Re: [Security] Configuring Windows Update

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From: John Ives (jives_at_cchem.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 10:28:04 PDT


Eric,

I was wondering if you could clarify a couple of things about this service.

What testing/validation do you perform on the patches? E.G are you
automatically approving them, testing then approving, waiting a week to see
if there are any known problems then approving, etc.

What testing, if any have you done on the registry files that were put
up? Reading through them, I don't see any problems, but have they been
tested on Win2K/XP/03?

In no way should anyone take this as me being critical of this project as I
think it is a good idea. I just think there needs to be more information
provided.

John

At 08:00 PM 9/10/2003 -0700, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
>I've put together a quick how-to for configuring Windows Update. The page
>includes reg files for non-CalNetAD machines and information on linking to a
>GPO for CalNetAD members.
>
>http://windowsupdate.berkeley.edu/
>
>Windows Update will be discussed at the next CalNetAD Planning Committee
>Meeting. If there is urgent interest from the Planning Committee Members,
>it is possible to deploy the Windows Update GPO at the domain level.
>
>--
>Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
>Campus Active Directory Architect
>Central Computing Services
>University of California, Berkeley
>http://calnetad.berkeley.edu
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------
>Sent via the ucb-security mailing list.

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John Ives, GCWN, GSEC
Systems Administrator
College of Chemistry
(510) 643-1033

"If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, Then you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked." - Richard Clarke

Any opinions expressed are my own and not those of the Regents of the
University of California.

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