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Sirri
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      08-20-2007
Dear all,

I have a very annoying problem in our company. Our staff is using
windows XP computers and it seems that microsoft automatic update
can't update the computers when they are logged in with their power
user accounts.

This means that I will have to go trough all the computers once in a
while and update computers with administrator rights. Our IT-support
claims that there is nothing that can be done about it.

So my question is can this be true? Is there really know way to have
automatic updates installed without me logging in with administrator
rights?

This is really annoying and takes lot of time, so help is GREATLY
appreciated.

Best regards,
Sirri

 
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Joe
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      08-20-2007
Not sure if this will help you at all but what I have done on 30 clients was
to set the group policy on the machine itself, I seet the automatic updates
to 4, the update frequency to 20 hours and the auto update immediate
installation to enable. With those settings the machines maintain the updates
no matter who is or was logged on. It does not appear that it hase booted
anyone off, it appears that the update and reboot happens when the machine is
idle so you should make sure no one leaves unsaved work open.

Joe

"Sirri" wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a very annoying problem in our company. Our staff is using
> windows XP computers and it seems that microsoft automatic update
> can't update the computers when they are logged in with their power
> user accounts.
>
> This means that I will have to go trough all the computers once in a
> while and update computers with administrator rights. Our IT-support
> claims that there is nothing that can be done about it.
>
> So my question is can this be true? Is there really know way to have
> automatic updates installed without me logging in with administrator
> rights?
>
> This is really annoying and takes lot of time, so help is GREATLY
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Sirri
>
>

 
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Ottmar Freudenberger
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      08-21-2007
"Sirri" <> schrieb:

> I have a very annoying problem in our company. Our staff is using
> windows XP computers and it seems that microsoft automatic update
> can't update the computers when they are logged in with their power
> user accounts.


Hm, you may find http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328010 useful.

Bye,
Freudi
 
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