RE: Deploying Office XP SP3 using SMS Feature Pack

["Threlkeld, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

If someone has SMS deployed in their organization its not prudent to
purchase a separate PM solution, especially when SMS works just fine.
In many ways its more robust than other PM tools because of the granular
targeting and scheduling that can be done for patch deployments and
control over poorly connected systems.  I'd agree that for organizations
that aren't looking for an Enterprise Management solution and just PM
Shavlik is one of the better ways to go however not for a company with
SMS already rolled out.  Patching with SMS can be done through a simple
wizard interface with a few 'clicks' as well.  There isn't a need to
query a job.  There is a need to have a properly working infrastructure
though but the same holds true for any product, PM or not.

Best,

Richard Threlkeld 
Microsoft MVP - SMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Orhan O. Bag [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:34 AM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Deploying Office XP SP3 using SMS Feature Pack

 Or,

Just use Shavlik HFNetChkPro, and forget about 'to do's, controls and
all audits of SMS.

SMS is a management tool, and ofcourse it manages patches; but it is not
the main target of SMS, thus it manages you more then let you manage
patches.

A tool like Shavlik's HFNetChkPro downloads & deploys ALL with a few
'clicks'. You donot control and query any job. But just control and
watch how is it going, if there is any error...

This is why I belive that it is better to use a tool which is designed
and dedicated for patch management.

Best Regards...


Orhan O. Bag
General Manager 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Threlkeld, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:34 PM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Subject: RE: Deploying Office XP SP3 using SMS Feature Pack

Office updates are currently done by tweaking ohotfix.ini.  A good
resource and toolset for automating this can be found at
http://www.myitforum.com/articles/20/view.asp?id=7080 .  

If the inventory for Office is not showing up (for office depending on
the status of an Admin point being set it will show as 'Applicable' or
'AdminApplicable') please ensure that the Office Scan Tool Advertisement
is completing successfully on your clients by looking at SMS Status
messages in the console and by viewing the %Temp%\OfficePatch.log.  Also
make sure that Hardware Inventory is processing the new class in WMI
properly by looking for "CLASS - Process Class: Win32_PatchState" in
%windir%\ms\sms\logs\hinv32.log on the client and verifying that
MICROSOFT|PATCHSTATE is uploading on the server in the
..\SMS\Logs\dataldr.log.

You'll also want to read the Microsoft Systems Management Server
Software Update Services Guide which has a lot of good information and
resources to deploying Office Updates:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2/smssusgd.mspx

Richard Threlkeld
Microsoft MVP - SMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Will Fix It [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:44 PM
To: Patch Management Mailing List
Subject: Deploying Office XP SP3 using SMS Feature Pack

Has anyone had any experience deploying Office XP SP3 using the SMS
Feature Pack?

We are using a patched administrative point, therefore can't install the
client version (OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-client-enu.exe, 16MB) of Office XP
SP3.

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837826

We would like to deploy the full file version
(OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe, 59MB) to our clients, however
the office patch scanning engine reports that no patches are available.
i.e. its detecting that the client install must be applied, however
can't because the admin point is patched.

Has anyone successfully got the full file patch to work using the
Distribute Software Updates wizard in SMS? Any comments would be great!

Matt

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