In "Scripting a Corporate Update System," October 2002, InstantDoc ID 26360, I began to discuss how you can use scripts to build a large solution that keeps your corporate clients up-to-date. I explained the architecture of the corporate update system and described several scripts that reside in the central script repository—the server-side component of the corporate update system. Clients use these scripts to perform software updates. The corporate update system uses a client targetter script to upload to the clients necessary files that instruct the clients to download update scripts from the central script repository. This month, let's look at the client-side building blocks of the corporate update system that you use to run the central-script-repository update scripts.
Client-Side Files
As I mentioned last time, the corporate update system adds to a special Active Directory (AD) group each client (e.g., workstation, server) that successfully runs the client targetter script. After the corporate update system adds a client to the AD group, it uploads to the client the first two files that Table 1 lists. . . .
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