A simple explanation - WSUS is Pull technoogy, SMS is Push technology.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Lawrence Garvin (MVP) asked:
| SMS = Systems Management Server.
|
| It is a comprehensive, expensive, and complicated software application
| design to assist enterprises in centralized management of systems.
|
| For more information, see
http://www.microsoft.com/sms
|
| It is different from WSUS in that WSUS has a very defined focus -- to
| make available operating system and application updates for Microsoft
| products, as approved by a centralized administrator, to allow
| clients to be updated.
|
| You do not have to purchase SMS2003 to use WSUS. WSUS is free.
| SMS2003 is quite expensive. SMS2003 would be overkill to achieve your
| stated goal of "viewing office patch status on all the workstations
| in your domain", but it would allow you do that.
|
|
| || HI,
||
|| Also, is anyone knows what is SMS 2003? How is it different from
|| WSUS? Do
|| we have to purchase SMS 2003? Can I achieve my goal using SMS 2003,
|| which is
|| only viewing office patch status on all the workstations on our
|| domain? It
|| will be nice if there is some report function.
||
|| Thanks
||
|| "Roy T" wrote:
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||| Hi Milly,
|||
||| Thank you very much for your reply! What free tool is available
||| from Microsoft? I know we can use WSUS to update office service
||| pack, but can it
||| views all the patch status for all workstations? I only want to
||| view all the
||| office 2003 patch status on all workstations on our domain, but not
||| to update
||| them yet.
|||
||| Thanks
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| For checking what versions of Office or their patch status, try
|||| Belarc advisor. You can also use the free Microsoft tool as well
|||| to check your
|||| inventory.
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|||| After furious head scratching, Roy T asked:
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||||| Hi everyone,
|||||
||||| I need to check what office 2003 Service Pack our network users
||||| got on their workstation. What free tool is available for me to
||||| do that and create a report of our of date system?
|||||
||||| Also what application allow me to deploy office update from the
||||| server rather than go to each and every single workstation?
|||||
||||| Thanks
