Joseph Fisher

As promised, here’s the link to my presentation at the 2012 Rock Eagle Computing Conference: Leveraging Active Directory Group Policy to Patch Common Windows Applications

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to post a comment on this page.

One person had asked about doing reporting via GPO. I’m not sure of what (if any) native AD support there is for doing inventory reporting. We ended up using OCS Inventory to track machines, and deployed the agent via GPO.

In the last few years, the Java developers changed how updates to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) are installed. Their installer first uninstalls any old version of Java on your computer, and then installs the latest version. This is a good practice, as it keeps outdated versions of JRE from making your system vulnerable to malware and known exploits. But what happens when it fails?

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