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We use Cisco VPN and I was wondering if I could use this to push out
updates to certain groups or users. I saw where you can update client
software but is that the VPN Client software??? I am using this in a
County Government and we have rural Fire Departments that connect to us
using VPN. I administer their reporting software and we receive .exe's
for hotfixes etc every now and then. I was wanting to push those out
through VPN when they login if that's possible. I also saw the FTP and
TFTP feature but that's doesn't really help. Anything will help.

Thanks

Chris

In article < .com>,
Chris Stanley <> wrote:
:We use Cisco VPN and I was wondering if I could use this to push out
:updates to certain groups or users. I saw where you can update client
:software but is that the VPN Client software???

Yes.

:I am using this in a
:County Government and we have rural Fire Departments that connect to us
:using VPN. I administer their reporting software and we receive .exe's
:for hotfixes etc every now and then. I was wanting to push those out
:through VPN when they login if that's possible.

The feature is not made for that.

".exe" and "hotfixes" implies Windows software, probably with them
connecting to a Windows server. I seem to recall that with Windows
Server there is a way to set a command to be executed at login time.
That command could probably initiate the necessary transfers.

[We are able to do this sort of thing with Novell, which
makes it clear that the login script will be executed from the
user's machine, not from the server. We would do things like check
for the existance of a key file and copy in the update and initiate
it if the key file didn't exist.]
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Are we *there* yet??

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Stanley <> writes:

Chris> We use Cisco VPN and I was wondering if I could use this to
Chris> push out updates to certain groups or users. I saw where
Chris> you can update client software but is that the VPN Client
Chris> software???

IIRC, this is only for pushing software updates to the VPN3002
hardware client. I don't believe it can push PC software.

Andy


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This is not a Cisco question (since the cisco software
can't help).

Look in some of the microsoft.public newsgroups.
Maybe search Google Groups for
[microsoft.public unattended software install]
["microsoft.public" unattended software install]
without the brackets

Look at login scripts (if you actually do a network login).
I suspect but do not know for sure that
our VPN users log in locally to the PC and
then just mount drives. I do not believe that
this invokes the network login script.

Also:-
Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) ships as part of Windows
2000 Server.
Microsoft SUS Microsoft Software Update Services


There is also microsoft SMS, I think that it is big bucks
and may be obsolete anyway.