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Subject:    RE: Patches  Management for just a few servers
From:       "Miller, Jeffrey (Server Services)" <Jeffrey.Miller () cmegroup ! com>
Date:       2008-11-25 19:15:04
Message-ID: 69C0DD7F0F285E4D9F167D375CE4A5780955687D95 () SMAPEXMBX2 ! prod ! ad ! merc ! chicago ! cme ! com
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So has anyone used WSUS in a larger environment?  We have around 4500 PC's and 1500 servers.  We are moving away from our current patching system to a new one, and it looks like everyone is talking about using multiple systems for patching and "Auditing".  I was looking at WSUS for the auditing piece of the equation...comments or thoughts?

Jeff Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Chapman [mailto:greg@mousetrax.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:00 PM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Subject: RE: Patches Management for just a few servers

You may find yourself marginally surprised if you take the time to set it up
and try it. After several years of using some other tools, we had a bit of
surprise when WSUS showed us inconsistencies in our patching. Suddenly,
comparisons between our old patching system and our assessments of our
systems made much more sense.

Greg Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Buis [mailto:vbuis@nlc.state.ne.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:50 PM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Subject: RE: Patches Management for just a few srvers

The main reason we haven't moved to WSUS--yet--is that our current system
works very painlessly, and allows us to also push out third-party patches
(including non-MSI and non-CABs) and handle other administrative tasks at
the same time in a very straightforward manner.

I see quite a bit of discussion on this list of various issues with WSUS,
which just reinforces my (perhaps irrational) fear of "blackbox"
systems.  We are also very small ( < 100 workstations ) and homogeneous (all
run the same OS) so my gut feeling is that WSUS might be overkill for us.
We may look into WSUS at some point, but for now there is just no compelling
need.  Please correct me if any of my assumptions/fears are not valid--I'm
certainly open to persuasion.

Thanks.

Vern Buis
se email owner-patchmanagement@patchmanagement.org


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