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Objectives
The main objective of this project was to develop a utility providing the
remote settings management for the Microsoft Automatic Update Client for a
group of client machines. This utility had to be implemented as a separate GUI
application and integrated with the enterprise network management system.
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Results
The developed Automatic Update Client Management Utility has a user friendly
GUI and allows to set any settings for the Automatic Update Client. This
program can run in two modes:
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passing the settings to the network management system database;
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connecting to a remote client and defining the custom settings
directly.
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The program modes are set via command line parameters.
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Technical peculiarities
The Automatic Update Client settings are stored in the Windows system registry.
The registry key values are set by the network management program for a group
of remote client machines. After the settings have been entered by the
administrator, the utility generates a ".reg" file and distributes it to the
remote clients. Then (immediately or after reboot) the special
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tool is run on each client PC and populates the registry with the settings from
the ".reg" file. For a single remote client, the Automatic Update Client
settings may be set directly by connecting to the registry of the remote
machine. The settings are written directly to the remote registry, and then the
Automatic Update Client service is restarted in order to make the settings come
into effect.
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