[Casper] Software Update Policy

[Steve Wood]

Our policy is set to run every Friday at 12:30 pm while people are at  
lunch, and to pull from our internal SUS server.  We also have a  
policy that sets the SUS server every day in case a machine comes on  
net that has been off for awhile.

As for doing updates locally, I just remove the plist file, run the  
update, then put the plist back.  You just need to remove /Library/ 
Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist to the desktop and then put  
it back.  Beats leaving machines set to Apple for the default.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
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On Jul 2, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote:

> Yup. Talks to our own ASUS so we control the updates, we don’t  
> include Firmware updates since it requires being physically there.  
> But we also don’t set our update server as the default for machines  
> so you can still run Software Updates locally if you have admin to  
> do the Firmware updates from Apples server.
>
> Craig Ernst
> Systems Management & Configuration
> ----------------------------------
> University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
> Learning & Technology Services
> 105 Garfield Ave
> Eau Claire, WI 54701
> Phone: (715) 836-3639
> Fax: (715) 836-6001
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> ernstcs at uwec.edu
>
>
>
> On 7/2/08 2:51 PM, "Ryan Harter" <rharter at uwsp.edu> wrote:
>
> Has anyone set up a policy to run Software Updates when they are  
> available?  I was thinking of creating a smart group of all  
> computers that have 1 or more updates available, but it just  
> contains every computer in inventory.
>
> We user our own software update server, so none of the updates get  
> activated until we are sure they are safe, so I'm comfortable with  
> updating my machines automatically if there are updates available.
>
> Has anyone implemented this?
>
>
> Ryan Harter
> UW - Stevens Point
> Workstation Developer
> 715.346.2716
> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu <mailto:Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu>
>
>
>
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