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How about using IE's Content Advisor? I have setup a similar case for one of our business groups which requires users to access only 3 sites (intranet at that!). S.Manaois.3

Ran into this thing some time ago. I created a local admin user and logged in using this account, launched the add/remove programs from the control panel and everything worked fine after that.

There is this sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com) tool called psloggedon which can be used to query the current loggedon user on a remote PC. Combine this with a batch script to query a list of all your PCs from a text file. psloggedon \\remotepc S.Manaois.3

Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com) has this tool called psinfo which can do a lot of queries (locally or remotely). For your requirement, you can use psinfo -h \\remote_pc S.Manaois.3

You can use the login ID of your users as the folder names. From a text file which lists all your user IDs, you can create a batch file to read this file and create each user's directory (using the FOR command). Then, from the same batch file, you can use XCACLS to set modify permission for each...

For a freebie solution, you can write a .cmd file that connects to your clients (using the FOR command) and executing the hotfix/patch using a remote execution tool, say for example, sysinternal's psexec (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml). Your .cmd file may look...