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Our client has 100+ computer in the network and they are switching to Windows 7 next month.

Our software is based on SQL 2008 and .NET 1.1 binaries. They requirement is to create an incremental auto-update solution to avoid Windows Update and has the possibility to react fast and efficient for new security updates (ie. SQL Server 2008 R2 CU7).

I'm sure that the community has more than one great solution for that but I'm not able to found it.

Our idea is this:

  • A windows service runs as Local admin in the background
  • It watches a network drive, if there is a new version (a new folder, lets say) it will run the content, possibly an PowerShell file
  • If an older notebook comes into play, it must be upgraded from the last known update

For example the update directory is that:

Directory1
  SQL 2k8 update 1
Dircetory2
  Our software update 1
Directory3
  SQL 2k8 update 2
Dircetory4
  SQL 2k8 update 4

After every successful update the client saves the last version (for example "I'm up-to-date to Directory4").

This is just an idea any others are welcome!

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closed as not a real question by techie007, Karan, Luke, 8088, ChrisF Nov 22 '12 at 21:57

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