Keeping Computers Up To Date/Meeting notes for 2015-06-08

You thought it would never happen again, but we are in fact holding a second Nonprofit Sysadmin meeting this Monday, June 8. As we did introductions last month I tried to collect some themes as future discussion topics. Somewhat arbitrarily, I propose that Monday's meeting be about keeping systems (specifically desktops) up to date:

What tools do you use to keep desktops up to date? (Windows or Linux, or other)
What tools do you use for third party updates (Flash? Adobe Reader? Hateful Java?)
What tools do you use to monitor and ensure that updates are happening?
How do you prevent desktops from filling up with spyware and other nonsense?
For Windows people: what are you doing about the Windows 10 upgrade offer?

We will meet starting at 7pm at the main Working Centre building, 58 Queen Street South. Bill says that there is free parking kitty-corner from the Working Centre, on the other side of Charles.

If you know of interested sysadmins who might be interested in our conversation, please invite them to the meeting.

- Paul

Keeping Computers Up To Date/Meeting notes for 2015-06-08

Upcoming meeting topics

July: Administrating remote locations and people who work from home
August: All about VoIP

Here are the bullet-point notes I took from tonight's meeting. (Paul Nijjar)

Someone needs to remind the list about how to get information for logging into the wiki.

Meeting Notes

Updating Computers

Linux

Run apt-get manually
apticron: emails when there are updates
unattended-upgrades: does security updates automatically
apt-dater: run updates in parallel
rkhunter
chkrootkit

Windows

Download and ask to install
WSUS updates
Download updates and shut down

Third Party Updates

ninite.com
wpkg.org
chocolatey.org
wsusoffline.net

Restoring computers

DriveVaccine (SUCKS)
SteadyState (RIP)
SteadierState
Faronics DeepFreeze
Virtual terminal servers (Multipoint server)
Ubuntu with guest account
- PlayOnLinux: install Wine easier
DelProf

Keeping Computers Up To Date/Meeting notes for 2015-06-08

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