Pushing out Software Updates

In article , Chris Stanley wrote: :We use Cisco VPN and I was wondering if I could use this to push out :updates to certain groups or users. I saw where you can update client :software but is that the VPN Client software???

Yes.

:I am using this in a :County Government and we have rural Fire Departments that connect to us :using VPN. I administer their reporting software and we receive .exe's :for hotfixes etc every now and then. I was wanting to push those out :through VPN when they login if that's possible.

The feature is not made for that.

".exe" and "hotfixes" implies Windows software, probably with them connecting to a Windows server. I seem to recall that with Windows Server there is a way to set a command to be executed at login time. That command could probably initiate the necessary transfers.

Chris> We use Cisco VPN and I was wondering if I could use this to Chris> push out updates to certain groups or users. I saw where Chris> you can update client software but is that the VPN Client Chris> software???

IIRC, this is only for pushing software updates to the VPN3002 hardware client. I don't believe it can push PC software.

Andy

This is not a Cisco question (since the cisco software can't help).

Look in some of the microsoft.public newsgroups. Maybe search Google Groups for [microsoft.public unattended software install] ["microsoft.public" unattended software install] without the brackets :)

Look at login scripts (if you actually do a network login). I suspect but do not know for sure that our VPN users log in locally to the PC and then just mount drives. I do not believe that this invokes the network login script.

Also:- Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) ships as part of Windows

There is also microsoft SMS, I think that it is big bucks and may be obsolete anyway.