windows updates

I work at a school with about 100 computers and seem to
spend almost all of my time installing windows updates. we
haven't enabled the automatic downloading bit because it
will send our downloads through the roof ($$$!).
Ideally, we want to somehow set it up so that each time a
computer logs on, it will see what updates it needs then
install them from a shared network drive from the server.
Is this possible?

merlin
Tue Sep 09 05:04:11 CDT 2003

> I work at a school with about 100 computers and seem to
> spend almost all of my time installing windows updates. we
> haven't enabled the automatic downloading bit because it
> will send our downloads through the roof ($$$!).
> Ideally, we want to somehow set it up so that each time a
> computer logs on, it will see what updates it needs then
> install them from a shared network drive from the server.
> Is this possible?

U could read a little about WSH (a windows scripting language),
which would simply check into a shared networked folder if
there are executables in it (updates downloaded by admins) and
if so, execute them (with parameters included in command files
and so on....)

This is only a base which you might begin work on. Many other
solutions available... but that one is cheap and will make learn
something ; )

.merlin