Installing Hot Fixes Remotely

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I am in charge of 40 laptops that are spread out all over
the country. The only connection to the Internet they have
is AOL dail-up. The best way to send them updates is via
CD. The problem is that they do not have administrative
rights, so they have to call me and I have to use a remote
administration program to take control of their machine
and run the updates as administrator. Is there any way to
right a batch file or script that installs the updates
without me having to do them? The only restriction is that
the administrator password can NOT be in the script
or .bat file. I basically want them to be able to double
click on a file and it run the updates in quiet mode.
Please help!
 
What you can do is create a VBS script, and encode the script so that it can
not be easily viewed with a text editor. This would provide some level of
security.

Ozone
 
I don't know how to write VB Scripts. Is there a good
source for instructions on the web? Do I have to purchase
Visual Basic?
 
You could consider configuring the Automatic Updates feature, if they
are running either Windows 2000 SP2 or XP. The laptops will then
download and install updates from Microsoft automatically with no
action necessary on their part, and no extra permissions needed, just
a reboot. You just need to make sure the registry settings are
correct, and/or correct them, which can be done with a batch file or
..VBS file, etc.
 
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