On 26/01/2010 11:09, Mike Collett wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I guess this will probably ring a bell with a lot of people.
>
> We find ourselves continually updating Plugs such as Adobe Reader,
> Shockwave, Flash, Sun Java and Real Player on our Staff computers.
> By the time we have tested, packaged and deployed a new version there
> is another one out and we have to start all over again.
>
> Can you tell me what approach your institution has taken to this
> problem? Are there anything that will help from a technical point of
> view. Or is the answer down to a policy decision?
Generally speaking, we include current versions of such plugins,
readers, etc, when building new base images over the summer. Thereafter,
we stick with these versions until the next time we need to build new
images, and don't move to new versions unless there is a compelling
reason to do so.
We also don't push new versions to existing staff computers - typically
we'll make new versions of, say, acrobat reader, available for users to
install if they want it, but not update it automatically.
Mike
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