Authorized Update

[snootalope]

1. I'm the Domain Admin

2. 50 XP hosts

3. Each week we run an update for AV. It has to run an executible to update.

4. When I make the users logging into the machine to be part of the Power Users, it says you must be an Administrator to run (this is when I try to run the update).

5. I don't want the user's to be Admins.. How can I make the update run on the local machine without them being admins?
Thanks for any help! "tis better to be thought of as a fool then open your mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain

"I should of been a doctor.." Me

 

[cybersaur]

depending on the required level of user interaction you might be able to set your .exe to run via task scheduler. log in as admin to setup up the scheduler and it should run at the times you specify regardless of permissions of user logged in.
alternatively, we run InoculateIT by computer associates. fantastic prg! it can be remotely administered and the virus definitions can be set to d/l to a server then the client machines transparently acquire the new defs from that server with zero user interaction. it also locks out the user's ability to disable/remove the antivirus software.
i highly recommend it!

 

[snootalope]

Thats what we are using!!! I'm guessing that we need a server edition on the server constantly running and doing the updating.. That's what I'll do!

Is that what you are doing? Or are you just designating one PC as a primary distribution for other PC's? "tis better to be thought of as a fool then open your mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain

"I should of been a doctor.." Me

 

[GlenJohnson]

I'm guessing cybersaur is running it on a server. We have Trend, and at midnight, it goes out and looks for new updates. Then when users logon in the morning, their pc's ping trend, compare the versions, if it's new it's installed on their local machine. Pretty nifty considering all Trend does is throws a simple batch file in the profiles tab of the users that says run trend.exe. Don't know how InoculanIT works, but Trend is nice. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


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