SOHO patch management for Adobe products

to deploy software to machine, and without admin rights, it is either scheduled task based or agent based assuming system right. There are enterprise s/w deployment push down as well such as MS SCCM, BigFix, and LanDesk. But if you are into Windows maybe worth delving into SCCM.

SCCM 2007 is the next version of SMS(2003) and can be used for patch management also alongwith software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory. Most typical and recommended is that update be deployed through MS SCUP/WSUS to SCCM. For that, you need to setup a WSUS and SCUP along with SCCM server. WSUS is used to publish Microsoft updates to SCCM. For custom updates (from Independent S/W vendors) you need SCUP which will sync with WSUS and then the updates are available at SCCM.

For Adobe, you need to get the catalog for Acrobat/Reader and publish them through SCUP to WSUS. SCCM will sync the updates from WSUS. From SCCM the updates can be deployed to various clients.

https://blogs.adobe.com/pdfitmatters/2010/11/sccm-and-scup-catalog-deployments-for-acrobat-and-reader-x.html

MS SCCM also has extension using Solarwind
http://www.solarwinds.com/solutions/microsoft-sccm-patch-management.aspx

Hi, thanks for yout suggestions. I was hoping that there would be a simpler and free solution. I will focus on it this week.

Regards,
Jarda

Preferably plan for the long term and hr investment can be worth considering. The non compliance and breach impact cost more than the capital and operational cose