As promised here is a quick write up on how I am doing security patches for our servers now. Basically I am able to run the script during normal work hours and schedule the patching for the evening. At night when the patching starts I get email notifications with success/fail information for each server. I have been using this process for 3 or 4 months now and it’s working great.
So ya need to see what patches are applied to a few remote systems? Here’s a quick method using a VB script to do just that. The first batch file is just to get Script Zombie to execute the VBScript using cscript.
runPatchHist.cmd
@echo off
echo.
echo -Patch History for (%1)
echo.
cscript scripts\helpers\patchHistory.vbs %1
When using Script Zombie to apply system/security patches I was frequently checking WindowsUpdate logs on the remote systems. To help automate the process I create the simple script below. If ran from Script Zombie it will display the WindowsUpdate.log file in notepad for every workstation you have selected in the host list. The output is filtered using FindStr to only [...]
Current Version: 0.85
Release Date: 01.21.2009
Licensing: Freeware (Guaranteed Spyware/adware free)
System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 2003, or Vista.
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