On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > > Just wondering... do you update these machines all at once? And... are they > on the same subnets? If so, have you explored using multicast packets? > That's the direction I saw updates going at my previous gig. > > -Rob Rob, We're using the standard Windows update server system. (I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the details of the process.) I don't believe there's any multicast going on. We think that if we can make the distribution of the updates easier, we'll be able to run the updates more often. We've seen a large increase of in the number of malware infections in the last year despite our enterprise-wide use of Symantec's anti-virus system. One infection late in the school year put our summer workstation imaging three weeks behind schedule. -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: timothy.d.wilson at gmail.com aim: tis270 blog: technosavvy.org