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Newf !!!
University Setting. We have mostly a 2003/winxp pro network. We are
using SUS.
Campus is divided into two types of computers. 1 group being staff
machines on campus. Another group being student personal machines
that stay in residence just outside of campus but are connected to our
network for internet access. Most of which are WinXP Home edition. The
student machines are the ones I am concerned with right now. The staff
machines update fine.
I'll call the students machines, residence machines.
Every semester we get new students needing to get on the network to
get internet access. This is where the problem starts. these machines
are never up to date, and the second the go online, we get nailed with
virus's, and the network slows to a crawl until virus's are gone. We
need a way to have the students update their machines without relying
on the internet connection and ideally using the SUS server to save on
much needed internet BW.
These machines we do not have access to. They simply have an ip on our
network. some students may be smart enough to make sure the workgroup
is the same as ours, but honestly we need a method that is idiot
proof.
We thought about making a reg file that would change their registry to
point to our sus server for updates. Killer is once they import that
registry key, all works fine on campus, but when they go home for the
summer, those machines will still be trying to connect to our nework.
So we thought, make a 2nd registry key that they click on to set
things back to normal, but to be honest, we have zero faith in our
students remembering to do this.
Ideally, I'd like some sort of bat file, or client tool, or even a
command lline based thing that they could run when they need to update
windows. This tool would connect to our server, get the updates as
needed. This was solve everything, but I don't know of such a tool? or
even a web based option, where they go to our web page instead of the
microsoft one
is there one?
using SUS.
Campus is divided into two types of computers. 1 group being staff
machines on campus. Another group being student personal machines
that stay in residence just outside of campus but are connected to our
network for internet access. Most of which are WinXP Home edition. The
student machines are the ones I am concerned with right now. The staff
machines update fine.
I'll call the students machines, residence machines.
Every semester we get new students needing to get on the network to
get internet access. This is where the problem starts. these machines
are never up to date, and the second the go online, we get nailed with
virus's, and the network slows to a crawl until virus's are gone. We
need a way to have the students update their machines without relying
on the internet connection and ideally using the SUS server to save on
much needed internet BW.
These machines we do not have access to. They simply have an ip on our
network. some students may be smart enough to make sure the workgroup
is the same as ours, but honestly we need a method that is idiot
proof.
We thought about making a reg file that would change their registry to
point to our sus server for updates. Killer is once they import that
registry key, all works fine on campus, but when they go home for the
summer, those machines will still be trying to connect to our nework.
So we thought, make a 2nd registry key that they click on to set
things back to normal, but to be honest, we have zero faith in our
students remembering to do this.
Ideally, I'd like some sort of bat file, or client tool, or even a
command lline based thing that they could run when they need to update
windows. This tool would connect to our server, get the updates as
needed. This was solve everything, but I don't know of such a tool? or
even a web based option, where they go to our web page instead of the
microsoft one
is there one?
