Really? And how did you come to this conclusion? Last I checked, Auto
Update can download *and* install updates *without* user input. What's
more, MS encourages this. That said, I understand that MS actually
though about it and now will ask the user if they want it installed,
albeit without instructions on *how* to install it.
Bill:
Another troll is loose again not even running Vista. I give you guys in
IT a lot of respect and credit because on a work station in a network
environment there are no automatic updates to the work stations, everything
is pushed through by IT. The majority of the time there are no problems but
occasionally you guys lose hair or sleep. I agree with you about IE7 not
having major issues. I haven't had problems with IE7 in Vista and no
problems running the release version on XP x64sp1 or XP x64sp2.
Do you know WHY it doesn't need user input?
Do you know WHY you can deploy IE 7 via Auto Update/WSUS/SMS without going
thru the process recommended when doing a manual install?
Nope, just more of your trolling.
The best thing of all is, all your trolling comes from a Windows based
system.
A fortune 500 company will place "final" version of IE as the very top
priority for installing on the very first day of the release and for all
computers at once? For what justification?
And a company with 20K people can collect all user feedbacks within 1-2 days
of the release and summarized the final conclusion?
Well, nothing isn't possible in the world. But that's really amazing.
Actually we deployed it on the second day of release.
We decided that the security improvements in IE 7 lowered the overall attack
vectors by a factor of 3 from IE 6.x. That in itself was enough
justification.
We had also had a lot of reports about web sites not working, and when we
checked systems found other browsers installed than the corporate mandated
IE (due to the level of Web apps in use), so we decided to go with IE 7,
lock down via GPO and deploy.
All SMS pushes for new software get a "rate this upgrade" HTTP page that
opens during/following the initial install.
The best practice that myself and many others would use for that kind of
organization is going through section by section, so that any unexpected
issues can be controlled.
Going through by a full scale roll out for that kind of size all at once on
the second day for the security reason (by no means I don't think IE is not
a major improvement) is very amazing, and the CIO is very brave.
As I said, nothing isn't possible.
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