scheduling tasks a big pain

[zinco]

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i'm the sys-ad on a small (20 computer) network. it has become a huge pain to schedule system tasks (a/v, winbloz updates, defrag etc.) on the network. is there a way to automate it?

[obemon]

I'm currently testing Mickeysoft's Windows Live Onecare which pretty much has the automation feature to do the stuff you mentioned.

Windows Live OneCare: http://www.windowsonecare.com/
OneCare's Automatic tuneup: http://www.windowsonecare.com/prodin...cedetails.aspx

There's a 90day trial that you can download and after that, you can pay for a subscription which is valid for 3 PCs.

[zinco]

agreed.. but we run a small cyber-cafe and might not be able to afford that

any other solutions?

thanks for this pointer, though

[tokidoki]

umm... correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't windows have this deployment system that distributes updates to computers? google for it. i believe naa ni. it's what we use sa office. i"m not the sys-ad so i'm not sure how they do it.

[EarlZ]

Arnt sysads supposed to think a solution for that? or maybe sysad is a little big of a term for that?
why not use the Task scheduler built into windows.. cant be easier than that if you want updates set the specfic time of windows updates ( im assuming orig inyong windows ) for defrag use Perfect disk naa na siyay daily time schedules for AV use AVG free edition..

[zinco]

well yeah, the "sys-ad" is supposed to know all that. but i'm not a certified expert. i volunteered to take up this task as i was a bit more comfortable taking up this job than the rest.

i do use the task scheduler to schedule the tasks. but the problem comes when i have to add/delete/modify a task. i have to do it manually on ALL the computers. i discovered that it could be done over the network (instead of sitting on each machine physically), but it still takes a lot of time; if you consider all the things that need to be scheduled.

so i'm hoping that there is a solution to this kind of problem somewhere

tnks in advance.

[chocomai]

executive software's sitekeeper from the makers of diskeeper.

www.executive.com

... but if you want a free solution. stick to manual updates/maintennance. 20 ra bitaw na kabuok

[mbvales]

executive software's sitekeeper from the makers of diskeeper.

www.executive.com

... but if you want a free solution. stick to manual updates/maintennance. 20 ra bitaw na kabuok

Yeah...in addition, if u dont want to go physically sa imo mga workstation...use remote software.

[zinco]

what exactly is this remote software? is there an open source/shareware version that i could try?

[d_m00n_u]

vnc.. remote desktop.... etc...