<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In that case, how do you throttle it on the server side? We are using internet SUSes (although we really want to get a cascading SUS setup, so we can set on one server which updates need to go out, and which ones should be avoided.)</div><div><br></div><div>I don't suppose anyone has a way to multicast software updates? </div><div><br></div><div>Why the sudden interest in software updates? Well, we normally go with the policy that computers that are on our network will be updated when they are imaged each year, and beyond that, few things are critical enough to warrant it. Unfortunately, we believe that upgrading all of our clients will resolve some issues we've been having, and, so, we are updating. [BTW, has anyone seen a good writeup on the AFP bug that 10.5.6 is supposed to address?]</div><div><br></div><div>Clinton</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 2-Apr-09, at 10:25 AM, Miles Leacy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Clinton Blackmore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clinton.blackmore@westwind.ab.ca">clinton.blackmore@westwind.ab.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Wait a second--Is it possible for a laptop, closed and in a cart, to run scripts and such? If so, will it go back to sleep when it is done, and is heat an issue? (The carts are ventilated, mind you.)</div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I haven't done this in a while, so I don't recall. It's definitely something worth testing.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>Also, is it possible to throttle software update? If I wanted my clients to download the updates while the computers are in use (and not hammer the network too hard), is there any way to do that (preferably on the client side)?<br> </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know and, in fact, I think you can't throttle from the client side. You can throttle from the server side if you're running your own internal SUS. I recommend an internal SUS to anyone who manages Macs. It's relatively simple to set up, and it lets you control if and when updates get applied, which is important because Apple updates can sometimes break customizations and/or software that doesn't follow Apple's development rules (such as Microsoft and Adobe titles).</div> <div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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