Best (simplist) way to update 100 pc's 10 servers

Hello All,
I inherited a setup that has 100 pc's win 2K & xp pro.
8 win 2K, and 2 win 2K3 servers.
Short of using MS Update, how would you go about rolling out 100 updates
(very few have been applied).
I guess to start I should segment the servers & the pc's they service into
high & low priority as far as who can aford to be down if something
unexpected occurs.
Once decided I would start with the low priority (areas that could afford
down time if something occured) and apply the updates. Here is my question,
Do i set say the 20 pc's in the 1'st group to auto update on? Do I use a GPO
to control what pc's in the 1'st group get updated & when? If the latter are
there any KB article that have info on the subject.

Thanks for any thoughts.
MMJII

See:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...oads/WSUS.mspx


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"MMJII" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello All,
> I inherited a setup that has 100 pc's win 2K & xp pro.
> 8 win 2K, and 2 win 2K3 servers.
> Short of using MS Update, how would you go about rolling out 100 updates
> (very few have been applied).
> I guess to start I should segment the servers & the pc's they service into
> high & low priority as far as who can aford to be down if something
> unexpected occurs.
> Once decided I would start with the low priority (areas that could afford
> down time if something occured) and apply the updates. Here is my
> question,
> Do i set say the 20 pc's in the 1'st group to auto update on? Do I use a
> GPO
> to control what pc's in the 1'st group get updated & when? If the latter
> are
> there any KB article that have info on the subject.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> MMJII
>
>

Thanks I'll check it out.
"Danny Sanders" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> See:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...oads/WSUS.mspx
>
>
> hth
> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>
> "MMJII" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Hello All,
> > I inherited a setup that has 100 pc's win 2K & xp pro.
> > 8 win 2K, and 2 win 2K3 servers.
> > Short of using MS Update, how would you go about rolling out 100 updates
> > (very few have been applied).
> > I guess to start I should segment the servers & the pc's they service
into
> > high & low priority as far as who can aford to be down if something
> > unexpected occurs.
> > Once decided I would start with the low priority (areas that could
afford
> > down time if something occured) and apply the updates. Here is my
> > question,
> > Do i set say the 20 pc's in the 1'st group to auto update on? Do I use a
> > GPO
> > to control what pc's in the 1'st group get updated & when? If the latter
> > are
> > there any KB article that have info on the subject.
> >
> > Thanks for any thoughts.
> > MMJII
> >
> >
>
>