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

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Keeping Computers Up To Date

Date
Monday, 8 June 2015 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Event Announcement 
Keeping Computers Up To Date/Meeting Announcement 2015-06-08
Location
The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener Map

Updating Desktops

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



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
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