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Product
Overview
Service Pack Manager enables system administrators to fix
security vulnerabilities and stability problems in Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 and additional Microsoft products. The increasing
number of viruses such as Code Red and Nimda worms and
continuous discoveries of security flaws in Microsoft
products mandate cost-effective security measures, provided
by Service Pack Manager, to protect both servers and
workstations on the enterprise networks.
Service Pack Manager is an automated security utility
that allows an IT professional to remotely detect, track,
monitor, and install Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Service Packs and
Hotfixes on the enterprise networks from a central console.
Remote inventory, research, and deployment of the security
vulnerabilities patches and stability updates makes Service
Pack Manager highly cost-effective tool when used on the
enterprise LANs and WANs. More importantly, it makes the
task of maintaining security of the large networks viable.
You can use the Manual Update Costs spreadsheet
to estimate the costs of maintaining the security and stability of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machines
manually, based on the network size, labor costs, update frequency, and other enterprise-related factors.
Service Pack Manager provides the solutions to many problems that you are challenged with while
trying to keep your network secure:
- It provides easy-to-use detection of the hotfix
installation on remote computers. The installation status of hundreds of
hotfixes can be detected in minutes on any number of remote computers, and
presented in easy-to-read report. The alternative of manual discovery of
installation of multiple hotfixes on hundreds of computers is simply not
viable.
- It provides easy-to-use Service Pack and hotfix
installation. Multiple hotfixes can be simultaneously installed on
multiple machines within minutes. The alternative of manual installation
of Service Packs and multiple hotfixes on multiple machines is not viable,
especially considering the fact that it requires to physically attend
every target computer, whether it is located on the same building floor,
another building, or a different geographical location.
- It provides capability of detecting a particular set
of hotfixes that might have critical security importance to a particular
Windows platform. For example a hotfix that prevents Denial of Service
attack on Windows NT/2000 servers running Internet Information Services
(IIS).
- It eliminates the need to write time-consuming and
complicated scripts to perform the management tasks involved in managing
Service Packs and hotfixes on the networked machines.
Read the detailed description of the product main
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