I use Update Expert by St. Bernard. Its not a bad product. It
categorizes everything for you and contains patches not on the Microsoft
auto update site. Definitely worth a look. I maintain about 300 servers
with it and it makes my life a lot easier.

www.stbernard.com
http://www.stbernard.com/products/updateexpert/products_updateexpert.asp

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson, Chris [mailto:CJackson (at) bridgecom (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:16 AM
To: focus-ms (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: RE: windows update

> Does anyone know if hotfixes can be downloaded from Microsoft, without

> using windows update, and SUS? Also is the new RPC patch available
> through windows update? It seems that some hotfixes do not make it to
> windows update, you have to go back and find the specific alert, then
> download individually form the KB article page.

You can download individual components for later install using the
Windows Catalog. FAQ here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcom

muni
ty/Newsgroups/WUFAQ.asp

--
Chris Jackson
Alpha Geek
Software Engineer
Microsoft MVP
--
"If you consistently have trouble finding Main(), I respectfully submit
that C# programming may not be for you." - Eric Gunnerson

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