (hundreds?) of PCs have up to date virus definitions.

This feels like longer than an 8 hour project and it feels like you won't accomplish your goal, if user's don't update with email notification, they aren't going to update with a popup box....

You might be better off using the your vendor's shrink wrapped central console . or switching to a vender like Norton that allows PCs to be configured to reach out and pull down anti-virus definitions directly from Norton's website.

If you are talking about hospitals and people’s lives (?!!), money shouldn't be an object. If you recently got nailed, your upper management should be open to spending some money to fix this problem. If not leak the story to your local newspaper

In a small setup, 5-10 PCS a home brewed script can work pretty well. –I’ve done it. In a larger setup configuration management by hand can get ugly. (I’ve seen it done)

Hope this helps



--mandog

In reply to Re: Small Project Definition by mandog
in thread Small Project Definition by jlongino

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