Feburary office updates

[Deep]

We are in a situation where the SMS Administrator quit on us and we have no
clue and the training for SMS 2003 start in March 2008 in our city. We have
to push Feburary Office updates to both windows 2000/XP machines and we have
approx 700 machines. We don't have ITMU and WSUS but only SMS 2003 server.

Someone please send me a very simple step-by-steps instructions on how to
push these updates out?

I have done the following so far:

Created a collections of all these updates MS08-001...etc
Created a packages/Microsoft Security Updates/Programs/MS08_001 ....etc.
Advertisement MS08-001...etc

Now how do I push it to all 700 machines and how can i tell if it's working.

Thanks a lot for any help to show me a light at the end of the tunnel?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Deep,

You may want to also post this in the Microsoft System Manager Server (SMS) discussion group using the link below.

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We are in a situation where the SMS Administrator quit on us and we have no
clue and the training for SMS 2003 start in March 2008 in our city. We have
to push Feburary Office updates to both windows 2000/XP machines and we have
approx 700 machines. We don't have ITMU and WSUS but only SMS 2003 server.

Someone please send me a very simple step-by-steps instructions on how to
push these updates out?

I have done the following so far:

Created a collections of all these updates MS08-001...etc
Created a packages/Microsoft Security Updates/Programs/MS08_001 ....etc.
Advertisement MS08-001...etc

Now how do I push it to all 700 machines and how can i tell if it's working.

Thanks a lot for any help to show me a light at the end of the tunnel? >>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sms.misc
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.sms.misc

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com