Twenty years ago, a system administrator was busy keeping out hackers on a daily basis. With relative success. Antivirus on all machines, firewall on the router – that usually did the trick. But these days we seem to be fighting a losing battle. The solution? Trust no one! For years we have been concerned with
With the help of Easy Software Deployment you can easily distribute existing scripts and have them executed. You can even choose whether you just want to run a script without installing a new application, or have a script run by a previously installed application. Read along. Situation 1: You only want to run a script,
Innovation is vital for any organisation, large or small. If you don’t innovate, you’ll be left behind. And what’s more, because everyone innovates, you want to be faster than your direct competitors. These three things can help you accelerate your innovation. 1. Create the right culture in your organisation Continuous innovation starts with the organisation
System administrators have been asking this question for decades. You might want to take a look at our series of blogs entitled what is software deployment. We’ve also written about installing patches, but today we want to get back to the core task: rolling out a software package on multiple computers. The basics are very
Software deployment tools There are many different ways to install and maintain software, which you can read about in the other three blogs of this series. But they all leave room for improvement. Which you already know, or you woudn’t be visiting our site or reading this blog. How much better can they be? It
Login scripts, GPOs or install it yourself? Software deployment tools are not standalone offerings. They are built using existing and new tools and methods. We hope our overview of how they are developed will help you understand their functionalities. And please keep in mind that we will only talk about deploying and managing Windows and
Slowed down by Sneakernet Rolling out, installing and managing software is a bit like a football championship game. You know it’s coming. You look forward to it and it’s just as exciting every time. But that’s where the similarities end. Because in software deployment, the computer always wins. And you may think that the advent
From mainframe to the Internet There aren’t many issues that give the average system administrator a headache — except for software deployment. Many ITers may even have nightmares about computers that just won’t update or load the right drivers. And when they finally do work, the users don’t even have the right permissions. Did you