patch management
We have a small windows 2012 domain with windows clients. Is there a free way to handle patch management using a tool that pushes out updates from the server to the clients?
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Cliff Galiher
Nothing free that pushes. WSUS is free and good for Microsoft products, but relies om client queru/pull.
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So if I use WSUS, then I would have to manually execute it from the server in the client machine?
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You can also do a similar task by using a VBS script that forces the installation of pending updates on Windows computers connected to a WSUS server or using the Windows Update site. But if you don't have a WSUS working right now, it is better to use WSUSOffline, because you will not need to deal with updates approvals.