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I need to get my Microsoft patches and updates under control. Ideally, I’d like to patch third party products like Adobe as well. I’m a one man show here with about 80 machines.

I’m wondering what folks are using these days for patch management? Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thank you.

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WSUS? SCCM ? www.shavlik.com ? ninite.com ?

For 80 it’s tough. not big enough for stuff like SCCM, but just big enough to be a pain in the neck lol

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Maybe also look into PDQ deploy.

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WSUS to handle windows products (free in a sense)

PDQ Deploy to handle anything else(very cheap)

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Pdq Deploy works greats. Used it to deploy Cryptoprevent to a 100  users

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I actually already have PDQ Deploy installed and have used it a hand full of times.

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Then setup a WSUS server and you got everything covered.

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We use SCCM which uses WSUS to deliver the patches for MS. When a new Adobe, Chrome, Firefox, Ad nauseam I just update the software deployment package in SCCM and deploy to our systems. I know a lot of smaller offices use WSUS and then something like PDQ Deploy for third party stuff. There was another tool I used a while back for third party stuff, it was free, I am forgetting the name Though.

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Hey Support Guy- make sure you check out Radia for your patch management needs. Radia’s cloud-hosted offering will be a good fit for your 80 PC setup. With Radia, you’ll be able to deploy MS as well as third-party patches (e.g. Adobe, Java), and define a desired state for PCs with required software, patch levels, etc. It then works to continuously align the state of endpoints to the policies, automatically.

I linked to some information above, but please let me know if you have any other questions!

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Thanks everyone, I just built out my new patch server. WSUS in installed and now working on configuring it.

Anyone have a nice WSUS configuration guide? Video’s?