Robert
December 14th 03, 02:08 PM
The best way is to get TechNet.. otherwise you will spend
all your time trying to organize the 30,000 possible
downloads and patches...
>-----Original Message-----
>We are running a Windows2000 Server with WindowsXP
>clients in a manufacturing environment. We do not allow
>Internet access for every WindowsXP workstation on the
>factory floor. Users that do have Internet access are
>required to authenticate before the firewall allows the
>connection.
>
>Is there a way to grab the critical updates from
>Microsoft's site and store them on our server? Then we
>could schedule our WindowsXP boxes to get their updates
>from our server... which eliminates the need for those
>workstations to authenticate and clog our Internet
>bandwidth. Is there any other way this is being done?
>.
>
all your time trying to organize the 30,000 possible
downloads and patches...
>-----Original Message-----
>We are running a Windows2000 Server with WindowsXP
>clients in a manufacturing environment. We do not allow
>Internet access for every WindowsXP workstation on the
>factory floor. Users that do have Internet access are
>required to authenticate before the firewall allows the
>connection.
>
>Is there a way to grab the critical updates from
>Microsoft's site and store them on our server? Then we
>could schedule our WindowsXP boxes to get their updates
>from our server... which eliminates the need for those
>workstations to authenticate and clog our Internet
>bandwidth. Is there any other way this is being done?
>.
>